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09-23-2005, 07:26 AM
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What Bait?
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Lowell, MA
Posts: 112
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If you think in the future you might be fishing bait occasionally or livelining, baitrunners have done well by me just make sure there is a "B" at the end of the model #. The original series without the B are not nearly as good.
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09-23-2005, 07:38 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Quincy
Posts: 4,145
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If your'e not deadsticking with bait, I don't see why you would need a baitrunner.
This year I got the shimano stradic, sweet smooth reel. But pricey..
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09-23-2005, 07:41 AM
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Boston Anglah
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Sitting on top of the world with my legs hangin free
Posts: 3,322
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Originally Posted by Van
If your'e not deadsticking with bait, I don't see why you would need a baitrunner.
This year I got the shimano stradic, sweet smooth reel. But pricey..
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they are nice for eelin and bait but other than that, too heavy...Go with the Stradic's silky smooth I got a few of them and baitrunners, but they do more sittin than fishin....... |
Used hard and put away dirty....
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09-23-2005, 09:35 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: plymouth,ma
Posts: 1,142
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I've got 2 baitrunners.
Both of them sitting on a shelf in my garage with broken anti-reverse. Also my 6500 which I did use pretty heavily for fishing herring for a few springs is no where near as smooth as it used to be...
I've been trying to stay away from bait this year so I didn't even bother fix them.
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09-23-2005, 09:40 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: SE Mass
Posts: 194
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I have 2 4500's and a 6500. They're awesome reels. As far as the second drag system goes I find I use it a lot even when plugging for letting out line, reaching for the lure at the end of the line, etc. I really miss it when I'm using my penn 6500 which btw, is way heavier than either shimano.
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09-23-2005, 10:30 AM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
Posts: 18,204
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I picked up a Stradic earlier in the Season and love it. Very solid reel...you won't be disappointed
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"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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09-23-2005, 09:23 PM
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bass addict
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: south shore,ma
Posts: 182
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Originally Posted by Youngmoon74
If you think in the future you might be fishing bait occasionally or livelining, baitrunners have done well by me just make sure there is a "B" at the end of the model #. The original series without the B are not nearly as good.
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I would beg to differ on this... I also have three baitrunners that are over 10 yrs old... no problem with any of them... did pick up a "B" model last year and it does not have the "feel" of the older ones... when I was up to surfland talking to kay she said she has had a lot of the new ones come in with problems... apparently she said the older ones had better bearing... she stated that she opened one new one that had virtually no bearings left.... and this is what made shimmano what they are... their bearings... |
one more cast.....
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