12 minutes ago, Cbump said:

I know what I bought. Revo Ike obviously lol

Yeah so anyways my obviously poor analogy was meant to say you need to know how to make the reel work for you and not knowing what brakes it has will not let the reel work for you. Don't need to be any sort of tech guru (and I am definitely not myself) to know you should know the basic functionality of the reel. Now you know to look in the future. 

I think I poorly portrayed myself in this entire, obviously joke, overly exaggerated, thread. In no way have a spent months and thousands of backlashes just dumbly casting this reel. 
It’s a technique specific setup, as all of mine are. I had probably casted It 10 times in the yard with backlashes but didn’t care enough to mess with It at the time. Usually get on the water and jack with the spool tension and external brake setting to get It right and go from there. 
I finally wanted to use the technique it’s for the other night and after 5 backlashes in a row no matter what I changed externally, I thought, you know what, I bet this thing has internal brakes. 5 minutes later I was up and running. 
Despite what you ask may think, I’m actually not an idiot, i do know what internal brakes are, and once I cared enough to check if that was my problem, It was taken care of easily. 
 

Again, this is why I like my daiwas. Always been able to cast any lure, right out of the box from my fuegos to my zillion. I definitely don’t prefer opening the reel up on the water to mess with internal brakes. 

27 minutes ago, Cbump said:

Again, this is why I like my daiwas. Always been able to cast any lure, right out of the box from my fuegos to my zillion. I definitely don’t prefer opening the reel up on the water to mess with internal brakes. 

Lew's externally adjustable centrifugal systems would be right up your alley.

I’ve had Lews and liked them well enough. Just sold a Hyper Mag and ordered a Zillion. Just like them better. Personal preference. 

1 hour ago, Cbump said:

I’ve had Lews and liked them well enough. Just sold a Hyper Mag and ordered a Zillion. Just like them better. Personal preference. 

Me too. Love my Daiwa reels. They just work for me. I still have Lew's (2-P&S) that I enjoy, but overall my Tatura's just fit my fishing style. 

 

To each his own.  

Not quite the same, but I took a new-to-me used Curado K out one day and couldn't prevent a backlash no matter what I did. At one point I took the sideplate off and noticed that the latch wouldn't quite close all the way when I put it back on. I figured I'd done something to ruin the Curado. Finally gave up and went back to the truck and got my spinning rig.

 

On the way home I suddenly remembered that on some reels, you have to loosen the tension knob before you put the sideplate back on, otherwise it won't close properly. Once I got home and did that, sure enough the latch clicked closed just like it should. No problems since, although I never did figure out why I couldn't get it dialed in initially that day. Maybe I'd taken the sideplate off the trip before and forgot. I don't know. 

 

 

16 minutes ago, Dash Riprock said:

Not quite the same, but I took a new-to-me used Curado K out one day and couldn't prevent a backlash no matter what I did. At one point I took the sideplate off and noticed that the latch wouldn't quite close all the way when I put it back on. I figured I'd done something to ruin the Curado. Finally gave up and went back to the truck and got my spinning rig.

 

On the way home I suddenly remembered that on some reels, you have to loosen the tension knob before you put the sideplate back on, otherwise it won't close properly. Once I got home and did that, sure enough the latch clicked closed just like it should. No problems since, although I never did figure out why I couldn't get it dialed in initially that day. Maybe I'd taken the sideplate off the trip before and forgot. I don't know. 

 

 

Leave the tension that loose.  Spool tension so great that the side plate won't latch is telling you something.  That something is "please stop".  Its not a daiwa zero adjust breakthrough.  Every baitcast reel should have no or very little spool tension.

5 minutes ago, Tatulatard said:

Leave the tension that loose.  Spool tension so great that the side plate won't latch is telling you something.  That something is "please stop".  Its not a daiwa zero adjust breakthrough.  Every baitcast reel should have no or very little spool tension.

I didn't think I had it that tight. I adjust them so the lure falls freely but the spool stops when it hits the ground, then make my adjustments with the brake control. I thought that's what you're supposed to do (I realize some Daiwa's are different). 

8 hours ago, Dash Riprock said:

I adjust them so the lure falls freely but the spool stops when it hits the ground

That is very tight but as long as it works for you.  If there continues to be issues with attaching the side plate then it is likely that the spools tension will need to be backed off each time as it is being ran at a higher setting then the reel was designed for use.

On 8/16/2022 at 6:33 AM, MN Fisher said:

I guess I'm the odd-ball. When I buy a reel, I go through the instructions to make sure I know what-is-what.

Who reads the instructions anymore?

 

I line it up with Tatsu and immediately take it on the water and then figure out why I'm cutting out $25 worth of line afterwards

I have three or four Shimano JDM Scorpions. I love the reel, very smooth, casts very well but was very touchy casting and backlash prone. I had read a post on this forum about someone with a Chronarch that instead of the usual two brakes on two off.  Using all four brakes on made his Chronarch perform much better.  I tried the same thing with the Scorpions and it was a world of difference.  The touchyness casting was gone and I could throw my 1/2 oz spinner bait with the dinner plate blades and balsa crank baits into the wind once again with confidence.

FM

 p.s. I haven't learned how to read Japanese yet.