Ok so in another thread I said I was gonna buy another reel thanks to bait monkey...

 

Anyhow, one guy at some point said his Tatula handled lighter stuff great. So that night I spooled up some 10# Fluoro and tied on a Fluke, with a Gamakatsu 4/0 weighted hook. Casted like a dream in the back yard so I was convinced. Over the weekend I pre fished plus tourney and threw a fluke quite a bit. Fluke and Tatula are a match made in heaven. We had heavy winds on Saturday, no problem what so ever. Got great casting distance into wind. Not a single backlash nothing.

 

I use a *** 6'7" M/F for flukes and jerkbaits. Was using a Chronarch 201E6 which I now have found another use for.

 

I like to stay in the 6:1 gearing range for flukes, I want to pull up slack line but not too much in case a fish hits and sits. On that note I read the Tatula Type R has a lighter spool, which in reality would probably make very minor difference, although an advantage for flukes. Especially if I dont tie on a weighted hook. The Tat I used I wanted to put on another rod so went ahead and searched for a deal for another.

 

Grabbed a Type R in 6.3:1 for $122.57. Excited is a understatement. Have bocas I never put in the other 2 so Im gonna do the bushing>bearing on the levelwind and I think the knobs are 1 bushing and 1 bearing, gonna up that to 2 each.  Peanut butter jelly time!

Ok so in another thread I said I was gonna buy another reel thanks to bait monkey...

 

Anyhow, one guy at some point said his Tatula handled lighter stuff great. So that night I spooled up some 10# Fluoro and tied on a Fluke, with a Gamakatsu 4/0 weighted hook. Casted like a dream in the back yard so I was convinced. Over the weekend I pre fished plus tourney and threw a fluke quite a bit. Fluke and Tatula are a match made in heaven. We had heavy winds on Saturday, no problem what so ever. Got great casting distance into wind. Not a single backlash nothing.

 

I use a *** 6'7" M/F for flukes and jerkbaits. Was using a Chronarch 201E6 which I now have found another use for.

 

I like to stay in the 6:1 gearing range for flukes, I want to pull up slack line but not too much in case a fish hits and sits. On that note I read the Tatula Type R has a lighter spool, which in reality would probably make very minor difference, although an advantage for flukes. Especially if I dont tie on a weighted hook. The Tat I used I wanted to put on another rod so went ahead and searched for a deal for another.

 

Grabbed a Type R in 6.3:1 for $122.57. Excited is a understatement. Have bocas I never put in the other 2 so Im gonna do the bushing>bearing on the levelwind and I think the knobs are 1 bushing and 1 bearing, gonna up that to 2 each.  Peanut butter jelly time!

I have a Type R and have done the upgrades you speak of, kind of just tops off what is already a great reel.  Kind of like ice cream on your cake.

Sounds good to me.  Congrats.  I had planned on already having a Tatula.  Still will eventually, but i picked up a couple of the T3 1016 reels so funds are a bit low although I do have a Fenwick Smallmouth spinning rod set aside for me to pick up from Cabela's sale. 

 

What I have found (for me) is that a tuned and upgraded reel (all my upgraded reels so far are Daiwas) require less brakes than factory reels.  Like aavery2 said...it is icing on the cake. 

This reel is INSANE!!!! -

 

Daiwa guys: are their reels always marked down so much unlike Shimano? If thats the case.... Ya know where I'm going with this!

I've found that most Daiwas handle lighter baits well, as do a lot of other mag brake reels. Daiwas magforce z just makes dialing it in super easy.

Sweet! I just bought a Tatula yesterday. I planned on having one a while ago too but other things I "needed" kept coming up. Cant wait to get out and play with it today

Practice got cancelled have tourney tomorrow, can't wait.

How does that weird t wing deal work?

This reel is INSANE!!!! -

 

Daiwa guys: are their reels always marked down so much unlike Shimano? If thats the case.... Ya know where I'm going with this!

Nope.  First time I've ever seen pricing the likes of these Tatula's. Surprised the heck out of me these places were selling them so cheap.  Maybe somebody else has seen it happen before but I never have.

 

 By the time they were done with the HSTA, the price had gone UP 20.00 after 5 years on the market.  Same with the Zillion if I remember right, big price jump. Never seen Daiwa's sell for so much under their MSRP as these Tatula's.

How does that weird t wing deal work?

 

After playing with the rod/reel for a couple hours, I can honestly say, it works great! It works exactly as advertised. I had the reel dialed down in minutes. I realized later I had to set the brakes a bit higher to control my casts better. I was over shooting targets by 50' with the same effort as my other reels. I've now got the settings back down to where I like them and long casts are effortless. This thing is the longest reel in its price range, no question. And with the reduced friction from the line guide, it handles light baits very well. I spent the bulk of the time out throwing a 2 3/4" tube with 1/8th ounce head with no issues(my rod is the 6'10" MHF). And I was throwing it far! Retrieves were very smooth. And... the rod is impressive, as good or better than anything in that $150 price range.

 

Unless you're asking what it does, it looks real similar to a normal levelwind line guide until you depress the switch. then the guide turns 90 degrees to open a wide hole, maybe 2/3 the way across the spool. The line doesn't touch the hole it goes through a whole lot. Definitely less than a conventional casting reel. Different for sure but a pretty effective setup to be sure

Thanks for the impressions. Had I not ordered 2 Curado I reels, I'd be tempted to grab a Type R. Been gawking over them all day online.

How does that weird t wing deal work?

 

A poster in another thread called the T-wing a gimmick.  If it is a gimmick, then it is a gimmick that I like.  I've got 2 of the T3 1016 reels.  Took one to Florida with me.  Other 3 reels I took with me had standard thumb releases.  It wasn't long before I was trying to engage the spool on all the reels by pushing down with my thumb.  As you can guess, I found it easy...and fast...to use.  I like the T-Wing a lot.

 

However, I couldn't say if it casts any further than my other reels without heading to a park somewhere for testing.  My Purple Alphas was zinging lures out there just as well as the T-wing....to the best of my on water guesstimates.  The only reel that I took with me that wasn't matching the distance of the T3 was my Patriarch XT, but that was because it always had a 10" unweighted worm and 3/0 hook on it.  Less distance was to be expected with that set-up.

 

I tried a 5/8 oz. topwater lure and a Gambler Big EZ on a 5/0 hook on the T3.  I can tell you it will bomb either of these lures a long ways.

How does that weird t wing deal work?

how does if work mechanically? When you engage the clutch the worm gear rotates exposing the angled portion of the guide, this part, the t wing is open oval. It allows line to flutter off more naturally.

Idk if it's defeating the purpose or not to use on a rod with semi or full micro guides?

how does if work mechanically? When you engage the clutch the worm gear rotates exposing the angled portion of the guide, this part, the t wing is open oval. It allows line to flutter off more naturally.

Idk if it's defeating the purpose or not to use on a rod with semi or full micro guides?

All it does in effect is keep the line from having to turn at a hard angle coming off the reel. The guide type should have no effect on what's going on at the reel

All it does in effect is keep the line from having to turn at a hard angle coming off the reel. The guide type should have no effect on what's going on at the reel

no it comes off at same angle from the spool, just allows left to right flow, unless that's the angle you mean. Also when clutch disengaged it's a smaller eyelet allowing line to lay more uniform along the spool. Using it today on the irod it did seem like the line was flapping at the first guide like too much was trying to go through too fast. It's not micro guides like Duckett just really small.