Good reel for ice fishing

[CrappieJohn]

All I do is remove the side cover very carefully and check to be sure that all washers and such have a place to go back to. On new reels, they generally just shoot a blob of lube in the housing and assume that use will spread it around. I use a toothpick and a paper towel to get rid of the big masses and that's all I do. When I am ready to replace the sidecover I put a half dozen drops of Hot Sauce on the shaft and where the gears mesh. I put a drop on the point where the handle goes into the sidecover, replace the cover and the handle. Once together again I check for operation of all functions and spin the handle like crazy a few times to spread the Sauce.

This Hot Sauce is dynamite stuff. Gander or Fleet Farm....Sportsmans Warehouse too....they all will have it. A little goes a very long way and that 6 or 7 buck investment will probably do about fifty reel treatments.

[augernaut]

The Frabill Sub-Zero lube is very good stuff as well - have not tried the Quantum Hot Sauce....

I usually pick out as much grease as I can, but I know that some guys will pour boiling hot water into the gears to wash all the grease out - I plan on trying that this year...

[Mr.Perch]

If you are going to put water in there use distilled water and you will not have the gunk bildup that tap water will cause over time