They’re easy to use, durable, and forgiving. I need to be able to cast a chunk of cutbait and have confidence my reel can handle whatever size or species of catfish takes that bait. Most of my catfishing is run-and-gun for 2- to 10-pound channel cats in small rivers and lakes, but I never know what will end up on the end of my line. They work well for the way I like to fish. You will be suprized the limits of your gear.I have a lot of Abu Garcia and Penn baitcasting reels, but those in my tackle inventory with the most catfish slime on them are a Shimano Spirex spinning reel and a pair of Zebco Omega spincasters. and fish at drag 2 untill you catch a fish. If your pole and reel say max limit 10lbs, try 20lbs test line. Use the 50% as drag 3 as your base as to if you will break your pole or not, then go from there. Even if its says you risk breaking the pole. When i used 12lbs test line, i could reel in a fish at 2 drag, if a fish was under 23 lbs i could use drag 3 but with a high risk of it breaking the line. i would be able to pull in a fish of this size, but it would be a back and forth fight. so a 30 lbs fish at this setting would create a tension of 15lbs. Meaning at 3 drag, it causes 50% tension. I may be wrong here, but from testing it would seem the drag does infact act like a Clutch. With this set up i can reel in a 25lbs fish on 3 drag with no problem, even 4 drag on some.If i were to follow what the poles limit was, i would think 10.5 lbs test would cause the pole to break. Recently i have seen a lot of complaints about the Drag, and how it works on cetain rods and reels.Īfter testing, i think most people do not understand why it works or how it works the way it does.įirst off the Max limits for rods and reels are missleading.
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