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Since you mentioned it above, I have and love love love my Gekkabijin X. It has quickly become my favorite eggbeater. I have it on a 2 pc ML rod that stays in the xterra. I've used it extensively, and I've caught some 4-6# fish with it. I have zero complaints, and it is still as smooth as day one. I...

dennis_rf wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 04, 2023 11:04 pm

hoohoorjoo wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 04, 2023 10:41 pm

The Gravity BFS has my attention.

You mean the re-branded Haibo Arise Air

Saw that one on aliexpress. Didn't know that they are the same reel.

The Gravity BFS has my attention.

Man, that sucks! He has been a great fixture here, though he took a break here the last several years(he told me to spend with his grandkids). He will be missed, for sure.

Tokugawa wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 22, 2023 1:07 pm

Does the app have an English mode?

Looking at the translation, I think that's what it means about 'unavailable outside Japan'. Not literally unavailable, but that it's only in Japanese language and script.

A soldering iron set to low might soften the epoxy enough to lay those pokey fibers flat. A heat gun would work also, but you will need to be very careful.

Has anybody received shipping information on their pre-orders? I haven't, but did email them a couple days ago asking when they'd be shipping out as my wife and I just bought a new house so needed to know whether to change my shipping address or not (plus when I ordered it stated 3-5 weeks and has ...

Cal, Are all the guides on this rod Recoils, or just the running guides? If the stripper guide is a Recoil, did you try casting with a leader knot of, say, 30 lb. (or heavier) braid and 15 lb. (or heavier) leader of nylon mono or fluorocarbon? (I have some concern about whether leader knots would p...

If you can birdnest it, then yes, it's a lemon.

I was pretty excited and finally got my Expride 7'2 MH spinning rod last week, got it out of the shipping tube and did my typical inspections, not even 15 minutes into it and the rod is back in the shipping tube and shipped it back on the same day for a refund. The reason? the blank was not straigh...

I was pretty excited and finally got my Expride 7'2 MH spinning rod last week, got it out of the shipping tube and did my typical inspections, not even 15 minutes into it and the rod is back in the shipping tube and shipped it back on the same day for a refund. The reason? the blank was not straigh...

What happens when a rod goes clicking on the cast is usually when a rod has been flex to the point where the epoxy on the line guides has cracked. The threads are still holding the foot of the line guides but the epoxy bonding may no longer be fully bonded. While the line guide still remains in pla...

Open the sideplate, remove the spool and sit it in front of a fan on high.

I have to agree with you on the HEG gears since I own 2 scorpion dc and they're awesome reels, but the noise issues I'm having with these reels aren't related to MM gears since it only started happening after I applied oil to these bearings and can hear it only while casting but smooth and quite du...

The sandy/sandy gritty feeling has been discussed at length here. In many instances, it has been premature gear wear/failure. The micro module gears have had problems, so much so that many people put the equivalent brass Curado gears into other reels that had aluminum MM gearing. I wish they had nev...