Thread: Balancing a new rig

If your going to your folks this weekend holler at me and you can try my bonehead/president out Pappa .

Thanks Redge but I gots to cut a tree up this weekend, a BIG one. If anybody needs some hardwood to sink let me know. I can store it for a little while but at some point it will become a fire hazard. Let me know.

I have always like Brownings but it has been years since I have bought a new reel.


Bobo

Papa,

I have been using a President 6925 and just traded in an old reel last night for a President 6920 bc I liked the 1st one so much for the price. I have also used Shimano Sedona 500's. The Shimano's probably have a better drag system but not as many bearings, although they are very smooth for a 5 bearing reel. The President's have 7 to 10 bearings depending on the model. For the longer rod you will want to go up at least one size. Probably a 6925 or 6930 in the Pfleuger or the 1000 models of the Shimano.

Originally Posted by Ranger09

Nope Notta Never have 9. I is usually just wear em plum out and send em back to repair center in Sunny Cali and have them totally repaired for $19. Spirex and Scynopate are the models I have. For the price the Scynopate is hard to beat.....Ranger

Ranger,

Is that a Shimano repair center? I have a Sedona 500 with a weak bail spring I'd like to get fixed. Love the reel other than that. Do you have an address or contact # for them? It would be worth $20 to get it repaired since they're $60 new.

No it's in California. Look online for repair and service. For a weak spring I would check with your local Yellow pages there are several local repair shops around that can do that without sending it off. BP can also help with finding shops for you

Cool. Thank you. I didn't think there was anyone local (Tulsa area) any more since Okie Bait & Tackle closed.

Thought I would throw out a very small, high quality, inexpensive spinning reel for those that like the little ones. I saw many on the Texas Fishing forum, Crappie section raving about the Pinnacle Tiny Deadbolt last year so I bought one. I haven't used it much yet Crappie fishing but have for some smaller stuff. It seems to be very well made and certainly fits the 'inexpensive' category. I would chose it over one of the small Crappie dedicated inexpensive reels.
http://www.academy.com/shop/pdp/pinn...nded/pid-11405
I've only used it with Viscious panfish so far but I'm going to load some Bonehead on it and put it on an old 6' All Star light action I have.