Yeah, Shimano reels are always smoother compared to the rest of the brands.
But what about their durability in your opinion? I know Daiwas to be quite durable.

Durability is dependent on model. The new presso series is pretty fragile. High chance of breaking the arm if you drop the reel.

most durable reel award goes to Penn !

that's what i feel. Penn #1 in terms of durability. Bannax mebbe not far behind.

the rest all fragile category liao, shimano la, abu la, okuma la, ajiking la, etc etc .

Ajiking totally useless. The gear inside broke without me even using after a few months. Now I ban that shitty brand already.
TCE Tackles are trying very hard to bring that brand up and putting a premium pricing on their high end models but like they say, u can put as much glitter on a turd but it's still a turd.

bro max - my ajiking wahoo still good wor. compared to penn, my ajiking is shameful la. but among the mid range , i still think penn is #1. i dont own 1. i hope to own 1 because really tahan lasak 1.

in the RM500-1000 range, i still think penn is leader. maybe okuma users can share their expewrience with okuma ? dunno anyone who owns okuma so far. bannax and bossna ya, bagus also. my friend's bannax oredi 3 years constant fishing. tahan lasak also. ATC so-so cause now price up for valur series. the valiant i know quite faulty. my friend mia atc valiant 5000 masuk kilang claim 3 times already.

I think durability is very subjective. But i had no issues with Shimano reels during the many years of ownership. People keep saying that daiwa is more durable but I don't think that is the case.My saltiga overhead is prone to salt corrosion issue for example.

That is only true for older gen penn made in the USA. Newer ones made in China the quality is all over the place. Same goes to banax when they were made in Korea years back.

I dont know how you can categorize Shimano and Abu with okuma and ajiking. They are not even on the same playing field.

the category of durable and not very durable. not category of mid range, high end, 12 bearing 14 bearing. just between durable and not very durable.

for me only penn and banax sit in the durable range. the rest fall into the not so durable category.

Maybe the high end ones then good la. People like me buy low end ones and havent use also spoil sure blacklist the entire brand though i read last time the wahoo reel is quite famous.

july and august is sotong jig time. i'm going with boatman joe off via pekan then in august maybe penyabong or mersing not yet decide.

do some bottom jigging and perhaps light jigging. 1 annoying apolo man following for both trips sigh.

anyone here got okuma trio hs ?

nope, i haven't tried okuma yet, i used to have an okuma classic XT bought from amazon cos that time shops here no bring, now plenty already kns
end up not using that reel and sold to a fellow angler who went deep sea last week. it was his first time fishing and first time on deep sea trip but he lucky cos got fren

btw tmr im going out again to deep sea, reading what fireicecombo said, i sure wana try jig sotong also dy

oh ya i bought the motion sickness band as well dy last nite, hopefully no more donate food to the fish in the sea later...

This post has been edited by Shoot@M3: Jun 30 2016, 05:26 PM

anyone s24 pond tomorrow morning?

Not sure if i want to go to s24 or banting..

https://www.facebook.com/JJ-Fishing-Grounds...85432108190890/

RM 30/4hr

got arapaima wei and many nice pacu and many nice fish. feedback came to me this pond decent.

waaaaaaa poison ahhhhhh

you went before or not?

next week thursday oni i go. my pond kakis all went liao, all give thumbs up. pacu there is killer so either u 80lb leader or u straight metal leader. they also poison me.

Damn. I miss the feeling of first run of the pacu.. On light tackle...

Can play float anot? Cant find from their FB page. Float and pacu damn syok yo.
And what bait do the pacus eat? If get the right bait then they strike very fast

This post has been edited by max_cjs0101: Jul 1 2016, 09:55 AM

mr tang is owner of greenbait. this vid taken very recently. u might wanna try his recipe.

Hi guys. I have shimano fx2500fb to give away. I'm just asking for a small token of RM20 for the reel which is spooled with spiderwire code red (10lbs) including packing, handling and shipping. Pls pm me if you're interested.

The reel is still smooth. Drag click is working fine.


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