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Greetings to all!
Probably my fav' baitcaster of all time is my Garcia Ambassadeur XLT Plus. It has a feature I cannot find on any reel today at any price, but it's a little tuff for me to describe... When you depress the button to disengage the spool, it also separates the line guide from the pawl and wormgear. The line guide then simply rides left & right on a round bar that is magnetized in the center. The line guide "tracks" at the center, but effortlessly can be "twanged" back & forth across the bar, like it's riding on air... When you cast, the line guide "follows" the line coming off the spool. When you begin reeling, the worm gear catches the line guide and lays the line back on the spool. This makes casting much more smooth and allows for dramatically longer casts, especially with light lures. It also creates a continuous "rhythm" of the line on the spool, so there are no "gaps" in how the line is returned to the spool when wound back up. My brother just got a Shimano CalcuttaTE 200B and it doesn't have this feature. The line guide stops where ever you disengage the spool. When you cast, the line guide does not move at all. If you don't manually set the line guide in the center of the spool before you cast, there is "drag" from the line spooling back & forth off the spool, especially if the line guide is on one side of the spool and you are using a light lure. Ditto for my Johnny Morris Signature JMX10HC. In fact, I went to Bass Pro last week and could not find a single baitcaster that has this feature. The salesman didn't know of any reels that had this. I showed it to him on my reel, and then how it works on several of their premium reels, and it blew him away. He had never seen this before. Does anyone know of a currently produced reel that has this "free running" line guide feature? I need to get a couple of reels, and really would like to have this feature on them. Thanks for reading through my post and good fishing to all. |
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