Tried to reply to 'Best istance casting reel'

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Just like to make a comment about the remark made about the ABU being a Salmon reel. This is quite true, it was origionaly designed as a salmon reel but do you know how big those things are? How hard they fight? Come on now lads, there are very few fishys out there in the sea that could best a Salmon! Rivers also tend to be quite snaggy... Seriously though you should never use a reel to pull out of a snag. I have learned this to much cost with the gears stripped off my Penn Seaboy which has a much tougher gearing system than a 525 i can tell you! The biggest mistake an angler can make is not matching line to a reel. ABU 6500 reels should only be loaded with a maximum of 18 - 20 lb line and 525's with only 25 lb line. This is reflected in the size of the spool and how much you can actually get on there. The reason for this is simple, your line should snap BEFORE any damage is done to the reel. Now I ask you this question? with this in mind explain why you would want to pull out of a snag using your reel as a winch? If that were the case you would want to be loading it with 30 lb line which is complely crazy. if 20 lb line or even 25 lb line i not strong enough to pull out of a snag then you you would rarely retreive your rig anyway. In snaggy situations, release some line, take the line at the top ring and wind it round a stick and take the tension up that way. This will put on far mor pressure and free your line or snap off. Better to lose a rig and a weight than damage your reel or rod rings... :oops:

ho ho....! whilst i agree with you about pulling for a break Luke to say that the mag 525 should only be used with 25lb. line?! the mag is considered a distance casting reel is it not? 15lb. mainline being standard practice. to use 25lb. line would seriously cut distance. your love for the abu's is certainly justifiable, but don't dish the 525 as a rough ground real only! oh boy....i feel a 'cast off' coming on!

i must have not made myself clear. What i meant was as a maximum line size. Of course casting with 25 lb line is distance suicide. I was merely saying what the reels are rated at. The ABU 6500's are only supposed to have 20 lb maximum. while the 525 is 25lb maximum. As for casting them as far as I know they are the same. I find 15 lb line to be too weak with snap offs far too common. i opt for 18 lb line and find it more sensible for my fishing although I am sure even better distances could be acheived with it.

As for a cast off I would love to. If only for you to teach me your aerialised ground cast. I would love to be able to do that. I am pretty good at the off the ground but that style you do is pretty impressive. :shock: Very useful for off rocks etc. and the prelude to the pendulum.

APPOLOGIES!!!! you did say maximum Luke, sorry about that! if you give me a shout during next week Luke? i have been fishin pretty close in all summer and could do with putting a lead out too far again!