Here’s one:

For your smoking you will need some chunks of dry fruitwood or pecan or hickory. Also, pick up aluminum foil, some apple juice, a quality pre-made BBQ rub, bbq sauce and some brown sugar.

Ribs:
Get some nice St. Louis Cut or Baby Back ribs. Trim off any excess fat on the top, flip them over and use a butter knife to peel the membrane off that runs along the backside of the bones. Rub them with a generous amount of your rub.

Heat your smoker to 275. Maintain consistent temperature throughout the smoking process (this is key)

Put your ribs in bones down and let them smoke for 2 hours, you want to get a nice crust on them.

Then make a double layer foil package for them by laying two pieces of foil down about 18″ long (you want to seal up the ribs nice and tight.) Put the ribs on the foil and then pour 3-4 ounces of apple juice under the bones in the packet. Sprinkle a handful of brown sugar on top of the ribs plus a little more rub. Now seal the package up tight by rolling the sides and crimping the top.

Put your foiled ribs back in the smoker for 3 hours. Check them at 3 hours for tenderness. Crack open the package and push on the meat with your finger, it should be nice and tender. If you want them softer you can let them go for up to 4 hours (then they start to fall apart)

Pull the foil package(s) out of your smoker and carefully save the delicious mixture of apple juice, pork fat, brown sugar and rub that is in the bottom of the packet. You can later mix this with your sauce or serve it by itself to dip the ribs in, it’s incredible.

At this point your ribs have smoked for 5 hours. Now you want to brush them with a coating of bbq sauce (or the mix from above) and put them back in the smoker, bone down, for another hour to let a crust develop.

Pull the ribs after that last hour and let them rest for a few minutes. If done right these will be some of the best ribs you have ever had.

Also, keep the smoker closed when you are foiling and defoiling your ribs. This will keep a lot of heat in. Remember the old bbq saying, if you’re lookin you ain’t cookin’!

Thanks for all the great responses everyone. I’m leaning towards the curado 300ej but think before I decide I will testdrive that vs. a higher gear Revo. From looking at specs on a lot of these reels it’s interesting to me that a 6.9:1 Curado has a line pick up of 32″ while a Calcutta 300D with a 5.6:1 gear ratio has a pick up of 30″. Other reels with a gear ratio in the mid 5’s have pick ups of about 25″. Is this due to spool design/size?