05-11-2007, 03:02 AM
[font "Poor Richard"][green][size 3][cool]Good advise there Tarpon4me. Sound like you must have written the instructional manuals for the reel manufacturers. LOL. I have some really old bait casters [no longer in service] that the main drag was the thumb. Saw a young guy a while back running a shake down on his new bait caster. Guess he must have thought that with all the adjustment on the new reels the use of the thumb was no longer required. Wow I never saw such a mess. Neither did the nesting birds in the area. A bait caster certainly requires a bit more attention to what one is doing than a spinning system particularly to a newbie.[/size][/green][/font]
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