I purchased my first baitcast reel last summer knowing nothing about them. It was a cheap pinnacle 7 with a 6.2:1 gear ratio. I am hooked on baitcasters and I want to buy more but there are so many choices. I think my first criteria would be the gear ratio. This new reel would be intended for spinnerbaits and buzzbaits. Using my 6.2:1 last year I found that I really had to spin the reel fast to keep the buzzbaits on top of the water. Would a 7.X:1 gear ratio be better for me? I dont see a lot of them out there. Most common gear I have found is in the 6.2-6.3 range. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I have also read a thread that the middle pack baitcasters sometimes come with cheap drag washers that people tend to replace, I would like to use my reel before I have to replace stuff! Budget is 80-150 and would like to buy new.
One other thing, I hope I dont sound too much like a rookie here. Do they make any baitcasters that make some sort of audible sound when the drag is running, like a spinning real? My current baitcast is silent when drag is running, still getting used to this!
got this tackled today took about 3 hours to get both sides done. Didnt even get to use a torch....
Thought I was golden with just jacking it up and I could get to everything but no luck. Had to remove the entire axle hub and brake assembly to get to what I needed. Was a pain but still better then taking off the entire pivot arm.
Axle bearings were already greased and in great shape thankfully. Got both leaf springs installed and its ready for the road again.
Probably going to have my electric brakes checked, I am not touching anything with the brake drums. Based on what I saw it doesn't look like my electric brakes have been working anyway. Brakes are nice to have if its slippery out
😂 yea pretty amazing how b o o b i e s gets flagged, but they can't respond or tell me why I can't get logged in here on my laptop but I can on my cellular 😪
we had some nice weather yesterday and this conundrum was driving me crazy so I drove up to the house to take another look. I got a bunch of goodies via ups yesterday (cables, winch ratchet parts, handles, leaf springs etc).
I wanted to make sure the new leaf springs I got fit. I got everything laid out and ready to go. Will be busy this weekend with kids stuff and too cold to fish anyway, but I will try to get back up there again next weekend and get it done. I don't think it will be bad once I get it lifted up.
For anyone in the google verse, the leaf springs are 4 leafs and measure 25 1/4" eye to eye per Yetti. I didnt want to pay their markup so just got something else comparable rated for the same weight.
I am a first time wheel house owner, this is all new to me. My house didn't come with any handles for the rear cables? I was told this week by someone in the industry that cordless drills do not have enough brake to lower it slow enough and it can damage the cables and the ratchets in the winches. I put on a handle last night and it is 100% better than using a drill, unfortatenly I found out the hard way lol and will only use the ICNutz to raise the house now.
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I purchased my first baitcast reel last summer knowing nothing about them. It was a cheap pinnacle 7 with a 6.2:1 gear ratio. I am hooked on baitcasters and I want to buy more but there are so many choices. I think my first criteria would be the gear ratio. This new reel would be intended for spinnerbaits and buzzbaits. Using my 6.2:1 last year I found that I really had to spin the reel fast to keep the buzzbaits on top of the water. Would a 7.X:1 gear ratio be better for me? I dont see a lot of them out there. Most common gear I have found is in the 6.2-6.3 range. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I have also read a thread that the middle pack baitcasters sometimes come with cheap drag washers that people tend to replace, I would like to use my reel before I have to replace stuff! Budget is 80-150 and would like to buy new.
One other thing, I hope I dont sound too much like a rookie here. Do they make any baitcasters that make some sort of audible sound when the drag is running, like a spinning real? My current baitcast is silent when drag is running, still getting used to this!
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