Baitcaster Suggestions?

basscaster wrote:

Save your gift certificate for a good 7 ft. medium rod. Buy a used Curado c-200(old green machine) in 6/1. You can find them all day for $60-$80. Buy one in great shape, these reels will limit backlash and can be abused and the reel still looks like new. If you need one email me and I will sell you one for $75 shipped.

Hate to tell you this as a former “greenie” fan myself. But as soon I cast a Tatula I sold all my Greeneis for $60-80 and turned them all into $40-20 tatulas.

There is NO comparison. But I appreciate you love your greenies…..

Longer casting, smoother, great drag WAAAAAAAY more comfortable to palm as it sits way lower on the rod (alomst on the rod itself).

I urge you to sell a greenie and drop the $40 difference on a Tat. You will thank us.

basscaster wrote:

Save your gift certificate for a good 7 ft. medium rod. Buy a used Curado c-200(old green machine) in 6/1. You can find them all day for $60-$80. Buy one in great shape, these reels will limit backlash and can be abused and the reel still looks like new. If you need one email me and I will sell you one for $75 shipped.

I already got the reel. And I don’t think I would trust anyones review pimping a model that tries to sell me one in the end.

I can’t wait to go and try the reel again with the proper settings. I was tuning it like a normal baitcaster, even though I knew I read something about tensioning just enough so there was no lateral movement of the spool.

So as I have seen from our old thread and online videos you basically set the tensioner once, backing off slightly when you dial it down to no lateral movement. After that it is all how you set the brakes depending on the conditions and lure weight.

Am I right?

It was tuned much better this time. I’m not noticing much difference in distance, but I’m still using a bulky worm with a light weight. I am noticing a difference in the line coming off the reel nicely. No need to thumb when the brakes are on high. A little thumbing needed when they are low, but it’s a huge difference in preventing backlash and worth it.

Awesome! Can’t wait for the lakes to thaw so I can get in the boat and pitch into some reeds or docks for some big girls!

Now that I know what I am doing, I can’t get over how smooth the reel is and easy it is to tune to prevent backlash. I was casting a spinner bait and it was getting me more distance, if not the same as my other reels, with a lot less effort.

The other day it was broken in on a fish…a white catfish that took my Culprit worm on the drop. I haven’t caught one in a while and this one was scrappy. Fought like a bass without the jumps.

Last night I noticed the pond is coming alive now. The fishing should be good the next few months. The tilapia are building nests which means the panfish should be coming in soon with the bass right behind them.

Friday Ebay had 20% off the entire site. I bought a Tatula SV for $103 shipped. Dumb me I should have bought 4 or 5.

I just received by ebay Tatula. I paid 20% more than you did. I’m a little slow on the uptake. Casted in the driveway today. My son couldn’t even get a backlash, and he’s pretty good at getting backlashes.

wormdunker wrote:

Friday Ebay had 20% off the entire site. I bought a Tatula SV for $103 shipped. Dumb me I should have bought 4 or 5.

Still a great deal.

I haven’t been fishing a ton and when I do I have only been using the SV TW. I don’t know if anyone else has this feeling too, but I feel like I am casting a heavier lure than I actually am. I assume it’s because of the spool or I am imagining things.

Seems like it is going to take me a while to be as accurate as the other reels I use, mostly because of the weighty feeling.

I do a lot of side arm to 5 O’clock casting because I feel more accurate and I can create quieter entries with bigger and heavier baits. The reel helps a lot in that respect because I don’t need much arc to get distance.

Love my Cabelas Arachnids! So easy to cast, and next to no backlashes.

I have two Tatula SVs and they are amazing. I can’t recommend them enough if you ever cast anything 2/5 oz or under. If you are mostly casting heavier baits however I would probably go with the Tatula CT as it casts further and the benefits of the SV spool are primarily with smaller lures.

And yes, these reels are unique in that you want to set the brake at somewhere in the middle, I usually use 6 or 8 and tighten the tension knob and then press the spool release button and loosen the tension knob to the point you can just feel the reel begin to click. This works for anything 3/4oz and under and I find I don’t have to re-adjust until I get to baits closer to 1oz. The Tatula CT and I gather the other Tatula reels are all the same way.

It’s really remarkable how once you have it tuned in you can switch lures without adjusting the reel and get no backlash. I don’t see how I could justify buying a different reel. Just as impressive is that it comes at a mid range price.

So easy I’d have no apprehension letting my wife or mother in law cast it.