abu garcia 5000 - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

mrmacey · 02-08-2003, 08:58 PM

with graphite rod, the rod is a little banged up but could someone tell me what this reel is worth its brand new just came from store had 9.99 cent price tag minus 10o/o 8.99 i got whole thing for!! looked like a bargain but i cant find this type on garcia web sites!!
thanks!!

Christian · 02-09-2003, 08:40 AM

i think thats the one with bushings not bearing so its probally not more than $50. maybe less. they have ones like that at walmart, all bushings. bearings good, bushings bad.

JohnR · 02-09-2003, 08:44 AM

Christian's on the money... Good flOOking rod but not an good caster... I would upgrade the drags if you are going to do bahhsss & Blooohs with it...

mrmacey · 02-09-2003, 10:43 AM

alot to beef up the drag on this whats involved and is it worth it!! the rod broke! hey goose remember what you told me not to do I DID IT!! SNAP!

Fishpart · 02-09-2003, 05:52 PM

Drag washers very easy to change. Mike T has smoothie and extreme smoothie drag washers. They need to coe apart whne you clean the reel anyway so wy not swap washers......

JohnR · 02-09-2003, 06:34 PM

Yeh, the drags are easy to swap when cleaning. And it's not that it's a BAD caster just not one of the better ones and it does take longer to break in with the bushings...

Canalratt1 · 02-09-2003, 07:41 PM

Good deal! They thing with bushings is they last forever.

mrmacey · 02-09-2003, 08:20 PM

i would like to set it up for down the thames type fishing real lite line for jigging split tales any ideas for rod type and line! never used a bait caster except to drop it down and jig alittle thanks what is the real purpose of bait casters!!