saffayakker wrote: I bought a Okuma Azores SW from a guy on Trade Me for $190. It blue and silwer. 65 model. Use it the other day and caught a 26 kg yellow fin tuna with it. Spooled with 50 lb braid. It cheap but done the job for me. Don't be fooled by the " you need 25kg of drag" stuff. Most of the time you not even using 10 kg of drag. It more likely 6 to 8 kg of drag. |
saffayakker wrote: I bought a Okuma Azores SW from a guy on Trade Me for $190. It blue and silwer. 65 model. Use it the other day and caught a 26 kg yellow fin tuna with it. Spooled with 50 lb braid. It cheap but done the job for me. Don't be fooled by the " you need 25kg of drag" stuff. Most of the time you not even using 10 kg of drag. It more likely 6 to 8 kg of drag. |
eynon wrote: you'll build some good muscles with the finnor offshore 9500, its heavy and a bit clunky but built like a brick with some good power. might be better looking at the 7500 instead if you want to go that route, its smaller, lighter, same drag. |
saffayakker wrote: I bought a Okuma Azores SW from a guy on Trade Me for $190. It blue and silwer. 65 model. Use it the other day and caught a 26 kg yellow fin tuna with it. Spooled with 50 lb braid. It cheap but done the job for me. Don't be fooled by the " you need 25kg of drag" stuff. Most of the time you not even using 10 kg of drag. It more likely 6 to 8 kg of drag. |
Brendog wrote: At my hunting and fishing they got a daiwa bg6500 top water combo for 400 including braid is this what I should be looking at for a combo? |
coroben wrote: ^BG4000 off the rocks for topwater, brave man |
Brenick wrote:
Why so? Not enough drag? Not enough line capacity? Retrieve too slow? I will be targeting Kingfish (south island) on lures so am not expecting to hook 20kg fish. I am tossing up between the BG4000 or 5000 but if anyone has any other suggestions for under $250 I am more than happy to look. |
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