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I was so concerned when I picked up my first 8:1 reel. Damn I was so wrong. They fit my style so well it is just sick. For bottom bouncing, buzzbaits and frogs it is the ultimate speed. I have found for slow rolling small swimbaits over grass is great with the 8:1 as well. it is now almost the end of April, I have fished Florida only since November and not one day did I fish anything with success but bottom bouncing, buzzbaits, frogs, senko's and swimbaits. Based on hard data about how I fish it appears the 6:3 is what I should eliminate.
I guess I'm saying cranks, spinnerbaits,etc is now where I'm catching 2% of my fish.
I guess I'm saying cranks, spinnerbaits,etc is now where I'm catching 2% of my fish.
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36 inches per turn is what my 8:1 are. I have the 7:1 version and I don't see much loss of cranking power going from the 8 to the 7. These seems about speed mostly.
My 6:1 ratios vary in speed from 25 to 28.
My 6:1 ratios vary in speed from 25 to 28.
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I fish 6.3:1 a lot, pretty much all my moving baits except deep cranks. I have more 6.3:1 reels than the faster rations. I like the faster ratios for bottom contact especial went I am target fishing.
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exactly, I think this is mostly a question of what techniques you use most. When I used to make Kentucky Lake my typical fishing hole I tossed cranks and spinnerbaits far more then I do now that I fish mostly Florida.
This past Feb I put a deep diver on a 7:1 ratio 32ipt reel because that is all I had handy. This was a complete fail. Way too fast and I had a hard time slowing down my retrieve. Need the right reel for the job at hand.
This past Feb I put a deep diver on a 7:1 ratio 32ipt reel because that is all I had handy. This was a complete fail. Way too fast and I had a hard time slowing down my retrieve. Need the right reel for the job at hand.
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Re: 6.3:1
Frogging a negative with the 6.3:1? Bryan thrift used it at Clearlake and seemed to do just fine .
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People have used 6.3:1 as a standard "high speed" ratio since about the late 1980s early 1990s using all the techniques we use today. Frogging was done back then with 6's and I am sure fish were caught just fine. My initial question was more about why everyone seems to be going faster and faster and is it a trend.
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The argument that "it worked in the past" or that "person x uses it with great success" is immaterial except (and this is a significant exception) if you're trying to avoid making another purchase because your current 6.3:1 is inadequate to the task. Of course you can fish almost any technique successfully with a 6:1 reel. The same can be said about 5:1 and 8:1 reels. But the question here is whether you are better served for the techniques mentioned, using a faster reel. For most people, the answer is yes. That's about as close to an answer as you're going to get because it still depends on your own preferences and ability to adapt. It's possible that you won't be able to get used to--or at least won't like--managing slack line for walking a frog because the line pickup is too fast and it doesn't allow you to give the bait the slack it needs to walk. But honestly, most people will be able to adjust to that quite quickly, and generally the ability to pick up line more quickly is beneficial for most presentations.
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very simple for me. the 8:1 is a better tool for some things. I tried, I liked, it became my norm. For the guy who pitches to targets it is a huge improvement as I can likely make 5 pitches now for every 4 simply because the bait is back in the boat asap and ready to go out againBig-Bass wrote:People have used 6.3:1 as a standard "high speed" ratio since about the late 1980s early 1990s using all the techniques we use today. Frogging was done back then with 6's and I am sure fish were caught just fine. My initial question was more about why everyone seems to be going faster and faster and is it a trend.
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My type of fishing is a little different so this reply may well be irrelevant, I bought my first truly high speed reel a few years ago, it was the blue and red 2nd generation zillion Pe special 7.9:1. Loved everything about this reel (except those Eva handle knobs which were promptly changed out for "I" knobs) till I hooked up on a good Barramundi. Pure and simply I ran out of torque and the reel felt cumbersome to wind against the fish, thinking it was just me I gave it a season and could not get comfortable with this reel, I had to drop the rod too much to take the pressure off so I could crank the reel and not keeping tight cost me a few fish! This reel now has a 7.3 type r gear set in it. So 6.3 to 7.3 for me
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I don't know how big the fish you are catching is but I could see that. I've not had that problem and I recently had a personal best 12.55 pound largemouth bass which was right on the heels by about 3 months of my first double digit fish. Both on the 8:1. Zero issues other then maybe this. I have noticed at times that I get the fish to the boat so fast that it has too much energy. I experience as many as 3 runs from the boat.
On the positive side, I can't tell you how many times when fishing a Senko I was a able to catch up to the fish rather quickly before setting the hook.
On the positive side, I can't tell you how many times when fishing a Senko I was a able to catch up to the fish rather quickly before setting the hook.
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I find you lose too much torque with high speed reels , anything faster than 7.3:1 and its a struggle to get in big fish.