Tatulatard

I would say that both the jdm and usdm posion adrenas fall under a "jdm style" umbrella and a gloomis would be the Shimano usdm style rod. I'm speaking purely from an asethetics point of view. Posion adrenas looks like they come straight out of Japan minus the hook keeper.

It's the same reel. Daiwa refers to the reel by the year it was launched. 16 tatula ct, 17 tatula sv, 19 tatula 100 ect. This is avoid confusion when they have two generations of reels with the same name. It does not reflect the current year.

I should get a shishamo and aba garia just to have a meme reel collection.

It's a $17 normal retail marked up to $50. The same reel in different brands is all over the chinease amazon place. I actually bought a $20 reel recently and this reel was one I saw but passed because its magnetic only as they often have a weak magnets on these cheap reels making them impossible to control. I would at least like a centrifugal brake for my $20.

The fat sections on the posts of the gomexus handle won't allow daiwa knobs to slide down with a a bearing in the bottom of the knob. You would have to remove the bearing and use the the fat section in place of the bearing and then shim out any play. Not worth it. 5 seconds on the chinease amazon site will flood you with carbon handle options. Honestly they are kind or over played and even $40 reels from that site some with them as stock handles. A light weight quality aluminum handle looks sharper imo which also exist on the same site from gomexus and other brands.

Yeah US rods are usually pretty ugly or boring but they are getting better. I like the look of the new LTB rods. Yeah they use plastic winding checks instead of anodized aluminum but they have higher labor costs being made in the USA so I guess that helps offset some of that. In the past they looked like hot garbage but these new ones look sharp with that blue paint, gold thread work, cork and rubberized cork. Good graphics with nice little detailing. Good looking rods.

I was thinking the same thing unless it's to prevent bite offs.

Both catch less fish than a bobber with a nightcrawler cast by a spiderman zebco. We like to pretend we are all no nonsense anglers that are just using the best tool for the job but if that was the case we wouldn't be throwing artificial baits on baitcast reels. At some level we just enjoy fishing for bass with lures. It's more enjoyable than sitting there with bobber and worm. A metanum dc for many is more enjoyable than a lews lfs.

No bait keeper.?. But I think they think it means it looks cool.

Got some 10# for some finesse casters today. It was right next to vanish and was cheaper. Fully stocked while the vanish was more picked through. Let's hope this becomes the new budget flouro of choice.

Yeah I'm pretty sure lews just orders doyo reels with their name on the outside like bass pro. If I remember correctly the lews reel brand relaunch was ran buy the guy from bass pro that coordinated with doyo to order reels for bass pro. He bought the lews brand from bass pro, that had acquired it from browning, and then began selling doyos as lews when bass pro had begun to move away from doyo to Banax and chinease oem reels for their reels. This was a brilliant idea and doyo makes pretty good reels. Yeah its not really a "lews" but most are either unaware or don't care. Nope but they are super smooth, stay smooth (so far) and have a brass drop in option if/when needed. It took years of use for the steez aluminum gears to wear out on guys and these are apposed even better aluminum gears. I've bot heard anything yet or experienced it myself yet.

Need. I guess this is all you need but even this is a bit extravagant. You would jut get a brick and some string. You don't need any fancy winders or poles. You know what you need? A jdm zillion. That's what you need. That or the more expensive inflated US dollar based usdm zillion. It'll make you forget all about those tatulas.

It's just great. The brand knows what they are doing when it comes to making reels. They are among the top 3 if not the #1. This particular reel showcases some of their newest technologies in a small package while also retaining a 34 mil spool compatibility with other daiwa and aftermarket spools. The combination of size, weight, smoothness and casting performance is top of the market. It'll bomb anything you want and then turn around and send it under a dock without a 2nd thought. it will do it while being incredibly smooth and palm perfect. Its a steal at $360 and down right bonkers at $260 with the current exchange rate. They are going to start banning foreign customers or something these reels are going for so cheap for how good they are.

Jdm zillion

That's a lot of spool tension for skipping. I how does it skip a weightless 4" senko? Thats one of my favorites to skip and one of my litmus test baits when skipping.

Wow those are the prices these days? I remember these being $2 to $3 max like 10 years ago. Talk about inflation. Are these made in the USA or something because that would explain the price.

I have that handle. Its awesome and it looks better on a shimano than the daiwa style carbon handle.

They are everywhere in those spinning spinnerbait stands in tackle stores in the upper Midwest. I've caught quite a few on them and have also used them for pike and musky. Its been years but I remember them being affordable so I bought them on fishing trips when we would get into a bunch of pike. Let them destroy those instead of my good bass baits. I still use some as night spinnerbaits. Sort of a nostalgia bait for me. They are functional baits but not exactly good among the myriad of bass spinnerbaits. I also liked that I could attach a steel leader for pike with a clip to the lure eye because there is no R bend.

That's how it happens. Also a fan of the metal drag star. There is just something about that metalic click.

Personally that carbon handle looks like a daiwa handle but that's me. I have the handles with both cork and tpe. The cork looks cool but the tpe feels amazing in hand.

These are nice. This is the old zillion daiwa called the sv103 for a while. This is not a tatula sv103 before anyone gets any ideas.

Just use the guide frame. It's standard practice outside of the states and why rods from other markets rarely come with a "hook keeper". If you get anything jdm don't expect a hook keeper. Personally I find it a little annoying to have to pull the hook out of my plastic to stick it in the guide frame but I also find line wrapping around hook keepers more annoying.

The scent is liquid based so your really don't smell much handling the baits. The plastic and liquid in the bag reminds me of gulp. I'm not a fan of the of the soggy plastics. They aren't the best plastisol in terms of action or durability (like gulp) but do catch fish. If there ever was a case to be made for scents on baits then its these. They come dripping with the stuff.

With a long enough casting rod I'm sure it's possible. They exist for "light game" and other salt water applications. Typically run 7'6" to 9' in length. I've actually thought about getting one for 1/8 oz cranks but decided not to go down that rabbit hole.

It was the control comment that got me. My experience had been I can thumb the spool and control bait placement to a far higher degree than I can feather the line off a spinning reel. This was something I heard before getting into it and I had my doubts because I am pretty good about feathering my line on a spinning reel but after using both there is no comparison. The lighter you go the more it favors the casting reel for accuracy. I'll throw some truly UL baits and as soon as I feather with the spinning reel the baits slow too much. With a UL capable casting reel i can apply miniscule ammounts of pressure to the spool to get it where I want. For distance I get better with a long spinning rod when using a long leader drop shot and still prefer spinning for that. For short leader drop shots I use either or but prefer spinning. I like the bfs stuff for precision casting to targets and any bait that I move by tuning the handle like micro cranks, swim jigs and ned rigs. I hate cranking on spinning reels.