04-30-2009, 11:35 PM
Oh yea and remoc I've had a Abu garcia Ambas
or 5500 for years and years and it's a little scratched up but works as well today as the day I bought it. Keep it oiled regularly, clean it up regularly and that reel will last you many, many years.
Oh and about medium or heavy. A medium rod is going to be more sensitive to strikes, especially when finesse fishing plastics or smaller spinner baits and shallow running crank baits. I usually don't use a heavy rod unless (like I stated before) I'm fishing heavy cover for lunkers, I do have on heavy 6'6'' rod just for that purpose rigged with 14lb test line and a shakespeare tidewater reel.
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or 5500 for years and years and it's a little scratched up but works as well today as the day I bought it. Keep it oiled regularly, clean it up regularly and that reel will last you many, many years. Oh and about medium or heavy. A medium rod is going to be more sensitive to strikes, especially when finesse fishing plastics or smaller spinner baits and shallow running crank baits. I usually don't use a heavy rod unless (like I stated before) I'm fishing heavy cover for lunkers, I do have on heavy 6'6'' rod just for that purpose rigged with 14lb test line and a shakespeare tidewater reel.
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