| Hola Gato Gordo, or in German : Grüss dich fette Katze.
You’ve forgot Spain, where I live. It doesn’t matter, over the internet we are all close together.
WOW, what an interesting report. It seems that the guys at AVET take our problems for real, and that is important.
Yes these testing are all times interesting, but some points are not clear. A reel on water with fish on it is different than a reel behind a truck. Why?
1) Reel, line and rood are one unit and in combination there are a few hundreds of possibilities how they will work together. Damping coefficient, dynamic absorption and so on…
2) A truck is running with a constant speed, or an increasing speed. A fish will variegate his speed, and important point to understand the START UP problem.
3) Understand I this correct, the truck was on 25 / 30 mph, when the leader get tension?
Now, we know a bit about brake power and variety under grease.
But the general START UP Problem isn’t touched with any sentence. The owners are dissatisfied about this, no one has screamed about missing brake power.
Personally resume: there are two ways to get happy: Greased and non greased.
Those of us who fish every day a Grander will use them dry, because they need every Lb of drag power.
The other ones, like me, should use them greased, because a Grander we fish here in EU nearly never in our life (perhaps on Canaries or Madeira). I prefer smoothness from start up on. Big BF? Yes sometimes, but should that be a problem with 2 pound less brake power, my thumb will help me to solve this problem.
This information is clear, but for those of us, who have to go on greased is still the question of losing guarantee an important point.
In my history, the things are clear. In any way, I will try out the new brake unit not greased, and than …….. you could read about it here.
Saludos
Jürgen |