Surf Equipment guestions,

[ecduzitgood]

Originally Posted by Islander77

WTF:confus ed: ok ok ok I throw convench.. Thats a "baitcast" you sound like your talking about a shimano BAIT RUNNER or penn live liner here which are BAIT FRIENDLY SPINING REELS... To the best of my knowledge VS does NOT make a conventional.... only spin reels...

Take it easy who are you addressing ?

[Islander77]

Originally Posted by ecduzitgood

Take it easy who are you addressing ?

Not ment in any bad way.... Was confused thats all.. Again didnt mean any of that in a bad way

[ecduzitgood]

Originally Posted by Islander77

Not ment in any bad way.... Was confused thats all.. Again didnt mean any of that in a bad way

Not a problem islander. I think it's just my age and after thinking about it I fiqured I had to be taking it the wrong way. It also looked like texting and that is something I loath; once again it's probably my age. My folks used to hate my rock'n'roll music because they listened to country and talk radio, both of which I vowed I would never like. Time has proven me wrong; because now I enjoy both...go figure. I am glad you thought enough of me to make sure I wasn't offended, for that I say THANK YOU! It's all good
Ed

[Islander77]

Originally Posted by ecduzitgood

Not a problem islander. I think it's just my age and after thinking about it I fiqured I had to be taking it the wrong way. It also looked like texting and that is something I loath; once again it's probably my age. My folks used to hate my rock'n'roll music because they listened to country and talk radio, both of which I vowed I would never like. Time has proven me wrong; because now I enjoy both...go figure. I am glad you thought enough of me to make sure I wasn't offended, for that I say THANK YOU! It's all good
Ed

Ed no problem I hear ya on the country and talk radio thing as well.. And im 32

[Saltheart]

Some reels used to have a "fighting drag". That involved a dial on the rear of the reel and a lever. The lever was free spool. The dial could be set to the desired drag level and then a marker was rotated into place by pushing it in and turning the marker. If you didn't push the marker in , it traveled with the drag knob.

So you set the drag where you wanted it to fight a fish. Then you moved the marker to 12 oclock for that drag setting. then instead of total free spool (using the lever) you could back the drag knob way off for a sort of strile or bait runner drag. Once the fish took the offereing , you could instantly tighten the drag so the marker was again at 12 oclock, This enable a very rapid return to the fish fighting setting and the loose drag but not free spool while the bait was out.

A fighting drag it was called