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Nothing could be simpler than lever drag - there's just an A/R drive and a clamp drag on the lever. No clutch - for freespool, you simply back off the lever. For casting, you use the same lever for your casting brake. There are many good choices out there, including Avet. I have USA-made Seigler SGN in my near offshore trolling niche. The spool shape on this reel, and most lever drags, does a really good job of laying a tight LW to the left - if you want to keep up with it, you simply thumb the wide LW to the right.

The test is catching fish on the far channel slope.

I don't think my dad ever walked out of Academy without a spool of 25-lb mono/fluoro. Made respooling easy for me. Take off just enough line to top it with 12-lb fluoro working line, and he was in business.

After you get your spool mass trim, the last place to shed inertia is spool bearings. The heirachy improving as you go down the list: hybrid ceramic unshielded hybrid ceramic low viscosity bearing oil (you're up to about 6% cast distance improvement here) microbearings - these come in various forms with load ranges. Hedgehog's load ratings fit well here Air Ceramic and Air HD (comparable to KTF/IXA MBS) are good compromises between microbearings and full-size. 10% cast distance improvement is nominal. You can see Air BFS isn't rated above 3/8 oz. More exotic are double-row bearings, such as KTF/IXA and MC-Squared. Casting light weights, only the inner ball row spins. Casting big weights and big drive loads, the outer ball row spins with big load range. With Air BFS bearings and double-row bearings I've measured 15% cast distance improvement. One thing's for sure - I don't think I'm clairvoyant.

Even Wikipedia asks to be corrected when they get it wrong. Inertia is resistance to change. Moment of inertia (second moment of area) is a geometric property. Moment of inertia applies to bending structures, such as a rod or a bridge beam, which don't rotate like a rotating mass on an axle and bearings - both rotate small increments under torsion - something your loaded spool isn't going to do in a measurable way.

AI Misnomer - Moment of Inertia is a structural geometric property, and has nothing to do with this discussion. Rotational inertia is closer to correct - resistance of rotating mass to change editorial comment - unless you filter AI with Actual I, you don't get Any I

This is why braid spools are BFS spools - everything is lighter and improves your top-end performance if you do it right. Is there any reason you need more than 30-lb breaking strength (rhetorical question) I.

There are 279 matches as recent as February in TT Classifieds. http://www.tackletour.net/search.php?keywords=Ballistic&fid[0]=7 NIB sold for $180. You're also likely to find the best market for OG Daiwa there.

With a power boat, you have the luxury of running to sample 3 or 4 different spots in a morning. A kayak gets you into water most power boats can't run, but you're stuck with today's plan. The normal drill is paddle to upwind structure around tide timing, then drift-fish home. So successful kayak fishing means reading charts, wind, and tide, and planning around the firepit the night before - why we love the fall rodeo - get this many smart fishermen together, etc. What you see in our paddle trails: Estes on SSW shifting to prevailing SSE. A normal morning paddle trail is about 10 mi, why we like old-school wind-slippery glide boats for inshore. Riding the SE wind home.

Proper use of drag grease is basically to remove everything you put on - the thinnest possible residue film is all you need. The most important places to get the grease are the I.D. and O.D. edges of the drag washer thickness, where the mainshaft and gear recess contact them. Handy photo of carbontex Drag washer composition that should be run dry w/o grease is red or blue corundum, like this red Daiwa washer (came out of the reel covered in oil, and I dried it using alcohol soak).

https://www.ebay.com/itm/115263654312 the right drag washers - good vendor

For all that money, Arch has to come together sometime. Ryan Niblett also scored his 2nd kick return TD of the season - speed and balance over the top.

@TnRiver46 Hey, did you see Arch earn his $6M yesterday? He made 3 pinch 20-yd passes that were delivered like a baby with the OU line collapsing on his head. And normally, I'd still rather watch Diego Pavia attack the game - just not Last Saturday.

outer diameter of spool rim This is a 30-mm Ray's Studio spool for Daiwa CT

@F14A-B Safe buoyancy is 325 lbs total capacity (designed by a naval architect). I've turtled twice in 20 years of salt kayaking, and we've retreated home in 35-kt gale gusts when NWS let us down on hourly prediction. The only things I've lost were a neck knife from a neck sheath, and a water bottle. With drift sock deployed on trolley to stern, you can ride out anything. If you see it coming, a gale can be fun. Most of our flats fishing is less than 3' deep (less than 18"), but you still cross 15' channels, and need the skill to glide over your righted hull, and maintain balance while you rotate yourself longways. Of course all my rods are tethered, milk crate tied into sternwell and covered with netting. My lap hatch also carries a giant sponge in net bag that collects the inside wash through the hatch seals. If you go offshore, a hand-bilge pump is a necessity. - swivel hook glides on trolley line The most dangerous point of wind is a beam reach, so you have to set up a tack then run to get across 30-kt beam winds.

