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cat---if you don't already have a 7000c3, Abu sells "CT" (no level wind) versions of that reel overseas. They also used to sell a Big Game version here with a little faster retrieve. They were discontinued for the 2001 model year, but some shops may still have a few in their stocks. Ask around, doesn't hurt.

You also might be able to order a CT frame directly from Abu's parent company, Pure Fishing. Same place as Berkley.

If you can get a spare frame---it takes less than 5 minutes to swap.

 

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cat---among other things:

-pi beyond 4 places
-the square root of anything more than 144
-if it's really true that for every drop of rain that falls, a flower grows. Or if no two snowflakes are really alike.
-how much wood a woodchuck could chuck if he could chuck wood
-how my wife can drop an easy deuce in a store where nothing costs more that $6.99
-how I can get by with 3 pairs of shoes while she needs about 40

And a million other things like that

As far as fishing goes:

-anything involving flyrods
-anything having to do with boat fishing
-how people manage to catch bonito and albies from the shore and why I can't seem to
-the experience of getting a 50# bass actually on the beach

And maybe a few hundred other things