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If you plant bamboo in your yard, you will hate yourself, your neighbors will join in, and the following generations in your neighborhood will keep up the hate tradition. It's impossible to remove once it's rooted. I did notice in Grant Petersen's April bicycle blog, that he owns the same-period Leonard as my c. 1915 Fairy Catskill https://www.rivbike.com/blogs/grant-petersens-blog/april-blahg?mc_cid=9e74c24a26&mc_eid=68b5c9e546

A few more wood plugs to show from Japan - this group is smaller, 2-3 inches, and 3/16 to 3/8 oz. On top, Zeal Plank prop-tail and Zeal Light Risk lip-crank Two dog-walkers, Zeal terror 35 and Bass Pond Keel Chico. This is the Keel Chico again, which I photographed next to another finesse plug I really like, the flap-tail Chico Frog. If you're wondering how I find these on Yahoo. http://oh-chuck.com/ http://sawamura777.com/?pid=171932424 I will go to a site like Oh! Chuck or Sawa, find something that interests me, toggle back and forth between English and Japanese on google translate. Copy the Japanese ideograms, and search that on Yahoo - if you try searching English words on Yahoo, you get a lot of goop in return. Buying also requires a broker, such as noppin.com, ZenMarket, or Rinkya.

I can't believe no one has answered rainbow trout. Dumbest fish out there, and one of the prettiest. In spite of "wild trout only" testaments and snob appeal, the wilder, the dumber. You can catch them on spinners, jigs, corn. I taught my (then) young daughters to fly fish by having them sit in my lap to tie fake corn kernel flies, and chumming stocked trout with corn.

Stevo (middle) turned this up the other day, scanned and e-mailed to all interested parties. Rockport 1987. Three young salts who think they're something on a stick.

That's even better for Setting your drag, to 1/4 of your weakest link, line or leader test, or rod max line rating. Max drag doesn't really mean anything, unless it won't reach the number above.

Wrong knot - try an improved Allbright.

How about go big or stay at home? This big thing is actually lighter than the stock handle because of carbon weave structure, titanium spindles, and carbon knob tubes. Several members on the forum have replaced their knobs with preferences like cork and wood. The tiny I-shaped rubber knobs on stock handles are actually pretty heavy.

not sure which question you want answered, but here are all the spool options for your Revros LT, available from JDM. https://www.hedgehog-studio.co.jp/product/4747 Consider that Japan offers 5 times as many different models of the same reel, vs. the few deep spool models that are imported to USM. If your Revros is 1000, JDM offers LT1000S spool with 100-m 2.5-lb mono super shallow capacity. Might also want to consider that with the current exchange rate, all of Japan is still on sale for 20% off.

Holy cow, I had SP with Air bearings and threadline braid next to Super Duty with mono backing arbor and 20-lb 832 (twice the diameter of the SP threadline braid). The Super Duty mag brake consistently cast 1/8 oz 20% farther than the SP centrifugal, trying to catch up by gradually reducing the centrifugal all the way to backlash. I ran across this difference on the water when an over-slot red broke off the leader on my SP, noticed on the water the SD out-distanced it with the same lure, then went home to my metered back acre and proved it. People who can't cast without jerk or are throwing big weights will always like centrifugal better. Centrifugal prevents start-up backlash, and always costs distance at mid cast compared to properly set mag. No, the physics has been worked out. Mag brake backs off as spool slows, centrifugal always makes physical contact. Where you need mag brake is mid-cast. Casting light lures you Never need centrifugal brake unless you cast with jerk. And of course, my Roro-X spool on Daiwa will cast 3 g 30% farther than either reel above will cast 5 g. Where does limited experience with one brand compare to empirical measurement.

His question would have a better chance of being found by the right answers if the rod models or even just the brand were included in the thread title.

If you use proper manual bail technique, there's virtually no such thing as over-filling your spool. Always keep your free hand close to the spool to feather the line. Close the bail with the same hand, never with auto-bail close. Turn with the rod and take up the slack before you begin retrieve. Pretty much solves every complaint about spinning tackle - runaway line, wind knots. I fill my braid reels to where my fingernail from the bottom of the line keeper groove can't feel a change moving onto the spooled braid. Works the same way with fluoro.