@F14A-B I have 3 Pelicans in my latch hatch, tethered together with salty seizing and grabbed by fixed biner inside the lap hatch. Larger back-up box, smaller wallet, keys and back-up lighter (camera battery), and smallest cigar box. Last year, Nina dropped her lighter in the bay, and asked if I had a spare - not only do I have a spare torch, but it has neck lanyard and built-in punch. She went home and ordered 3. Bow hatch has dry bags for multi-piece back-up rods, fly rod, and fly reel/box fanny pack.

To me, I-shaped knobs don't make sense, and to each his own. The giant StudioComposite knobs are lighter weight than the stock Daiwa rubber I-knobs. The big carbon-tube knobs give you both narrow-feel and palm-grab for big torque. The S/C knobs on their handles use 5-mm (Ti) spindle and bearings. Hedgehog is out of the S/C 4-mm knobs that fit Shimano-A/Daiwa-S. Earlier, they had an exclusive run of champagne gold knobs that match my Steez. I bought these knobs for the champagne gold caps, and stashed the knobs - they found later use on Ryoga. Loaded Steez was also in my back-up box in lap hatch, but I'm not fond of taking the magnesium reel out on kayak - no worries when it's sealed in Pelican box. .

that's 1016 (otherwise, larger 1500 sizes go to 36-mm spool), and the Basura brass main matched a stainless pinion - I'm happy, though gear swap did cost me the drag-clicker, which I never depend on - can't hear in coast wind, and I can feel the impact of drag pay through the rod. The old alloy pinion is laying on the frame to compare the teeth size with the installed Hyperdrive gears. The reason for new magseal was the prior salt use on the reel - on every bearing, the copper shield had oxidized black - whatever is inside, I want out of my reel (though every old bearing spun perfectly). I began with a $200 Yahoo buy, so I went through parts lists on Plat.jp and ordered everything I would need - I had room to work with that starting price.

@F14A-B - Thanks, it has KTF Kahen spool, ZPI drag star, and I bought the used reel with Avail handle - I swapped-in the StudioComposite Daiwa-S knobs for worn Daiwa I-rubber, and they were already in my parts bin. Full rebuild with new MagSeal bearings, and I swapped the alloy gears with brass Hyperdrive from '21 Basura. If you notice, all my baitcasters swap Daiwa 34-mm floating spool, so back-up box in my lap hatch carried loaded 1000S-Boost-SV spool to swap into any of them (a couple more spools in my leader kit at RV). Ryoga is my favorite Daiwa reel - palms nicely w/ my long fingers, but it also reaches the spool best on the half-offset rod grip.

Posted my last week fishing report on Other Species page, and two friends asked me for a list of combos and lures. My OP on TT forum also got a gear call-out. So I figured this forum is slow and could use a gear expose of same old rods and reels. I used Zillion/ Omen Green for perfect flats drifting; PE#1.2 MinnowZ and Supra 65 Mixed with Kurodai Baitfinesse matched with Silver Wolf, PE#0.8 Also used this for Ima K-Ta jerkbait and suspending Ima Koume on the B&R sailboat channel for sand trout, and could cast the 1/4 oz across the channel. I took Ryoga/ Slow Taper, PE#1.2 into mud marshes for bunny shrimp, and it worked wonderfully - just no fish to catch. Got in a few casts with Mini-surf/ Seabed at Little Cut tide pass on a beer-thirty stretch, but no fish. never took out on the boat, CV-Z/ Headhunters 1800. Target would have been Spook Jr. and TSL Grasswalker Never took out SLPW-Z/ Daiwa Black Label ML. This is a good all-around combo for both flats and sloughs.

Tom, the baitfinesse rods that load under 1/8 oz and turn big fish are made by Abu - all grades.

@DitchPanda I got the last finger from that bottle on Saturday night. (Whit even defended it for me when Josh wanted it) Maverick Triticale is over the top. And the story is funny. They ordered rye for a batch, and they received triticale. So they made mash with it and distilled whiskey, and now it's become their top seller. Regards worth a ps - how like minds get together - Whit brought the Maverick Triticale all the way from Lewisville. We go back over 20 years, meeting on a cigar forum, and fishing together with my dad. A spring day, Whit and Lewisville friends, me and my daughter, in a complete random "accident" launched together at B&R sailboat channel. Josh met Whit in a Rockport bar 15 years ago talking fishing, and there they came up with the plan for the annual Redfish RoundUp. Whit has also fished with Josh's dad. Josh and I met on TKF forum - we think alike and fish alike, we need to fish together. ______________________________________________ one more photo to add Out of the ice water and into the fire. Today, shared my redfish fillets with my 96-y-o dad, and a pot of dirty rice.

