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On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:32:02 -0600, ray wrote:

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:06:55 +0000, Julie wrote:

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Abu, Daiwa, Shimano, which is the best?They each have their pluses
and they each have their minuses. It's really a case of you pays your
money and you makes your choice! Each make of reel has it's devotees,
who swear by what they use themselves, even though sometimes they know
there are weak points, that could be improved upon. I even saw one
post to a forum, where a certain make of reel had a 'clicky' handle.
The devotee to this reel cured this problem by forcing some fishing
line into the gap to cure the problem. He then went on to say how
pleased he was with the reel.Albert.BWebmaster http://fishingcave.com

THey all suck for fly fishing.wtf drug are you on? Personally I am
impressed with the sage 1600.

I'm pretty much into 'cheap' myself. I don't see the point in a $50 fly
reel - what does it really do?

Er, all make decent FFing reels and at least Abu and Daiwa make
perfectly adequate "line holder" reels that can be had for under $50USD
even with the current weak dollar. I don't know about Shimano making
inexpensive reels, but they do make some decent FFing reels (well over
$50.00, even with a record-strong dollar), as does Daiwa. I have both a
mid-to-upper range (from about 10 years ago) Daiwa and a Shimano and
while I'd not say they were "go-to" reels _for me_, they are certainly
model competitive against similar offerings from more
well-known-in-the-US makers. IIRC, Peter Charles has at least one Daiwa
reel that he holds (or at least held) in fairly high regard. AFAIK,
none of the above are manufacturer-marketed in the US. And in any case,
good ol' Albert B. can still take some caulk, carpet tacks, the reels
and his tackle and shove the whole mess up his spammin' ass...

R

For the Spey fisherman on a budget I would look into TiCa. You can get
a 11/12 weight cnc machined reel for $55.
http://www.troutlet.com/Scripts/prod...?idproduct=526