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manoftheland 
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 Topic: Cheap fishing gear.
Posted: 07 Feb 2010 at 12:54pm |
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Hi guys. I have noticed there is a company on trademe based in australia selling cheap game reels i wouldnt normally be interested but they r so cheap i thought of buying one just for a test out. But i thought i would check first if anyone else has tryed them. They are called omoto.
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junk4us1
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Posted: 07 Feb 2010 at 1:32pm |
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funny ive seen them as well , and been thinking the same thing they sound gd if they got same internals as shimano and penn
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blackboat
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Posted: 07 Feb 2010 at 1:39pm |
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i got a reel of them while back looked all flash in pic etc ,,,,,biggest piece of junk i ever bought scared to use it so never well ,very low budget general rubbish lucky though it cost me $50 or so ,my opinion stay away they not what they appear to be
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Big_red_hunter
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Posted: 07 Feb 2010 at 1:50pm |
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Ditto. Save your money. Got suckered by the "Designed in Japan" , "Designed in USA" . May have been designed there but sure as hell weren't made there. More like made in china outta melted down plastic cereal animals.
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davethefisho
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Posted: 07 Feb 2010 at 2:40pm |
been suckered by them as well, wouldnt touch anything that the seller " premium-fishing" sells.
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smizz
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Posted: 07 Feb 2010 at 3:41pm |
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looks like i wasn't the only 1 to waste my money.. bought 1 of there reels i used it for about 30min and now it looks like a nice paper weight.. i think it would be best just to save a bit of extra money and get something you know you can trust.. thats my plan now
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davethefisho
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Posted: 07 Feb 2010 at 3:43pm |
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just to elaborate, when I got the reel all looked good, spooled it up and had a cast on the front lawn as ya do, then the whole drag system just gave up. hadnt even got it wet. now its good kids toy
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manoftheland
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Posted: 07 Feb 2010 at 3:44pm |
Haha cheers guys. I sure as hell wasnt going to use it on marlin like it says in the add! Was going to test it on a bronze whaler. Anyways i will stick to the tiagra. 
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