hi guys have been looking for a 6500 saltiga for my blue rose no luck without paying lots of dough was looking hard at the big finnor threadline has anyone had time to put one through the hoops and get a feel of what there like for jigging and general longevity yet if so would love to here about it, thanks.

BA got a marlin on his so that tells ya something about how tough they are.

"Feb 27, 2010 this was the day of the earthquake in Chile so a tsunami alert would not let us leave the dock until 11 am. Figuring it was a bit late to get to the marlin grounds we made our way to McGowen reef to fish for tuna and wahoo. Still fishing with Mike and Tom we located a bait ball being hammered by tuna. Using a popper on a spinning rod Mike managed to hook a tuna on his first cast when a brand new Fin Nor Spinning 9500 OS (don’t buy one) reel gave out on him. What luck!! "

Yep, happens with pretty much all reels. They certainly are heavy reels. Personally I have not used mine for poppering lately as the reel stem is  too thick to fit easily between my fingers (that is how I hold spinning reels) without rubbing and getting sore after a while, however, as far as ruggedness goes, it has handled a couple of GTs in the islands and a good kingi when I used it poppering one day at whitianga.
In fact, I think perhaps you should look at the fin-nor Ahab20 spn reel... now that too is an ultra-solid reel, lighter though, smaller spool but still ample when loaded with braid, great drag on it, I have had 2 of those reels in the Solomons, and they were awesome (until eventually they died...the sollies' humidity is murder on reels, nothing lasts for long up there, no matter what it is)
reels, 10 years ago, nothing bar nothing could come close to them that I could get here in NZ anyhow.

there ya go, there is my mate Steve's one.... as you can see it has a much smaller spool size than the offshores.
Anyhow, just a thought....

Ived used one steeeve. will stick to my stella's, too heavy and agricultural for my soft deckie hands

there is another spin reel arriving soon for testing at the 3 Kings.  They are made specifically for heavy jigging, popping and also for Marlin.  The Marlin reel is made for 130lb braid while the others are made for PE5-8.

Announcements later.

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I won a fin nor in a comp. Used it for the frst time on a charter with Mark on extreme. The anti reverse gave out first cast. We spent a while trying to find it, but realised it is internal??? so didnt get a real chance to try it out as such. Once its fixed i'll give it another bash.

ChrisW wrote: there is another spin reel arriving soon for testing at the 3 Kings.  They are made specifically for heavy jigging, popping and also for Marlin.  The Marlin reel is made for 130lb braid while the others are made for PE5-8. Announcements later.

Is this the Satan of spin reels [diabolo sniper], super tuff