Black Betty 6061

[Fishin4fun_MN]

I was speaking with a rep for 13 Fishing and the Eagle Claw and 13 Fishing Black Betty 6061 are supposedly based off the same reel and I thought he said they were made in the same factory.

[aanderud]

Mines been on pre order for 2 months already...$100 isnt bad for a quality reel, most of us spend more than that on open water reels, why buy cheap reels for ice fishing?

I'll just rebut your theory that summer-reel pricing has anything to do at all with winter fishing. I buy plenty of $100 to $150 reels for summer fishing, but....they're not the same.

Most guys I know who REGULARLY spend "way more" than $100 for their summer reels are muskie guys and bass guys. They spend that because they're casting and retrieving lures (somtimes very heavy lures) 100s of feet all day and they need the reels to hold up to that kind of abuse. Some catfishermen spend this kind of ching as well but they're also casting large lures (8 ounces to a pound with bait and sinker) and retrieving large (30+ llbs) fish.

Letting a jig down a hole and leaving it there for many minutes while you wait for a fish to bite just isn't quite the same and doesn't take the same toll on a reel and casting a lure (in your case I'm guessing lots of heavy musky lures) across the lake and ripping it in with a high speed retrieve. The use cases and abuse scenarios are so different in fact that they warrant different size/quality components, and along with that you GENERALLY see different pricing structures. It's not unlike the price/quality differential you see between the Abu Garcia 6500 series reel (maybe 60-80 bucks?) and the 7000 series (120 bucks?)...except this would be another layer down from the $60-80 region because it's smaller yet.

That being said, to everyone who wants to spend $100 on an ice reel, it's nice that they have the option!

[Esox_Magnum]

Most my walleye reels are well over $100, my muskie reels are all in the $300 range, alot of my ice reels are in that 50-100 range to, the low end ones just dont last more than a season or 2 and more than 1 has met it's end after loosing a nice fish to my 28oz estwing framing hammer... Most my current ice reels are 4 years old or older, most my walleye reels are 10-15 years old, muskie reels are in the 3-5 year old range....None have ever been taken care of and still do their jobto perfection ( exception are the muskie reels, they all get sent for repairs at some point) thats why I spend more up front on a reel rather than saving a buck on the front end and having to spend more to replace it later....

[Jim Uran]

Money isnt everything lol..... Wow!!!

[Esox_Magnum]

Money isnt everything lol..... Wow!!!

My only hobby is fishing, other than work it's all I do....

6 muskie reels

24 walleye reels

i bass reel

14 ice reels

15-20 misc reels laying around

Other than rent and utilities I have nothing else to spend mymoney on and I do buy most my gear at some sort of discount....My wife things I have an obsession, I think she's crazy....