HideHunter
03-02-2017, 02:54 PM
This is me shaking my head.. Another post where, were I *smart* enough to keep my mouth shut, people wouldn't know how *dumb* I am.. Got a dirt-cheap deal on a Diawa Millionare baitcaster last year. Spooled it up with 60# braid and took it fishing. I was really pretty impressed with how smooth it was.. cast like a dream.
Second trip out, I noticed the drag was slipping.. didn't seem to make any difference how much I tightened it down. When I got home I looked it up on the WWW (thanks Al) and saw the drag was definitely viewed as the weak point on this reel. Grumbled a little and tossed it in the "junk" drawer.
Fast forward to about and hour ago. I ran across it and decided to tear it apart. Before I did, I tightened the drag and pulled on the line.. Pretty much nothing.. Then... somehow - I noticed it didn't look as though the spool was turning.. Long story short.. the line was slipping on the spool.. 60+ years of fishing.. never saw it before... This getting old is going to be a real inconvenience. :banghead
Second trip out, I noticed the drag was slipping.. didn't seem to make any difference how much I tightened it down. When I got home I looked it up on the WWW (thanks Al) and saw the drag was definitely viewed as the weak point on this reel. Grumbled a little and tossed it in the "junk" drawer.
Fast forward to about and hour ago. I ran across it and decided to tear it apart. Before I did, I tightened the drag and pulled on the line.. Pretty much nothing.. Then... somehow - I noticed it didn't look as though the spool was turning.. Long story short.. the line was slipping on the spool.. 60+ years of fishing.. never saw it before... This getting old is going to be a real inconvenience. :banghead