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| Well I'm on spring break next week and since I'm going back home, I figured I might as well get stuff ready for this upcoming year. I plan on going to bass pro for the spring sale stuff so I was wondering what your thaughts are about a decent line counter at a reasonable price (keeping in mind im a broke college student). I have heard a lot about okuma's and diawas, but is there anythign else?? What do you guys that troll a lot prefer?? Thanks |
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | Nate I like the LC47's and LC27's for trolling. The step down from that is on sale at a great price. Get over there as soon as you can its going quick. |
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| Hiya,
Okumas are pretty nice - seem to have nice smooth drags and the price is pretty reasonable.
Also worth checking out the new Abu linecounters. I have a couple, and they are pretty nifty. Cool thing is, if you already own reels like a 6500C3 you can buy a linecounter kit for it, and convert a garden variety 6500 to a linecounter whenever you want to - all you have to do is take off the palming plate, put the lincounter on, and put the palming plate back on with some longer screws. Took me about 3 minutes without bothering to look at the directions. If you already have some 6500s, the kit is about 45 bucks, so if you only need linecounters once in a while and don't need to drop a wad of cash on a linecounter only reel, it's well worth checking out.
Cheers,
RK
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Location: Holly, MI | Ditto on the ones on sale at bass pro. The Daiwa accudepth is on sale for $39 ! Even at the regular $49 it is a deal. The main difference between the Accudepth and the higher cost Daiwa 27LC is that it has bushings instead of bearings. If this is a trolling reel you don't need the bearings for long casts and it should last a very long time. I just bought 2 of them myself. I did talk to the Daiwa rep that was at Cabelas' and at Bass Pro's spring fishing classic (yep, I went to both)and went over the details of both reels. He admited on getting a higher commission on the more expensive reel and we both laughed. The accudepth has the same frame, same drag, same gears! I intend to troll for both salmon and mooskies withn them. Almost forgot I do have one Okuma linecounter (model escapes me)and will porbably retire it. Haven't been very happy with it. I'll sell it cheap, ha ha |
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Location: Chicago, IL | I agree with Mike,
The Daiwa is the way to go. All of my trolling rods are GL47LC's and they take a huge beating. I have heard some thing about the drag systems burning out on the Okuma's so I stayed clear. The drag on the Daiwa's a very smooth and very well constructed.
-Phil C.
Edited by MuskyPippo 3/18/2003 6:01 PM
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| Last year, I bought 2 of the Tidewater LC's for $35. I liked them, and had no problems with them. Last week, I bought 2 of the Accudepth 47's, mostly for salmon fishing, but they will see probably more time trolling baits for ski's. Pretty nice reel for $39. Also bought 6 of the 27's to replace my old LC's for planer boarding eyes. At less than half the price of the Sealines, I figure they'll serve me very well. |
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Location: oswego, il | I have okumas and diawas and can recommend both. If you are going to pull a dipsey though, use the diawa. |
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| Thanks guys for the help. Ill be sure to get to Bass Pro quick and check out those diawas. Thanks again, ill let ya know how they work out!! |
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| If your running multipal rod's the line counters are a great thing to have to keep track how far back each line is. I run Diawa GL47LC's and realy like them for Salmon fishing where I run up to 12 to 15 rods. For musky fishing, at most I'll run 4 rods and I like the Penn 209's and just count the level wind passes to keep track how far back you are. 1 pass is 7 feet of line. |
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Thaughts on line counters???