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| I've been hearing quite a lot of hype about the boca bearings. I'm not sure if they would be a good investment, or if there are better products out there to enhance the performance of reels. Any thoughts that anyone can contribute would be greatly appreciated. |
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| I'd be curious what advantage musky fishermen would benefit from them. I can see in a smaller casting reel like for bass when you are casting light lures or in a surf reel where distance is everything but I've never really felt the need to cast a musky lure further than I can with any good musky reel. Nor have I ever had a bearing go out on me. For salt water I could see a better bearing because the corrosion eating them up but not in fresh water. |
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| I was considering getting them for my bass reel, but I wasn't sure if they were worth the money. Has anyone actually used tried them? |
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Location: Hugo, MN | I put some in my old Abu Garcia 6500's. I was going thru spool bearings pretty regularly for whatever reason. I put in the ceramic lightning series bearings, not the fancy orange seal bearings, and never had to change them again. Didn't notice any improvement in casting distance. Noise wasn't an issue, either. |
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| knooter - 5/11/2012 9:13 PM
I put some in my old Abu Garcia 6500's. I was going thru spool bearings pretty regularly for whatever reason. I put in the ceramic lightning series bearings, not the fancy orange seal bearings, and never had to change them again. Didn't notice any improvement in casting distance. Noise wasn't an issue, either.
If I'd drop the money it would be specifically for the increased casting distance. The reel I had in mind is a little outdated (Quantum KVD - basically a Code with a few extra bearings and a KVD graphic). Not sure what the actual figure is for Orange Seals for that model, but I've heard it's normally about $80 for the entire kit. Seems crazy to put that kind of money into a 6 year-old reel that I paid less than $100 for new. But maybe it would be worth it. |
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Location: Latitude 41.3016 Longitude 88.6160 | Most stock reels come with ABEC 3 grade of S.Steel bearings or less, on musky reels you do not need or will U see any improvement using Ceramic bearings over stock ones. First try this take your stock spool bearings out of the reel and clean them in Acetone or spray brake clearner and soak them in Acetone over nite and spin them dry and then use a good reel oil like Hot Sauce and 1 {one} drop of oil per bearing and try that you should see that the spool will spin smoother now, but you will have to reoil every 10-20 hours of casting. I use Grease in all Musky reels because most guys are casting 3oz or bigger baits and will not reoil the bearing, so grease will last for the season.
On bass reels casting baits under 1/4 oz then you will see a big difference in Ceramic bearings over stock bearings. I can take a stock bearing and I can make them spin as long and smooth as a ceramic bearing, I have some dry lube that will make stock bearing perform like ceramic. Just send me your stock spool bearings and I can treat your stock bearings for you and U can see for yourself. |
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Location: Sw Pennsylvania | I put some boca ceramics in a Ross Centerpin reel a few years ago, had around $35 invested in them, i would suggest to stay away from ceramic of any make, very noisey and no smoother then abec 3 imo.
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