Introduction: Industry trends are a difficult path to resist - especially when talking about the most hotly contested segment in the bass fishing industry namely low profile casting reels. It seems each and every manufacturer is aiming for smaller, lighter, higher performing thanks in no small part, we're pretty sure, to our readership. Bucking that trend in a way this year is Quantum with a total, ground up redesign of their popular Smoke platform. We had the opportunity this year to talk to Michael Whitman, Senior Product Engineer at Quantum to walk us through the design considerations for the manufacturer's new Smoke, Series 3 casting reel.
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