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Yep, I agree. That's what I am talking about above when I mentioned the Emblem pro but also quite a few reels I don't know well that Dave had shown me at HJ's booth at MSBA. There's such a big change in both the reels and the rods that its going to take a lot of thought and gathering info to settle in on some combo's that will be fairly optimum for a decade like the XRA/Abu BG7000 combo was for me. Also the builds need to be figured out for each possible combination if they are to be really tweaked for performance as a fishing system.
Oh well , looking at , testing, combining fishing gear is a lot of fun all on its own!
What I really think the newer spinner reels should have is strong sealed gear sections that are fairly small and light but large tapered spools for the braid and about 2 to 3 degrees upsweep so that choker location can be strongly optimized using the spool diameter and the upsweep in the hybrid concept builds. With that kind of reel geometry it becomes easier to get the gathering guidse in line concentrically with the rest of the reduction guides. The reels Dave showed me appeared to fit the bill but my mind is a total blank as to what reels (brands, model numbers, etc) they were.
For me ,another lucky coincidence is the timing of the introduction of both the Century Stealth blanks and the KW guides. It could not have been better if they (Century and Fuji) had planned these events together. The blanks and those guides seem to be made for eachother (although those L sizes in the KW guides are a little behind the schedule and they are needed).
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