Chronarch 50E Question

No hard feelings   Was just speaking from personal experience with these smaller brethren. 

 

I agree 100% with your above statement, except for the 50.  The added backing, 1/8" from top of spool, and smaller spool add up.  And I love the 50s!   

I sent several reels to a guy for cleaning, and upgrading the drags on most of them and bearings on a couple of them.  He told me if I wanted maximum distance I had to fill my spools...and I don't mean 1/16 - 1/8 inch from spool lip.  I also had my spool tension too tight (to control backlashing).  Said to set tension just enough to remove side-to-side play.  I set up all my reels that way.  It required learning to cast all over again, although not as long as when I first started.  Yes they will backlash if not careful, but I was backlashing with partially filled reels.

I feel the extra effort spent learning to control my reels set up this way was worth that extra effort.  Now I can back off just a bit on casting effort without losing distance, and seldom backlash anymore.  Set up this way I probably had at least 1/4 inch of spool showing after making a cast with that 3/4 oz. spoon.