On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:22:45 -0400, D. LaCourse wrote:

On 2010-10-27 16:22:35 -0400, " said:

On Oct 27, 10:14*am, D. LaCourse wrote:

What's your idea for a good bonefish rod/reel? *

I use a 4-piece 8wt Sage Z-Axis tip action with a 9wt sharkskin line
and an Abel Super 8 reel. Works for me.

I was thinking about a Loomis GLX, 8wt, 9 foot. It gets pretty good
reviews and I have own/fished with a number of Loomis' rods over the
years and have always been very satisfied. Wellllll... the same could
be said about Sages and Winstons...d;o) I agree with your choice of a
reel.

Why? I've nothing particularly _against_ the reel, and certainly nothing
against the former owners, but the Tibor/Billy Pate is a better and slightly
cheaper reel, and now, it's a much more solid bet that it will enjoy support
from the manufacturer...if Abel is still around in a year or two, they may be
owned by Madoff's (father and/or son) creditors (or his ex-wife or...) and the
son doesn't have a good record with FFing-related companies and positive
outcomes...(Google "Andrew/Andy Madoff and "Urban Angler" for some of the
details, and "lock and hackle miami" for some more...)

All of this is still in the "dreaming" stage, but fishing bones in some
far-off tropic isle has always been on my "bucket list".

I take it from the above that you've not done much, if any, flats/bonefishing?
If so, why the Abel?


HTH,
R

Thanks for your input.

Dave