Tatulatard

Old leaked full body pic of one of the rods from months ago. These are probably pre production mules. Looks like only this spinning rod gets the silver to black fade? The rods being shown off by daiwa pros appear to have silver beyond the 1st guide. New and old together. You can see how that cork is going to look after some use.

Perfect color for a scorpion 150 mgl or 1000xt.

What about the silver to black fade we saw on the leaked pics? Are there no pictures of the whole rod? It's that paint and thick epoxy that runs down the whole blank that makes the old tatula elite rods tip heavy. I'd prefer a sanded naked blank once past the 2nd guide. My gen 1 73mh tatula elite is more tip heavy than my old 2015 zodias rods. I hope they fixed that with the new ones.

That's because its Japanese and they have some sort of special high functioning autism to make that work. It's the low effort chinease stuff that looks the worst. I like the clear side plate toy machine the best.

I have a 3 pc rod and casitas mgl I keep stashed in my car. If I bring the truck its got a boat in the bed or behind it.

A rapala made from wood is basically a gycb soft bait. It'll be a heck of fish catcher no doubt but don't expect durability of other hard baits. A plastic rapala is like those gycb hard baits they tried that one time. Ew.

6 oz is my limit too. Anything more and it's probably ly meant for trolling but I do want to cast this 40 cm line through trout once. Just once.

Is that the chinease site one? A guy got that and trolled it for pike and actually caught one on it.

You have lived to see man made horrors beyond your comprehension.

I will incude a kayak comparison because these types of boats are the next step up. I have an 8 foot pond prowler. Its super stable and easy to stand up in compared to even the most stable "stand up" kayak. It is much heavier than my kayak and is annoying to drag off the truck bed and even more difficult to heave into the water once fitted with trolling motor and battery but manageable. It also has less endurance than a kayak because I am limited by the battery life and paddling that barge is only viable for an emergency situation. Compared to my kayak it is far less transportable. It requires a truck bed or trailer and you want to dump it off near the water. There is no car topping and wheeling it down a foot trail for hundreds of feet. It is however, a vastly superior fishing platform. You can easily pitch while seated, standing and hookseting is similar to standing on a bass boat deck and done with ease. I have one of the most stand up friendly kayaks and it's a no go for me. It's like trying to stand up on a surf board. I can stand easily but casting and hooksetting or even trying to sit back down make it a no go where as the pond prowler is well suited to this. Range is limited compared to the kayak. I am only limited by human endurance in my kayak and that far exceeds a battery especially given the differences between the two vessels in water and wind drag. The pond prowler is like you mounted a chair and trolling motor to a chunk of floating dock. It has a lot of drag.

That does look good. Mine donated the purple parts to a reel that donated its red parts to a fuego ct that was kind enough to donate its silver parts to the 17 tatula sv. The silver tatula then disappeared to the bottom of a lake.

There is a technique to it. I don't have it down yet but with a rod with some backbone, even if designed for casting 1/8 oz you can get a fish moving your way. The Japanese bfs anglers got it figured out. It's nothing but small ones but the technique is the same. I'm too terrified to high stick and break a tip off lifting the rod way up like that.

Yep. These are pretty tatulas. Pretty shiny.

I got mine from Australia. I think shipping was $15. I bought a bunch since I like these baits and shipping was expensive. I haven't even fixed the one I lost the fins on. It happened at night and continued to catch fish before I realized it wasn't diving very deep. It happend on a gill flash jdm Jr. I might actually remove the ones on my black Jr for night fishing use. https://www.motackle.com.au/fishing/lures/lure-accessories/jackall-chibitarel-spare-fins.html

That bottom rod is my definition of minimal acceptable build quality. Orange aside, it has anodized and machined winding checks, no exposed reel seat threads. paint finish, thread work, split grips, split grip portion is used for a graphic and rod information and acceptable grips with a mix of eva and rubberized cork. Too many rods fail at this and just glue grips to a stick and call it a day. You got to at least match this $39 walmart rod if you want into my boat.

I remember back in 2017 the paint finish on that tatula along with the color accents was to add a sense or high end to the reel. I think that was an official daiwa talking point. Anyways I always liked the silver spool and paint on those reels.

I skip docks and brush with 10 lbs fouro to show bass tiny baits they haven't seen to get bites from pressured fish. More than once I have caught a fish in the 6-7 lbs range. Last year I was skipping huds under docks on 20 lbs fouro but its not due to break offs or an inability to get fish out of cover on 10 lbs line and the finesse baits. I just wore them out on neds and little wacky worms and the bite died so now they attack a hud thrown at them. This year I plan on skipping a spinnerbait. If I'm going to throw a tiny jig or little weightless worm at bass in cover I'm going to use line that is appropriate for that bait and pressured bite.

Same. I didn't realize I naturally gravitate towards lighter hooks and line until I saw and heard of people throwing flukes on 17 lbs line with these huge diameter heavy hooks as perfectly normal. I think the big heavy hook use is also why i don't have an issue with the gilly but everybody else does. It's a bigger is better mentality I think. This is very prevalent in the US in general.

That's one of my favorite things about kayak fishing.

Those 1st gens bodies last though. When a 2nd gen is a stain in the yard a 1st gen will look like that.

I was referencing the 5.4 3v Ford for the cam phasers and timing chain. Also let me know what wax you use that makes metal re-materialize from rust holes. I need that. A lot of it.

Everytime i see a 3rd or 4th gen ram they look like this and it makes my 2004 f150 seem not so terrible by comparison despite being the worst truck to ever exist. "Yeah it may be time for new cam phasers and timing chain again at only 130k but at least it doesn't look like that".

Never seen a lexa 400. Thats a big boi.

The US model is more expensive because the dollar is stronger and also US retailers are jerks and don't offer the heavy discount over MSRP like you see everywhere else. The two combined are especially brutal. As far as tatulas go it is very simple. There have been 3 generations and all 3 are still in production and sold in various markets including the US. We have: The original tatula: 1st tatula. 1st flipping t wing reel. Big solid and wide low profile reel with an aluminum handle side plate. Tatula 100, tatula 100 type-r (exclusive 8:1 ratio), tatula150 HD, tatula 150 HD custom, fuego, fuego HD, prorex 200, 1st gen HRF and sol III. 2019 tatula 150, tatula 200 and coastal 200 tw (they renamed the old 100 to 150 and the old 150 to 200). Tatula CT: Same mechanicals as the 1st tatula but in a narrow frame. No more aluminum handle side plate. Tatula ct, fuego ct, 2017 tatula sv, sol sv tw, 2020 tatula ct, 2019 fuego sv, prorex sv Tatula 100 (again): this is an all new platform. Does not share gears with the older tatulas 2019 tatula 100, 2020 tatula sv, coastal 150 sv, elite long cast, elite PF, prorex pe sv, HRF pe special, salamandera 103 and salamadera 150 sv. There is also some sea jigging reel with hyper gears using this platform that just came out. When parts are available this could allow this tatula gen to get hyper gear swaps. Also the "zero adjuster" isn't a thing. It isn't something new technology fitted to the reel. They are all zero adjust. All your reels right now can be zero adjust. You just gotta stop touching that knob. Daiwa made theirs difficult to turn to discourage you from touching it. They invented the "hard to turn knob". Next they'll invent the "knob with friggin spikes on it" if you all keep at this.

Levante JBS is nice. It balances our tip down very well and has a great action. I throw baits right at the 3/4 ounce limit and it fishes great.