Need Your Input For Next Tiburon Project? Newell 322XN or T60WEX Super Six?

Started by Vintage Offshore Tackle, October 13, 2018, 08:03:24 PM

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thorhammer

What in the world would one do with an XN Squidder vs. 146 width? I can throw most of line off a 146, and my thumb is already too fat for a XN Jiggy :), as Ted asked me the other day why I hadn't built one. Just curious as to application.

jigmaster501

anyone thought of making narrow daiwa sealine kits????? 30h, 50h, 400h?????

Ron Jones

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Gfish

Quote from: thorhammer on October 22, 2018, 06:58:29 PM
What in the world would one do with an XN Squidder vs. 146 width? I can throw most of line off a 146, and my thumb is already too fat for a XN Jiggy :), as Ted asked me the other day why I hadn't built one. Just curious as to application.
Same question. The 146 Squidder's a pretty small reel already.
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Darin Crofton

Quote from: jigmaster501 on October 23, 2018, 01:13:18 AM
anyone thought of making narrow daiwa sealine kits????? 30h, 50h, 400h?????
A narrow Sealine would be so awesome, start with the 300h maybe? I have a bunch of different sizes and would be all over this!
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Ron Jones

The 146 holds 300 yards of 65# braid. The Saltist 20LD I used extensively on the SOA trip holds 250 yards of 40# braid. A squidder with a 3 or 5 stack is never going to be a 60# reel.

A 146xn would have the needed line capacity and a much lighter spool than the 146. THat light spool may mean flipping a sardine past the skipjack and into the yellowtail.

As far as fly lining live bait and casting surface iron, the spool can never be to light.  Now, a 146xn with jigmaster guts with a 4.8:1 gear ratio? Almost as good as a CS 501.
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thorhammer

Got it....that'd mainly be a Left Coast app. Here we'd surfcast it, which means 20 lb mono, and the 146 only holds 230 yards or so as it is. A narrow one would be so far down in the arbor it would take all day to wind in 8 ozs of lead. By the time the OBX breeze gets it youre out 150yds of line to touchdown.

Ron Jones

When I was in Groton, I'd cast stick baits and plastics for stripers off the fishing pier. A little ree like this on an 8ft 20# rod would be perfect.
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thorhammer

True. We just don't have any plates for them; I probably have a half dozen waiting that aren't already  CC Classic 146's. Tom, how about some Squidder magnum plates? :)

Darin Crofton

Quote from: thorhammer on October 23, 2018, 09:21:09 PM
True. We just don't have any plates for them; I probably have a half dozen waiting that aren't already  CC Classic 146's. Tom, how about some Squidder magnum plates? :)

or get a pro gear 255, I believe it's a squidder magnum?
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Ron Jones

The 255 is a squidder magnum, but the cs 501 is smaller and faster. It'd take some math, but I bet a 5:1 extra narrow squidder would be about the same as a 501.
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Ron Jones

To answer the original question, I think the Newell would be the winner.
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mo65

   I'd love to see something in a new direction...but unfortunately it's a direction only about a dozen of us would care about. A frame for the 210 would be awesome, one that kept the levelwind would be "creative awesome". 8)
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