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| I'm a little confused on when a power handle is better and when a regular handle is better for certain baits/applications. When do you guys use a power handle and when do you opt for the regular handle? |
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| power handles when I need more power to crank in big blades or cranks or regular when I don't need extra power with jerk baits or gliders... |
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Location: Contrarian Island | ditto above... power handles I only use on reels that I am not 'working' a bait with or baits that don't pull hard.
power handle on Tranx for big rubber and blades
regular double paddle handle for reels I use for cranks, topwaters, and side to side (gliders/zig zags)
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Location: Madison, WI | My question, and this is my ignorance talking because I use the double paddles for everything and I don't have any experience with the power handles, why wouldn't you use the power handles on everything? Is there a downside to having them on reels when you don't need the extra power? If having the power handles on "some" is good, isn't having the handles on "all" better? |
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| What about small to medium size bucktails. Double paddles fine? |
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Location: NE Ohio | Smell_Esox - 4/7/2016 10:06 PM
What about small to medium size bucktails. Double paddles fine?
oh yeah |
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| Mitch Garcia - 4/7/2016 6:22 PM
My question, and this is my ignorance talking because I use the double paddles for everything and I don't have any experience with the power handles, why wouldn't you use the power handles on everything? Is there a downside to having them on reels when you don't need the extra power? If having the power handles on "some" is good, isn't having the handles on "all" better?
I just find the thinner, smaller double paddle for fishing jerks and gliders, I feel its easier to control the rod. with the power handle you can grip them with a few fingers so your movement is more limited/awkward. Just my experience. |
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| Double paddles are best for speed or using the reel to work the bait with a stop and start retrieve. Being shorter and balanced they will spin faster and be easier to initiate turning.
But a power handle is a HUGE effort saver when the baits get big or have a lot of resistance. Ideal for big lipped stuff or big blades. |
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Location: Latitude 41.3016 Longitude 88.6160 | On double paddle handles you are using your 2 fingers, on a power handle you are using your whole hand, so on high resistant baits like 10's use a power handle because your whole hand is more powerful then just using your two fingers like you do on a double paddle handle. |
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Location: St. Lawrence River | Mitch Garcia - 4/7/2016 7:22 PM
My question, and this is my ignorance talking because I use the double paddles for everything and I don't have any experience with the power handles, why wouldn't you use the power handles on everything? Is there a downside to having them on reels when you don't need the extra power? If having the power handles on "some" is good, isn't having the handles on "all" better?
Think of the power handle like slipping a piece of pipe over a pipe wrench for that extra bit of length/power on the wrench. With a finesse bait like a glider, the power handle can sometimes just seem like "too much." Where your standard double paddle keeps you a little more in control under these circumstances...in my opinion. |
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Location: Shawano, Wi | I have power handles on all the reels. I feel I have a lot more leverage when fighting a fish. You can pick up slack a lot faster. |
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Location: Grand Marais, MN | "power handle" is kind of a misnomer and people around here don't always know exactly what is going on with the mechanics of a reel. lots of definitions flying around that are either not true or poorly explained.
torque is the principle in action here. torque is force times lever arm length. to get the same torque, you can apply less force with a longer lever arm ( distance from center of reel handle to center of spindle shaft). The longer your lever arm is, the less force you have to apply to get the same amount of torque. This is the reason why it may feel easier. if you continue to apply the same amount of force, you get more torque with a longer lever arm.
If you have a lure that doesn't have much resistance, you are better off with a standard double paddle handle. this shorter lever arm means the circumference of the circle created by the full revolution of the handle is of a shorter distance than a larger lever arm, thus it can technically be reeled faster because you have to cover less distance to spin the handle a full revolution. Because we get tired, the mechanical advantage of the longer lever arm becomes important to maintain yourself over a long day of fishing, and thus you feel like you can bring in bucktails faster with a "power handle" |
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| So do most of you guys have two different rods for bucktail casting? Say a rod for burning small bucktails with a reel that has double paddles. And then another rod for throwing dbl 10s and bigger with a reel w/ power handle? |
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