40# reel for surface iron

[alBACKore14]

if u want to get your moneys worth try out a trini 40N. nice reels. or if u can try the penn 4/0 but you cant beat the newell P 332 or 533 but its up to you.

IMO:alotta guys have there own feel when they are jigging and if any of them are most comfortable with you then go for it.

-eric

[JTAP]

I think your right comfort is the most important thing. This is why I prefer lighter reels.

Penn 4/0 unless its a Baja Special the gearing is not fast enough.

[South Bend]

Accurate 665 w/ 6:1

[JTAP]

Nothing wrong with that but they are $$$

[Fishin4Life]

Newell P 332-5

[ZZZZZ]

I failed to notice that allot of these recommendations are coming from dudes who have not had their balls drop yet. Once your balls drop and you get bigger including your hands your opinion might change.

When spool shrinks at a rapid rate line has MORE resistance coming off the spool. For a extreme example take a CT250 and empty allot of the spool. Not to the point of where you will take it to the knot but take allot of line off. Now manually pull the line off with your hand and let me know if there is more resistance then when the spool is full. Tiny spool means line has more resistance coming off. Or maybe this is easier to understand. If your spool needs to make 20 spins to dump the same amount of line off as my spool doing 15 spins figure it out. Same brand reel Newell. Or if your spool starts out only needing a few spins to dump 25 feet off and by the end of your cast it needs twice the amount of spins you just severely slowered your spool down and got less line off.

Once spool starts to disintegrate a 338 is going to take less spins to dump 250 feet off then your 332 dumping 250 feet off. 332 needs more rotations then 338. I like to get the most out of my spins. I find it odd no one has jumped in.

And Jtap dude give it up. I never claimed yardage. I claimed I can really empty that spool thus it weakens my cast. In the stern, wind assistance, hook being pulled boat moving up, I fire , yep 332 spool is going to be very small by the time my jig hits the water. By then end of my cast that spool will need to turn like 40 times just to dump another few feet off. More spins.

Nice to see who can fire and who cant, I can tell just by this thread.

Okay back to my room.

Bombs away.

[Trevor]

but by the time the spool gets that small the jig is in the water, even if you cast 100 yards. with a 332 and say 40 pound, and if you put line on tightly like your supposed to it won't make that much of a difference. On a 338 there is alot of sideways resistance, the narrower the spool is and if you fish like 40 or 50 pound it is easier for that line to come off at high speeds, say during a cast. I'm starting to get a feel for the penn 4/0' s with an accuate Yellowtail special frame and spool with 5.2:1 gears. Just my opinion.

[ZZZZZ]

Originally Posted by Trevor

but by the time the spool gets that small the jig is in the water, even if you cast 100 yards. with a 332 and say 40 pound, and if you put line on tightly like your supposed to it won't make that much of a difference. On a 338 there is alot of sideways resistance, the narrower the spool is and if you fish like 40 or 50 pound it is easier for that line to come off at high speeds, say during a cast. I'm starting to get a feel for the penn 4/0' s with an accuate Yellowtail special frame and spool with 5.2:1 gears. Just my opinion.

332 and 338 same reel. Once you are in mid cast the 332 needs more rotations to get the SAME distance as 338. You only get so many rotations.

I dont see how that does not make any sense.

But its all good like I said in my last post.

[JTAP]

ZZZZ, I might not be 10 feet tall like you but I am not small by anyones opinion, as far as hand size I can palm a basketball. I prefer you not touch my balls to see if they have dropped but at 30 if they dropped any further I mght be in trouble.

I have to agree that the wide spools have sideways resistance. Why don't you want to touch yardage, if you think your spool gets too small on the 332 then you are casting out about 200 yards. 200 feet I can believe, 200 yards is a sometime I have to see.

[ZZZZZ]

Originally Posted by JTAP

ZZZZ, I might not be 10 feet tall like you but I am not small by anyones opinion, as far as hand size I can palm a basketball. I prefer you not touch my balls to see if they have dropped but at 30 if they dropped any further I mght be in trouble.

I have to agree that the wide spools have sideways resistance. Why don't you want to touch yardage, if you think your spool gets too small on the 332 then you are casting out about 200 yards. 200 feet I can believe, 200 yards is a sometime I have to see.

I never said your balls have not dropped. BTW Iam 3' 10" ask Ali. I have caught all your smart ass comments

Sideways resistance give me a break. I can understand wobble in a 50W.


What ever. I have been firing surface iron since I was about 8 scrubbing the Malihini for years, always fishing forward of the bait tank, and I got a fucking really good handle on it at my age so do what ever you want and think what ever you want and preach shitty info all you want. Not to be lame but since you called me OUT I can tell you right now I got $1000 that says I can out cast you by atleast 30 feet with your own rod and reel combo on my 3rd try you get 10 tries. So if you are so sure of yourself then put your money where your mouth is or shut up.

I only mention this becuase you keep chiming back in calling me out. So lets find out.

[JTAP]

ZZZZ, I dont know why you are trying to compensate for. I am cool with the distance I can cast, I catch fish, I can admit that I dont get anywhere near 200+ yards on a cast. Now you want to come out like a big shot saying you will outcast me by 10 yards, with every post you come down to a more sane level. You show me you can get off 200+ yards and I will buy you a beer. You got to show what you got not just talk it. Yeah I am calling you out, show me you can cast over 200+

[Fresh One]

I can't believe I keep seeing this 40# reel thread on the top of the board each day. One simple question has turned into a cast off

Fuck it, I'm in. Somebody put this contest together. I've done this before on the Spirit and what I have seen is that almost everyone who can throw the plug at all will be within 10 - 15 feet of each other (except Jason). There might be an outlier who got some super distance (Kevin) but it has to be repeatable to matter. One cast only tells me who got the breeze and who didn't. Also, no fucking 6x Jr's or IronMan #5's allowed. Salas 7x is a good plug to use. Still light but not as light as a 45.

Maybe Anello can set this up. We could all get hammered down at Ski Beach and break out our jig sticks and try to nail the blow boater kooks