Thanks - I left out this sunrise on Estes Stevo on his Revo Taking off down the dredged channel into B&R Whit and Andy fishing the dredged channel before entering the expansive flat Steve launching to cross Aransas Channel to Lighthouse Lakes Marker 1 pass a couple of other launch photos, but I managed to get in most of the good 40 frames/ 165

I wouldn't have picked these dates for a salt trip, full-moon malaise, summer-pattern calm. But these are the dates that our hosts Josh and sister Nina could plan their vacations, and I wouldn't have missed this for the world. I got to prove my axiom that the place, the times, the friends are always more important than the fish. It was strange how hard 7 seasoned coast kayakers fished over four days to bring home so few legal fish. All said, I had a wonderful time - the paddles were beautiful, and the friends were great fun. Wednesday kick-off, we split the group between 3 flats to find fish, and everyone was shut out. Stevo and I took Estes for the best tide fall of the trip, and we found bait where they should be at the outsides of the cuts. We found no gamefish but serious dinks, a pattern that clobbered all on the first day. Josh and Nina made up for the day with a banner kick-off meal of 100 fried shrimp, oysters and hush puppies, cucumber salad, roasted corn salad, For appetizers, Josh fried up Mama Flowers wonderful shrimp egg rolls, and Dale brought amazing Billy's Boudin and green-onion sausage from home. We had great evenings at the firepit - here were our tickets, and there weren't 3 fingers in any of them by Saturday night. (I brought the Nashville Barrel Rye) Thursday, we fished every meter of Brown & Root flats, and Nina scored our first slot redfish, and Andy scored an upper-slot trout. After fishing all the way north and then all the way south, Whit and I were so disgusted, we paddled to the sailboat channel, staked for beer-thirty, and threw finesse jerkbaits to sand trout. I caught seven of these, which would have been enough for ceviche if I had thought about it. Then a dolphin shut us down. Friday, the E wind was coming back. Whit took Andy and Dale back to Swan Lake to get even with the redfish that PO'd him on Wednesday. The rest of us launched at the end of Port Bay (gun) Club Road. Josh and Nina took off west, to join us later, while Steve and I headed east toward Italian Bend. I embarrassed myself drifting Italian bend, losing a keeper red and two keeper trout at the boat. When Josh and Nina fished around to join us, I followed Nina deep into the mud marsh sloughs. I really wanted to fish this slough with lower water than when I first fished it 2 years ago. We covered some tight trails and wide lakes, but found no redfish. Noteworthy, the duck blinds in the sloughs were connected by boardwalks for the gun club. Beer thirty break before the paddle in. Saturday was a pick between Lighthouse Lakes and crossing the ferry to East Flats. Karma led us to the former. Our regatta entering Marker 1 pass into the lakes. The spectacular skies were a 3-hour monsoon over East Flats. Last year, I took a recovery day to fish the two closest lakes. This year, I followed Josh through the mangrove sloughs to fish the last two farthest lakes. First three drifts gave me a dink trout, keeper trout and under-slot red After a harder push to the last big lake, I got a keeper red and just undersized. In 3 drifts here, Josh caught 8 under-slot reds. When we met up with Nina, already a long paddle through the sloughs, it was still a 20-min paddle to get back in. Josh berated my stringer fish, but the Game Warden waiting on the beach approved. Our GPS paddle trail across Lighthouse Lakes and back. Josh's fantastic shrimp and crab boil is always our Saturday night party. Andy and I contributed our spec fillets to Saturday's ceviche All our teams lost Saturday afternoon, and I was even wearing my Vandy tee shirt. All alarms were turned off for Sunday morning pack-out.

ok, fair enough - on your reel, the handle screws directly into the main gear. This older schematic still applies for the A/R and option function. p/n 36 is a roller bearing inside a bracket that gets pushed off and pulled back on spindle sleeve #37 by A/R cam #44. The basic difference you feel is the friction of the grease in the roller bearing. I wouldn't recommend schtupping with the grease - the right viscosity is important for both functions of the roller bearing - both rolling and Stopping. If too much low-viscosity oil gets inside the roller bearing, it can lock in both directions or completely slip in pay. ____________________________________________________________________ The Daiwa roller bearing will match this Tica, made for grease in the off-shelf roller bearing, and a drop of oil on the spindle sleeve. F-No, Shimano roller element A/R clutch from Stella is a complicated design made to use viscious oil - a more difficult, higher shear-failure solution to the same basic function. First A/R roller used in a reel, 1955 Precisionbilt Mosquito perfect-pattern fly reel.