Round reels. How many use them in your arsenal?

[dave0943]

I don't know if there has been a thread that covers this topic, other than reel reviews. How many of you use a round reel? What brand? What kind and size rod do you use for it? What do you use it for?

I use Abu 5600C4 and 4600C4's. I have the 5600 on a 7' MH Ugly Stik lite. The 4600 on a Med 6'6" Berkley Shock rod. As I wrote in another thread I was using the 5600/ Ugly stick with 30 lb Power Pro until a few weeks ago when I saw the line was eating up my rod guides. I am either going to put the reel on another Shock rod or a Cabela's Fish Eagle 2. The Fish eagle is a great rod for around 80.00. It has Fuji hard guides. I'll continue to use the power Pro line. I use this for areas that has Pike and a few Musky mixed in with some larger bass. I use this for Swim baits, Spoons, and Carolina rigs, heavy large cranks.

The 4600 is spooled with 15 Lb stealth spider. This gets used for Cranks, lighter swim baits, Light jigging spoons in semi deep water. I also use it for Senkos and for worms in shallow water.

I will say that the majority of my rigs are Lo Pro set ups. I learned to use a bait caster MANY years ago. A Abu C3 5500 was what I learned on. One of the biggest reasons, other than they are great reliable reels is, that when I use them, it takes me back to those days long ago when I first learned. Nostalgia is the word. Still like to use them after all these years. My C3's have been given to my four sons. They all learned on them. Was I mean! The reels still work like the day I bought them. With proper maintenance, they do last forever. I'd be interested to hear if others still use these great dinosaurs.

Dave