@AlabamaSpothunter no, there's also a difference in the spool and braking profile, also. SV uses lighter rotor and stronger magnets, while Steez A uses Magforce-Z brakes.

My 3000MHG is Twin Power, but in general, that's a bad boy size, spindle and drag from large frame - big bass to big redfish. Where Vanquish really shines is in the lighter sizes.

Everyone is trying to talk you into a larger reel. I would look at capacity on JDM C2000S, C2000SHG (high-geared) Shimano Miravel, or better at the current exchange rate, step up to Stradic for Shimano entry-level worm drive, or just a little more for lighter-frame Vanford. https://www.jpfishingtacklenews.com/shimano-stradic-19/ Here's a shallow Shimano Yumeya F3 aftermarket spool for mid-frame (S-20) Shimano, 2500, C3000 https://www.hedgehog-studio.co.jp/product/4372 This is what I do to match my mid-frame and large frame Shimano reels with shallow braid spools.

I own a Steez and a Vanquish. My Steez is tuned for salt finesse, and I fish it on a Yamaga Blanks rod. The magnesium frame and max number of bearings makes the Steez light and smooth, and good match for a 73-g rod. I own a Vanquish C2000S. Without question, it is the best finesse spinning reel. Also on a Yamaga Blanks rod. You can feel the wind inertia difference, which has no resistance to start, and the reel does not keep pushing your hand when you stop winding. @roadwarrior It's lighter than Stella because of the alloy gears vs. stainless, plus a lightened rotor - otherwise, it's the same, and comes off the same Japan bench. The mass difference in the drive gives it lower wind inertia than Stella. You couldn't guess without having the reels side-by-side.

Any time you're fishing threadline braid, shallow spool to get the right capacity with the line diameter is most important. This is how you get good line management (look at my photos above again). Last October, I let my buddy borrow the reel and line I show above (C2000SHG, YGK PE#0.8) to fish on his new salt finesse rod. He was giddy with the light-lure casts he was getting - said he wouldn't have guessed that cast distance was even possible. He went home and bought two just like it.

all Japan X-braids are made by Izanas - 80% of the strength is in a center high-strength strand, with outer fibers for abrasion resistance. They're made from finer fibers, tighter weave, and fused thinner when outer FEP coating is applied. Sufix 832 At 0.18 mm, Sufix is 8-lb, Japan X-braid is 20-24-lb.

You're going in the right direction. Thinner braid casts better. You can always upgrade the braid to Varivas or YGK to get 16-20-lb in the same diameter and capacity as the rated 8 lb.

horse hockey - no one's feelings were hurt - the thread apparently trolled out exactly as intended. Gee, I can make the reel backlash if I don't set up the brake. Your Lew's will do the same thing - when you find incipient backlash, set the brake a notch lower.

ok, back for a simple editorial. Anyone is going to like any reel that tunes properly in their niche for it. Tuning it incorrectly is no excuse for lambasting the reel. I would probably still be buying Lew's if anyone offered a range of spool options for them. (I did buy a second Super Duty G two years ago). Zillion is a vastly versatile reel, partly because of Daiwa's patented brake/spool design, partly because of exceptional aftermarket spools available for it.

Wrong. Take back the last mag notch, and you're 100% set. enjoy your thread - i'm outta here

You could have asked what you were doing wrong. You proved I don't like this number is an ineffective way to set up a reel. Mine casts 1/8 oz into next week on 8, but not because of the number.

This thread began with promise - I'm taking these 2 reels fishing. Then it went polar - dump on Zillion. If anything was so bad, it wouldn't be in the market. We're generally the last group that's going to hype something, and most of us can find the right niche for any piece of tackle.

d**n ugly reel. A new twist on the fanboy thread, spinning Vs. baitcasting, etc. BTW, next time you see VS on a thread title, read same old BS. Susceptibility to marketing hype seems to be a generational thing, as in, I wouldn't know what I need if they didn't tell me. If you know what you need, you don't think about what they say.

Having a preference is a good thing. Uninventing physics to justify a preference is hokey. Maybe the problem was google translate.