Comments on: Best Baitcasting Reels Reviewed: The Definitive Guide https://outdoorempire.com/picking-a-best-baitcasting-reel/ Gear Up and Get Outside! Tue, 25 Jul 2023 14:41:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 By: Brian https://outdoorempire.com/picking-a-best-baitcasting-reel/#comment-791 Wed, 30 May 2018 05:30:23 +0000 https://outdoorempire.com/?p=5577#comment-791 Kastking is not the best bang for your buck!!! Not by a long shot!
They’re junk compared to any brand name reel,so save up and buy a real reel…pun intended.
I bought the Rover 50L (lefty) to try and see how it was.
It was kind of a disappointment from the start.My fingers had a hard time adjusting the spool tensioner on the left (craking) side.Then the tensioner wouldn’t stay adjusted.This turned out to be rubber discs in the tensioner caps on both sides so I ditched those (all while at the water mind you) for round discs cut from a plastic milk container.This seemed to help a good bit over the rubber.
Over the weeks I’ve had it I have used it for Channel Cats (all I fish for) and each day seemed like it’s casting distance would be less and less.Tonight I was at the water again and it wouldn’t cast over 20yds.I reeled it in after the last time of trying to set the tensioners with no luck and propped it against the tree and fished with my other 2 reels (Abu and Shimano).A little while later I remembered I had a small travel can of WD40 in the truck so I went and retrieved it.I sat there tearing this reel apart and adding lube to everything but the drag.
I then added another piece of cut Sunfish to the hook,adjusted the tensioners and made a castout.To my surprise it did the same damn thing once again.
I gave up on it and tore the reel off the rod and went back to using my old trusty Quantum Iron IR3L.All my reels are 20+ yrs old and not one of them has given me a ounce of problem in that time.
This reel is being sent back to Amazon for a full refund!

Watch,these reels are marketed as other off-brand names from the great old junk store across the sea,Asia.If they look nearly identical except for name and color then you can lay your money on it coming off the same junk assembly line,that goes for about 99% of everything else made in the world.If it looks the same it more than likely is.

Like I said,save up a little longer and get a real reel like a Daiwa,Shimano,Abu,etc.
Yes a lot of these are made in Asia too but the quality control is much much better.

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