Tatulatard

Put it on something you can skip 5" senkos and other 3/8 ounce weightless plastics. Send all these baits under docks and low hanging shoreline.

I have that rod. It's tip heavy with a zillion on it. It has a good action and is sensitive enough for me. I do have to wonder what kind of rods people are coming from for the reviews to say the rod is light and balanced.

I use this alot with the bass pro flickin shimmy knock off in plum with metal flake. If I want to be cheap about it I use the 1/16 luck e strike weedless wacky jig heads. I'll skip docks in spring just to give them something a little different to look at vs the 100 billion green pumpkin senkos they have seen.

Maybe the tail is damaged and taking on water.

We used to think in more narrow terms of soft plastics. You had worms and craws that had a worm body. The idea of something like the brush hog was revolutionary at the time. I remember the reaction to it when it came out. "It has TWO curly tails" "what are those things hanging off the side" "what is that stupid thing even supposed to look like?" " that will NEVER catch fish" We used to be very certain that our soft baits had to look like a thing to us or they wouldn't work. Zoom brush hogs and the creature baits catagory it created changed that.

It's how you palm the reel. With 3 fingers in front of the trigger palming you can rub the dial on the tatula 150/200 and 100 ct reels if you place your pointer finger on the rod blank or wrap it around the reel front when palming. Move that finger down with the others and this will make the problem go away. You can also palm with only two fingers in front of the trigger like the lefties do.

Yes. It's a popular swap.

Here it is. I belive that is an ice fishing reel.

You haven't lived until you've scrolled AE fishing gear. There are some real gems out there when it comes to pictures of gear. One had a pistol grip casting rod with a center pin reel on it with the rod being held by the model upside-down with the trigger sticking up like a spike. I have that somewhere.

The powell naked has decadent western winding checks between split grips! It even has a butt cap and the cork grips are adorned with rubberized cork trimmings! Capitalist filth.

Yep but really good updates. The mgl spool is more controllable than the wild old spool and the micro mod gears are very nice addition to the reel. It also means that the old 200i and 70i can take 70 mgl gears as upgrades.

I think it would be great for lighter baits on braid making hard, high release point bomb casts. That spool looks to be on the thicker side and heavy. Not a bad thing because shallow heavy spools with centrifugal brakes can really sling baits out there. If I had to guess the spool was designed for rock fish and jigging with 20 lbs braid. Lews probably saw it in a doyo catalog and selected that spool or spool and reel as a pitching reel. If I had one I would absolutely spool it with 20 lb braid to leader or 10 lbs flouro and bomb 1/4 or 3/8 oz baits on open water. Cranks, jerkbaits, flukes ect with it.

I too love those old platforms and have many. The zero adjuster isn't a real thing. It's a hard to turn knob to get people to stop turning that knob. You don't turn that knob on those old reels either making them "zero adjusters" too. Set and forget. The new zillion is awesome though. I say this as someone who has considered all zillions after the td zillion like you have there to be tatulas masquerading as zillions. That new zillion 1000 is the 1st real zillion to some out since the original IMO. It's actually very similar to a td-z in weight, palmability, color and braking profile to an R+ making it more td-z like than zillion with the zillion HD being a better modern td zillion replacement. That sv boost spool isn't like the other sv spools.

He wants to know if it uses the same frame. The answer is yes because it's a same platform. That is the correct answer. The misleading answer is to claim it is a completely different reel.

That's the curado 70i painted black with some much needed updates to the spool and gearing. It's as much a new reel as the tatula 150 and 200 are new reels for 2019 and not just the original tatula and tatula HD painted black. It's an old platform which is fine because it's a good one. You can take a 70i and a 70 mgl swap all parts including the frames. Its not a new reel the same way the 200k was over the 200i or the chronarch g ci4+ was over the old ci4 chronarch. It is a re-release of an existing platform with some updates. Daiwa did the same thing with the alphas for what seemed like forever until the new tws alphas. They can call it whatever they want but the 70k mgl is a 70i. Dont let the "i" and "k" confise you into thinking they are as different platforms. They are both curado 70s with the new one being the black mgl one and the old one being the silver non mgl one. You can put all the parts in a bag and shake them up and build two reels out of randomly selected parts provided you keep the gear sets matching. I don't have a curado 150 but all reports I have heard state that it sits lower than the 70 but is wider. Which palms better came down to your preference for low and wide or taller and more narrow. The 150 has a shorter but wider 32 mil spool vs the taller but narrow 34 mil spool of the 70.

The current zillion is basically the 2nd coming of the td-z. I'm seriously considering getting some red parts to make a td-z type R+ tribute. The reels are that similar.

It the same frame. There is no "curado 70k". Its the old 70i with new spool, gears and colors to match the 200k. The curado 150 mgl sits lower than the 70 but is wider.

This doesn't stop daiwa US from saying it had magforce z. They have corrected it but they screw this up time and time again on their site to the point where you cannot trust what the the US site says about reel features. This reel for example is stated to have hyper double support which it does not. Daiwa Japan and other regions are pretty spot on but daiwa US has some sort of issue.

Basically think of it like this rod but a MH instead of a H. And a $200 jackall rod instead of a $700 destroyer X7. Maybe you can get an idea of what that type of action is good for. It's not for everyone. http://www.tackletour.com/reviewmbbearingdowntypex.html

It's a cool rod but overall I'm not warm and fuzzy on it. It's a ferrule joint rather than the handle insert kind of joint. The rod is built like a MH but with a solid carbon tip inserted into the rod part way and then the blank was finished with the solid tip being rolled into the blank martial. This gives it more of a st croix xf like tip that transitions into the blank rather than the almost afterthought like solid tips seen on other rods that make them fish weird. This jackall is more st croix xf taper with the sturdiness of a solid tip. This solid tip does rob you of some power which is why I belive they call it a M+. I got it to try out that type or XF taper for bottom contact and to do some power drop shotting. It works well and that tip will tell you alot about what the bait is doing and allows you to crawl a bait millimeters with wrist movements as the tip loads and takes some of the rod movement away. It is not super sensitive or floaty. Its more floaty than the modern tatula rods and more like an old zodias. Mine was a 2020 $199 rod and I didn't feel like that was great balance and sensitivity for the money but I got it for the action and how that tip is built into the rod. I have come to appreciate that action. I'm using it as a shallow water drop shot rod as I explore that world along with the tokyo rig. I still prefer a more normal f to mod fast taper on a MH or M+ for my bread and butter plastics dock skipping. That XF is too weird for that.

Good catch on the spool arbor. I thought it would have magforce z and they just got the site description wrong since it daiwa US and they already did this with the 2020 tatula ct page. That spool in that schematic definitely looks like a magforce only spool.

I use vmc or luck e strike in 1/16 oz for my bass pro stick os to bring up the fall rate to get the bait flapping and on bass pro flicking shimmy worms. I'm sure there are better ones out there but all my terminal tackle comes from brick and mortar. Can't be bothered to wait 2 weeks for hooks and line to show up when it need it this weekend so I am limited to my local bass pro.

I used to think so until the tube and later zoom brush hog came out. Once "creature baits" were a thing and our heads stopped exploding we began to fish all sorts of unrecognizable flappy and wiggly soft plastic objects for bass and still do. It's not what it looks like but how it moves or doesn't move that matters.

I see. No double pinon support the same way the tatula 300 doesn't have magforce z. Daiwa US is consistent in its wrongness. The other regional daiwas don't have this problem.

Is there a bearing on the spool?