Tatulatard

Banax, daiwa, doyo and shimano off the top of my head. I know there are others but they are also korean or chinease reels. In the case of daiwa they do have a line of reels branded as daiwa that are not actually daiwas. The pr100, ca80 and cc80 also called a bass-x.

You don't. A gill swimming with that S shape struggling to keep itself upright and is fenced in near the surface is a dinner bell to bass.

Perception outlaw for low $800 is what I see them running. Looked into them once and almost pulled the trigger but want something with a pedal drive support. Looks like a good super stable kayak though.

Also I do enjoy a small human powered water craft in small bodies of water. Just something about gliding through the water I enjoy. On a recent trip to a new body of water with two creek arms I found that I enjoyed exploring the arms as they narrowed and found the ends in my kayak than the fish I caught.

Because it can be car topped and moved by one person. Basically no need for a trailer and all that mess. It's something I can throw on the roof and go to work then fish nearby lakes in the few hours I have after work. If I am only going to be on the water for 2 hours before its dark then I'm not going through all the hassle of dealing with the boat. Any time I am only going for a short few hour outting, unsure if I am even going to go at all (just leave the yak on the roof and go whenever wherever ever during bass pre-dawn and spawn) and small bodies of water without proper support to launch a boat are when I use the kayak.

You do that on the way to work or is that how you earn a living? I have my car to commute and my truck to do truck stuff and to be a back up vehicle.

Don't put any stock into diawa official line caps. The 150 is the same reel down to the spool as the old 100 and type r which were rated 14/120. They have also rated the old 100 and type r differently despite both having the same spool dimensions. They brought the old tatula back (for good reason) and called it a tatula 150 when they changed how they rated the line capacity because tatula 120 was too weird I guess. Same thing with the tatula 200. It used to be called a tatula HD 150 rated at 14/165. They may be old reels but I like them better than the newer ones. They are very solid feeling reels and have more line cap then your average daiwa low pro. http://www.tackletour.com/reviewdaiwatatula.html http://www.tackletour.com/reviewdaiwatattyper.html http://www.tackletour.com/reviewdtatulahd.html

Did you not have a boat loader for the rack? Thats what I have and find it as easy to load my kayak onto my subaru as it is to put it into the bed of my truck. I also have the benefit of not having to have a flag on the end and I can park easier when driving around with a kayak loaded. I'll have a kayak loaded for weeks at a time on a daily driver in spring.

I've seen someone do this with a honda element. I want to get one after seeing what people can do with them. People put motorcycles back there. I wanted a minivan as a new daily but was afraid of the fwd automatic transmissions dieing. They all have this problem because the big v6s destroy those little sideways autos and none come in manual. The element doesn't make enough power to kill its transmission and even has a manual option. Too bad they go for so much and have poor mpg.

I'll add that there is likely to be some minor damage car topping a kayak. I use an extension to single person side load making it as easy as it gets. I extend the front rack out and then bring the kayak along side the car and put the bow on the extension then pick up the back and put it on the rear rack and finally shove the bow off the extension and onto the front rack. Still there is the risk of it falling off the extension and wallowing on the ground and smacking the car or the side of the Kayak scraping the paint when it is lifted or lowered. My little wagon has a few dings from this happening but it's ok because its a cheap spare car winter beater and fishing vehicle that I own. My point is don't do this is you are going to lease a vehicle. I wouldn't want to it if financing to own even. Not your title not your car. Buy something that you can afford with your own money.

I have both a compact wagon thing and a full size pickup I use to move my kayak. The little wagon is the superior kayak transportation vehicle. I can put the kayak on the roof rack and lay all my rods in the back or even mount them to a headliner rod rack. With my truck and its 5.5 bed I have to have it sticking out past the tailgate with a flag on the end. I also have exactly 4' past the tailgate which is to my understanding the maximum allowed protrusion meaning that I can't transport a longer kayak in my truck. For context I transported 16' deck boards with my little wagon yet my truck can't even do that without a trailer. The best vehicle is probably a minivan or element because you can load a kayak or two on the roof, mount rods to the headliner then get up from the front seat and go lay down in the back and sleep. The worst is a compact truck. The bed is too short to transport a kayak without having an understanding lawful amount sticking out and the cabin is too short to fit one price rods. My neighbor has gotten I to kayak fishing and has a Tacoma. He has to trailer his kayak and stick his rods in some stupid tube bolted to the roof. It screams "I bought the wrong vehicle for my hobby". Luckily bolting tubes, stretchers and tents to Tacomas is in voge right now as "overlanding".

My 27 mpg subaru is down while I replace the old 5mt with one from a turbo car so I get to drive my truck as my daily. It gets 14.6 mpg highway. How do people daily drive trucks? I cringe every time I fill it up.

150. Both reels are the same size with the 150 being a magZ spool and the 200 being a deep magforce spool. Which reel you use will depend on your baits and line. For 40 lbs braid both will hold a ton of line with the 200 holding nonsensical amounts of line. I would use the 200 for big mono and bigger baits from 1 to 3 oz and the 150 with braid and baits 3/8 to 1.5 oz.

I've reeled against a tip wrap with an 8:1 for a few cranks before realizing it was wrapped and had the guide frames shred the line. Unwrapped and continued to fish until I discovered the ruined section of line. I had no idea what caused it until I did it a few more time. Maybe this has been happening to you?

I don't like fun either. It's weird.

I hope this fish hoisting nonsense doesn't catch on. If it does then they'll just bake the breakages and replacement costs into the purchase price of new rods. Use a net. Bend over and lip land. If you high stick and break a tip off then learn the lesson and stop doing that. Failure to learn the lesson and to push the problem onto manufacturers is just going to produce negative repocissions for us all.

Don't hoist fish with your rod. Also don't pursue a warranty replacement. The rod did nothing wrong. Buy a net.

That reel doesn't have a ZPI spool. Big red flag. It either missing or there was no such thing for this generation as a zpi official version. If this is an ebay listing then it probably vastly over priced anyway. If you want collaboration reel then lurk the Japanese sites.

Make sure this isn't just someone putting parts on an calling in a zpi custom. Was there ever such a thing as a zpi aldebaran? I know they did a metanium before.

The big daiwas have some strong magnets. Even a tat 200 can slow a big bait well.

Amazon or the tackle trap. Daiwa is basically the industry standard when it comes to handle nuts. Everything from other daiwa nuts to random chinease reels use the name size and threading. Just make sure you order the correct one for what side the handle is on. The tackle trap has right hand daiwa nuts in stock. Get a lock plate too and ditch that awful plastic thing.

We talking about effort or smoothness? A high gear ratio reel like a 7:1 cranking on a high resistance bait will be more difficult to retrieve and take more effort than on a slower gear ratio. I do notice that I feel the gears mesh more on a high gear ratio moving a high resistance bait and that also makes it feel less smooth than a slower gear ratio on similar reels.

Modern reels have fast ratios with tiny teeth on their pinon gears, light weight frames and plastic side plates. A heavier 9oz old reel with slow ratios is just more likely to be butter and stay butter than some 6oz modern reel especially if it is graphite bodied or has aluminum gears.

Nice. Didn't realize there is super free and a hyper double support. Assumed this one would just be a blue tatula 80.

This makes me irrationally angry. Its like finding out someone put a pinto body over an exotic.