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Electric reels

Post by 4liters » Tue Apr 18, 2017 3:39 pm

Anyone use electric reels? I am curious about what they are capable of. Can a motor like that skull drag a big blue eye or whatever from down deep or is it only meant for retrieving your line quickly to check your bait?
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Post by ducky » Tue Apr 18, 2017 3:45 pm

Only limited by how deep your pockets are on this one I think. Pretty certain I've read about some having auto jigging modes

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Post by smile0784 » Tue Apr 18, 2017 3:46 pm

The whole purpose of a electic reel is to wind fish up from the deep.
I seem them pull up 60 + sharks from 130mt if depths at bermagui.

All depends on the size of your reel. Small reel small fish. big reel big fish.

The guy just hit wind in and left it and made a cup up coffee and only hand winded last 20 meters.

All depends on the motor and the battery you have. The guy who i seen using it reel was about the size of a penn international 30 attached to a gulf cart buggie battery.

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Re: Electric reels

Post by smile0784 » Tue Apr 18, 2017 3:46 pm

Reels start at about $1200 and go up i think

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Post by purple5ive » Tue Apr 18, 2017 3:50 pm

yes you can skull drag fish from the deep. plenty of videos on youtube.some have the ability to even adjust retrieve when fish run, just like how a drag on a normal reel works. you can also manually wind them in

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Post by Fish-cador » Tue Apr 18, 2017 4:14 pm

I am not going to buy expensive electric reels to skull drag a big fish. I might as well buy a $200 4X4 winch, load it with braid line and use it to pull a submarine from the depths.

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Post by 4liters » Tue Apr 18, 2017 5:37 pm

Thanks for the replies. I'm not in the market for one right this instant, I was just curious about what they could do as I'd heard that some had issues that arose with the drag and the motor when people winched in fish instead of winding them up by hand
2015/16 Fisting Victoria Species comp total: 289cm
Brown Trout: 37cm
Flathead: 51cm; Squid: 36cm; Australian Salmon: 51cm; Snapper 46cm; Silver Trevally 23cm; KGW: 45cm
Major Sponsor: Rim Master Tackle

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