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Anyone use these? Experienced??Really lightweight reel for the price point

Besides keitech easy shiners and swing impacts what are your guys favorite 3-4” similar swimbaits? I recently tried out the berkley ripple Shad’s and love em

So weird thing about this was when I bought these reels, the owner of the tackle store decided to throw in some free braid for me and he spooled the reels up on a machine. I normally don’t like machine spooling as I spool all my reels myself by hand. After messing around with the reels and coming across the issue of resistance and tightness, I decided to strip the line off because the reels were slightly overspooled to my liking. I transferred the line to another reel, removed some backing and respooled the reels by hand to my liking. I had some time to kill yesterday before Easter gathering and to my surprise the resistance and Tightness issue is just about gone. Not sure why machine spooling would cause this issue but both reels seem to be much better

Yes

Daiwa bg.

Bought two new nasci 4000s for inshore fishing. Both have resistance when retrieving a swimbait. (5” 1/2oz jig) Without retrieving lure they are smooth and feel normal. Line rollers are spinning freely. What can be the issue?

Nice fish I am impatiently awaiting them to return to east end of LI

Deep cranks and drop shot

I always like the booyah pond magic

You’re probably fine but if it was me I’d change out the line and store rods indoors from now on. Why let something like line possibly ruin a good day on the water

Were they sitting in direct sunlight or protected in a car or boat?

Glad to hear you had good experience with Amazon. I personally have never ordered a rod from Amazon but have heard horror stories

Rods and reel stay on climate controlled basement. If I’m fishing a lot I may leave the rod in the car for a few days at a time with no issues

Yes. The fish at the time were feeding on golden shiners. I would twitch the bait 2-3 times then pause it for 5-10 seconds. It is a painful and boring way to fish but works

I took a 6lber years ago mid March here in NY with water in 40s. A walking bait fished painfully slow with long pauses did the trick

Bass fishing has been extremely slow here in my area so off to a trout lake it was. Totaled atleast 10 nice browns and a few small rainbows. 1/8oz gold kastmaster took a few fish but the Berkeley powerbait trout worm on a trout magnet jighead really did the damage. Fun day on a 5’ ultralight with 4lb test

Don’t be afraid to throw topwater in cold water especially in shallow water

I’m not a fan of both reels but really disliked the fuego. The handle felt too small and overall the reel didn’t feel comfortable.

When night fishing at night with hard baits or small swim baits I use the tactical angler clips. Makes lure changing a lot easier. The ones I use are the micro clips. Never had one bend or open up. If you’re into tossing big baits you’d probably want to step it up to the 50lb size

Will look into those, thanks. The stock hooks bend and break way too easily although they are very sharp

What’s the best replacement hooks for the shadow rap shad?

On berkley lines they have a letter and two numbers. The first letter is the month (A is January, B is February, C is March, etc) the first number is the day of the month, and the second number is the year. These letters and numbers tell you when the line was made. Like others have said if it’s stored in a cool dark place you shouldn’t have an issue. With that being said after two years I toss it and buy new. For an $8-$9 spool of line would you really want to take the chance of losing a fish of a lifetime?

New guy here from ny. Long time lurker