mattfish11 : Fishing Forum Posts

Definitely go with what you are comfortable with. If you are more comfortable, you'll fish better!

I'm in the northeast... The binsky really shines in this cold weather! Find a good blade bait and just Jig it off the bottom!!!

I know this is an old topic, but I clean/upgrade and repair a bunch of different baitcasters.... 13 fishing has some quality reels - good quality internals and they fish really well!

I love me a Ned rig... I use a 7ft med rod and a 3000 size reel. I'm typically throwing 30lbs braid with a 6 or 8lbs fluoro leader. It's money!!!!!

I do a bunch of them... The ceramic hybrid bearings will out cast and outlast stock bearings. They area tad louder while casting, but hardly noticeable.

I really like the Spook type baits... But the popper seems to draw up some bigguns!

The bearings and brakes play together nicely. When you install better bearings, you just need to adjust the brakes appropriately but will certainly be able to cast farther. In addition to casting distance, ease of casting is improved. This means it takes way less effort to cast the same distance. Let me know if you have any other questions, I do ceramic hybrid bearing upgrades all the time.

There are a few top notch bearings, in my opinion. Hedgehog Studio, Boca, ZPI come to mind. And honestly for the price, speedspool bearings are impressive!

Bearing replacement is very easy. The bearing retainers are spring loaded but pretty easy to remove to switch out bearings. Most older shimano reels are 3x10x4 - and you'll need 2 of them. Hit me up and I can walk you through replacement. It should be pretty basic.