Okay.   The reason I asked is the long jigs work best when you jerk them rather than just winding them in fast; in fact they have very little action if you do that. Speed helps combined with jerks, especially on the rocket jigs, but I've seen many good Kingies hooked on very slow retrieves with stops, starts etc. In NZ the myth persists that you have to wind in a jig flat-out to catch Kingies; it's a hang-over from the 70's and just tends to shag you really fast and is totally unecessary. Higher speed reels tend to make it harder to land fish and can be harder to jig with when using heavier jigs. That's why the worlds best and many of the hard-core jiggers on this site use lower speed reels, both overheads and spinners, with around a 4:1 to 4.9:1 retrieve .

 

Good luck with your Torium; they're nice reels and have accounted for a lot of Kingfish and other species in this country.

 

 

i see your point i got a few lower speed reels that i use for kings, got a 30w international that i use off the rocks and a couple tld's so guess i really only got the torium to extend the collection and it is alot lighter that the others aswell,

 

so torsa u prefer the 16 to the 20??