525, not bad reel

[g.ordon]

Fished ssp the other day with wor kid who hardly ever fishes as works and lives abroad, anyway he was getting snagged up as not getting out far enough. He's using a 525 mag and orion so I asked for a chuck, got the reel set up better and gave it a whack and all I can say is that the reel is very good, smooth and fast retrieve. Also the 14ft rod suprised me, easy to load up and recovered well. So all in all a canny combo i thought. I tried to give it a good whack but the sinker just snapped off as it was just 30lb straight through (don't worry I made sure there was no one down stream when I hit it) so shocker required deffo. Anyway I just put the mags on a bit for him and bingo, 40yrds on his chuck. I blanked and he got 3, HA. Good rod and reel combo.

[PAUL1971]

I use the 525mag slidey awsome reel.but you must off whacked that led out for you
to snap 30lb line

[tonybax]

30lb line will snap every time with anybody that can load the rod with a 6oz lead,you MUST use a shock leader for safe fishing.

[fish fingers]

totally agree with you tony safety is paramount but years ago that is all we used to use and i,ve seen some big hitters ping a lead out and very rearly have a snap off plus it depends on the quality of the line you use infact the sylcast used to be 26lb and 28lb/30lb mind it was quite thick to the lines we use today do,nt think it is stretched or whatever they do with them

[marco1967]

most likely a poor knot was tied to the lead, or just bad cast timing,, i've used 30lb ordinary line now as a shock lead for alot of years and have never had a lead fly off , and i can hit a lead a fair way .

[g.ordon]

most likely a poor knot was tied to the lead, or just bad cast timing,, i've used 30lb ordinary line now as a shock lead for alot of years and have never had a lead fly off , and i can hit a lead a fair way .

Oh well, that's me put in me place

[Darnc]

Just what I was thinking bet you feel told off now mate

[g.ordon]

Just what I was thinking bet you feel told off now mate

Ah do mate, corner of the room for me, lines etc.

[SteveG]

Maybe you should be made to do a hundred knots lol

[safc]

best reels ever made imo

new ones are poor

[g.ordon]

best reels ever made imo

new ones are poor

It's a slidey about 7 year old mate

[marco1967]

Wasn't having a go m8. Simply offering a possibility as to why it snapped off... And thats all. Sounds just like maybe a schoolboy error took place.

[g.ordon]

Wasn't having a go m8. Simply offering a possibility as to why it snapped off... And thats all. Sounds just like maybe a schoolboy error took place.

Sounds to me yer wer havin a pop mate and me dummy is now officially out, boo hoo

[brix]

shockleaders

Couple of years ago fished the beach at meggies burn and cracked off a sinker using 50lb shocker.the poor bloke up the beach wern,t to happy with a busted seatbox I can tell ya!.I use 70lb now just in case.

[lambengland]

Sounds to me yer wer havin a pop mate and me dummy is now officially out, boo hoo

Well im not a big caster and even i snap 30lb with my smooth otg so youre not alone... Clearly we need lessons