10 hours ago, offsidewing said:

Every time I think of buying a Daiwa reel, I buy another Shimano Metanium.  I think both brands are well made.  I'm in love with the new Shimano Metanium MGL.  

This interests me.  Should I just save my money and hold out for a Metanium to use for my pitching and skipping duties?  I've heard so many people say they're incredible.

 

10 hours ago, offsidewing said:

Every time I think of buying a Daiwa reel, I buy another Shimano Metanium.  I think both brands are well made.  I'm in love with the new Shimano Metanium MGL.  

After buying my first Metanium MGL just recently and toying around with it on open water, well partial open water due to the mild weather the last week (still too cold up here to catch anything though).  Now I understand what people were raving about.  I have 2 Met 13s' that I bought last year and loved them, but this MGL to me feels a ton better and smoother! The Met 13s though will still be in my arsenal, they are still smooth reels...but I'm definitely in line to get another Met MGL in the future. 

11 minutes ago, BigGame0892 said:

This interests me.  Should I just save my money and hold out for a Metanium to use for my pitching and skipping duties?  I've heard so many people say they're incredible.

I just bought my first MGL and it is the 2nd smoothest reel I've ever used (Conquest 100 beats it by a little).  I used my Met 13 XG for pitching duties before and it is super smooth.  I can't see why the MGL would be worse at it.  Having said that, I've been using my Curado 70 XG as my primary pitching and skipping reel, this reel is great at it.  I'm not a pro at skipping, so I still backlash so I can't say how good it really is as i consider myself beginner-intermediate level, but if I can do it I'm sure all the experts can do it better than I.

5 hours ago, J Francho said:

 

Never heard of it?  Do you mean snagging?

Google power lining Chicago- that will give you a good choice of videos. Instead of casting they shoot their line with an old compressed air tank. 

Ughhh.  That's lame.

1 minute ago, J Francho said:

Ughhh.  That's lame.

That's putting it politely. 

21 hours ago, LEWITH said:

The SV tat will definitely be interesting I just don't like how wide Tatulas are compared to other reels. I think Diawa makes a great reel I just like the ergonomics of others better. You can't go wrong with either brand imo if it feels good in hand to you go with it!

 

It is a Tatula CT size not the Tatula 100 size. The CT is small.

On 2/22/2017 at 5:00 PM, runt4561 said:

keep on moving until you find lews. Shimano and lews are the only two reels I will buy now. I had a daiwa tatula and it is a good reel but it did not last like the lews or shimanos I have. Lews BB1 and super duty and Shimano Citica, Curado or Chronarch.

I love my Lew's Tournament MB.  Great reel for the money. I still prefer the Curado out of all my baitcasting reels.  Every once in a while I get sloppy with my cast and the Curado is the least likely of all of my reels to get a birdsnest when I get a little sloppy. But the Curado is usually about 50 bucks more than the Lews MB

I use to be very brand loyal myself. I was a die-hard Abu fan since the age of about 15. Last year i had some really disappointing customer service issues with them. I couldn't believe how i was treated and I'll never invest another penny in them! I slowly sold all 30 of my Revos and now am slowly rebuilding my arsenal. I have a bunch of concepts and a couple Tatula HDs that i love so far. I'm not going to worry about being brand loyal anymore and just go with what works. Heck i might even try a Shimano, maybe . . . . . .nah probably not lol!

I dont see any reason to stay loyal to any manufacture. Im still pretty new to this (this will be my 3rd season), and to be honest since my first Megabass rod I honestly dont think Ill go to any other rod manufacture. I love my new Daiwa Sv103, and plan on getting a Shimano Stradic for my new spinning set up. 

So, the transition is complete.  Time will tell, but the initial return has been nice!  A new PB smallie for me - 5.82 lbs!  Daiwa Tatula CT!

 

Congratulations!

Congrats.  Nice looking catches.