That's right. Daiwa, the company that used to be rubble just a few years back has joined the ranks of the Shimano Stella and Van Staal reels.
Looking through what Daiwa has to offer, they now have a reel in the 400-500 dollar range. Is it just me or is this becoming an alarming trend? Do you think these reels are really worth the money or are companies looking at the prices people will pay and figuring they can get away with murder.
Pretty soon, we'll be telling our kids or grand kids about the cheap days of fishing where you could get good gear for under 700 bucks.
On another note of the Daiwa reels, I'm looking at these Emblem reels. I see those fish that nice guy Sergio catches and if they can put up to a 30lb weakfish, I figure they can handle some stripers. The main thing that I see different to these reels is the spool design. Most of our standard spools have a deep lip but the Diawas are different. Large shallow spool design. Looks interesting to say the least.
Now onto the Harnell catalog. I ordered it a few days ago from their website and they sent it out personally addressed by hand with three stamps in the corner. I know I'm young but I think that says a lot about the company. You look at Cabelas and BassPro shops, as much as I love flipping through their catalogs, but it's all too sterile, too mass produced. I'm quite impressed on the personal service they put into just sending me the catalog!
Oh yeah, one more thing. I've seen a lot of stuff on Great White sharks lately, you know, just around the net
. My hobby since I was a little guy has been sharks and I can say I've seen just about every shark video known to man. Probably more than once. A great white wouldn't swallow you whole, in fact just about any shark alive today wouldn't. The only shark I know of that could do that of any era is the Megalodon. The Megalodon is an ancient relative to the Great white that is believed to be extinct. The tooth of a large white shark is about the size of your middle finger. The size of a megalodon would start from the tip of your middle finger past your wrist. This was a massive shark, feeding on giant squid and whales like you would toss back popcorn shrimp.
Anyways, if you were to be attacked by a white shark, it would come up and clamp down on you and then release you. If it liked your taste, he would come back around and hit you from beneath. It's lights out from there. You figure the average male weighs around 170lbs and white sharks can weigh a ton or a ton and a half, it's lights out if he comes back.
The shark I would fear on the east coast is the bull shark. They are very aggressive. They are also known to go up rivers. A few years back, a large bull shark weighing either 200 or 400lbs (a fish of that size, does it really matter?) was caught quite a few miles from the saltwater in the ChopTank river, a tributary of the Chesapeake I believe. Being on the way from OC, MD back to Baltimore, I pleaded with my parents to pull over for a few casts but no luck.
It's rare that a white shark would travel into freshwater but it has happened. In the early 20th century, a white shark went up a river in NJ and wound up killing 5 people.
If you do get attacked by a shark while wading, chances are it's going to be a brown sandbar shark. Dangerous but not a threatening species. He will just be going after your eelbag or stringer. Whack him one in the snout and he should swim off. Sharks have strong sensory pits in their snouts and will be deterred if whacked.
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