Post #1500 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) – Spinning/Baitcasters

I’m gonna keep it nice and simple.

Favorite Baitcaster:

Favorite Spinning Reel:

My favorite caster is either a Daiwa Tatula CT or a Lew’s Mach 2.
My favorite spinning reel is the Ole Reliable. The Pflueger President.

What are yours???

I recently purchased a new Tatula and yet have to get it to the water. Presidents and the mid/upper line of Shimano, Symetre and Stradic are my go to’s.

Anxious to see how the spin Tatula does in the winter.

Otherwise haven’t been overly impressed with any reel, except my president. Just keeps going after many others quit. Been the heavy duty reel on my lighter catfish setup to for couple years now, flat out impressive after several years.

Okuma Ceymar on my tucr ice rod.

Favorite Baitcaster is my Daiwa Tatula CT

Favorite spinning reel is my new Daiwa Legalis. $70 reel and feels like a $200 spinning reel with an incredibly smooth drag.

Spinning goes to my presidents.

For baitcasting…I don’t do enough of that type of fishing to really give a good response. I have multiple Ambassadeur round reels from C3’s, C4’s and an STX and I like them all.

This summer I got to thinking about 3-way rigging with baitcasters and picked up a couple Quantum KVD reels. The drag isn’t the best, but the reels work well for what I paid for them. One more summer of trouble free operation and I will look into investing into better reels. I found they were easier to operate when running two lines and letting out line in a rod holder was much easier.

ZEBCO bullet

Baitcaster: Daiwa Tatula SV. If you are tossing much larger baits, I love the Calcutta 250 size reels

Spinning: Currently my favorite is the Daiwa Ballistic LT. My Shimano Symetre reels are starting to show their wear/tear, but they were an incredible reel for the price for a long time.

Daiwa Zillion SV TW

Casting: Daiwa Steez SV TW
Spinning: what’s that?? (Haha, President)

Could’nt decide on favorites so i’m sticking with the trusty canepole.

chuck100 wrote:

Could’nt decide on favorites so i’m sticking with the trusty canepole.

Ya Cane’t go wrong there!

I recently purchased a Tatula 2000 spinning reel and used it on the river last week. It’s the smoothest reel I’ve ever owned. If it holds up like other Daiwa reels I have owned it will be hard to beat.

Tatula SV

As for spinning I’m not the one to ask. Mine need to pull double duty with good seals, so I go with Penn, a proven salt reel.

I can tell you I do not like Quantum spinning reels.

mplspug wrote:

Tatula SV

As for spinning I’m not the one to ask. Mine need to pull double duty with good seals, so I go with Penn, a proven salt reel.

I can tell you I do not like Quantum spinning reels.

I haven’t had good luck with Quantum reels either.

I do like their baitcasters, but the spinning reels I have issues with the handle and the inside gunking up, not to mention my drag clicker broke. I am taking it apart for the second time in a half year. I hope it is just grease build up in one spot. The last time I cleaned it out and it was smooth again…but when I was putting it back together I was afraid I put too much on the gears.

I have and accurist and a smoke baitcaster. The accurist is a bit heavy, but a work horse. Heck I still have a Quantum Iron sitting around, I’ll probably convert that to salt bait reel.

I would add the Curado 70 to the casting list. I prefer the Daiwa Tatula SV if casting really light lures or skipping… otherwise the C70 is a compact dream to palm all day. Smooth, great ergonomics and performs well. Same price as Tat.