Anyone have any experiences with the nautil 7500 pro. I am looking to get one(real cheap on ebay) for my new batson. I have heard good and bad things. Anything I should lookout for.

I've been using one all season and have had no problems. Have it spooled up w/ 50lb Stealth and never had a birdnest at all this summer. The only issue I can think of with it is that sometimes its a little tough to dis-engage the spool because of the rubber casing. Other than that I've been very happy w/ it.

Riverrat,

Go to the search forum and enter "nautil 7500".
You should be able get some good info through that search.
Nice meeting you the other night.

Rich

Whoops tons of posts on it, sorry tlapinski. Nice meeting all of you guys too bad we didn't get into more fish, hopefully I will be able to get down with mike a few more times this fall.

what batson is it?

i got a 6500 (used slighly) like last year, the line roller rusted out because i just treated the real horribly. but i fixed that and ended up making it bail-less. works nice on my lighter plug rod, use it for poppers and rubber jerks mostly. fine with braid.

ps. this reel hasnt seen much sand. so its really not getting much abuse.

I have the original "yellow" neptune. no probs. Although I don't really fish it that much anymore.