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| So I have a lews high speed bass sized reel I plan on using for tiger muskie occasionally I will be throwing Small bucktails and bass sized spinnerbaits. Is ten pounds of drag gonna be enough? |
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| No Muskie will have that reel shredded in no time |
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| If you get use to using your thumb for added drag, it's plenty. |
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Location: Wisconsin River | ^^^ plenty^^^ |
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| I agree. Plenty. |
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| You might need to use an "educated thumb" but it will work. An awful lot of muskies were caught on baitcasters over the years that had no drag, just a guy's thumb on the spool. Those old 'knuckle buster" pfluegers for example. |
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| Don't know the quality of Lews reels, but i have landed, a lot of 40+ inch fish on my 200 curado and 1000 stradic ci4 spinning, and they still work great, you just not able to brute force the fish in the net.
During the warm summer days I think it is important to keep the fight as short as possible, so i would not target large muskies or pikes on such light gear, during this season, as i feel it leads to higher rates of fish mortality due to the lactic acid, being released in the fish during the long fights, this doesn't seem to be a problem in the colder month of the year. |
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| Thanks for the info guys. Appreciate it. |
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| Bigbucks1985 - 1/16/2018 10:52 PM
So I have a lews high speed bass sized reel I plan on using for tiger muskie occasionally I will be throwing Small bucktails and bass sized spinnerbaits. Is ten pounds of drag gonna be enough? it depend where you live,if you live at ill or ind it's more than enough |
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Location: Hayward, WI | Not sure about that reel in particular and how much cranking power and strength of internals it has, but 10 pounds of drag is plenty. When I used Okuma Indurons I think they had 12 pounds or something. I never cranked them all the way down. Never had issues, and I consider myself as somebody that puts quite a bit of pressure on a fish. |
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| Gonna return the lew’s reel I got. I mainly bought it because it was a big sale. But I found a couple other reels from lew’s that I feel will fit my application of a light muskie setup. Either the super duty g speed spool lfs series or the custom inshore speed spool. Not sure which one though. |
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Location: St. Lawrence River | Bigbucks1985 - 1/20/2018 2:39 AM
Gonna return the lew’s reel I got. I mainly bought it because it was a big sale. But I found a couple other reels from lew’s that I feel will fit my application of a light muskie setup. Either the super duty g speed spool lfs series or the custom inshore speed spool. Not sure which one though.
Many times sale items are non-returnable.. |
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| It is returnable I have done it before. I have never had a problem with it At Cabela’s before. I got some revo’s on sale and returned them without any issues. |
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Location: Southern Indiana | supertrollr - 1/18/2018 12:17 PM
Bigbucks1985 - 1/16/2018 10:52 PM
So I have a lews high speed bass sized reel I plan on using for tiger muskie occasionally I will be throwing Small bucktails and bass sized spinnerbaits. Is ten pounds of drag gonna be enough? it depend where you live,if you live at ill or ind it's more than enough
So a fish in Illinois or Indiana will not fight as hard as a fish elsewhere? |
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| Yes, 10lbs is plenty for musky. |
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| The biggest concern I would have would be getting the hook set if your drag is too loose.
The benefit of reels, like the Komodo or Lexa, is the high drag rating that can help you punch those large hooks through a musky's mouth on the hook set. |
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| First of all, 10# is a lot of drag and it's unlikely any fish could pull more than the tiniest amount of line off the reel at that setting. Secondly, that's why the good Lord gave us a thumb. |
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