i cant speak for the others, but the daiwa revros is a crap entry level reel and to me im wasting my money on those sort of reels, id buy a caldia/gen black/freams as a budget reel.. it will still do everything you want it to do.rb85 wrote:I own a range of gear from Stradics, Salinas, Azores, Daiwa Revros, Bait runners, Charter specials. These can be used for fishing for Snapper, Gummies etc and even for casting lures or trolling small skirts for Pelagic Species. These would be mid range product which will last a lot longer than entry level gear for the amount of fishing I do but also don't break the budget.purple5ive wrote:rb85, out of curiosity mate, what sort of gear do you own.
you seem to be of the opinion that the expensive gear is a waste of money. so what in your opinion is value for money for bread and butter species.
Expensive gear is not a waste of money for the right application Purple. If I take up Game fishing and am going to do it regularly I won't purchase TLD's will be Tiagras or Makaira's.
The construction and Drag system of a reel like a Stella is created for game like performance in a spin reel and anyone who targets calamari knows you don't need a reel to perform at the level a Stella was built for.
as for the stella on calamari, daiwa market the emraldas as a egi reel, it has 8kg of drag (for squid, wtf for??) and the emeraldas collosal, and few other models have hyper digigear (almost the very best of gearing) and are very highly sought after.
why bother with those reels when all your trying to catch is squid or bread and butter, well the feel you get when using a high end is obviously the reason, not the extra drag, or made for bigger species, but just the pure factor of FEEL. they certainly do feel a lot nicer to use than a reel that will do the same job for 1/4 of the price.
i certainly will never do it, as i cant justify the cost, but if others can afford to do then it then so be it.
and ps im going with cheap game setups, i certainly will never ever buy a dogfight mainly due to me not fishing game enough, but what i have got should still handle the fish that i plan to use it on. so just because its cheap doesnt mean it cant do the heavy stuff either.
i have the BG6500 and BG4000 and they come with carbon drag as std, plus some higher gear ratios than normal, time will tell how reliable they are...
Now i feel like an effing fool!!!
