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The 6500 baitrunner is a great reel for the beach. I have used it for a couple of years and caught loads of blues and bass up to 35lbs. I just sent it in to get serviced this year and they gave me the new 6500b. i hope it is as good as the old one. It feels alot smoother and the drag is supposed to be waterproof. It is a little heavier than the older one but not by much. I use it on a 10 foot seeker surf stick and the outfit works really great for chunking. I can throw up to a 8 oz and a chunk.
I live in NY I sent it to shimano in Calif. I did not want them to switch it but they did without letting me know. I called them and asked for my older one back and was told it was recycled and was gone forever. my reel was in bad shape I took a couple of falls this winter and that really messed it up. I fished it very hard and had no problems with it until the falls.
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shimano baitrunner
I've gotta disagree w/ the rest; those baitrunner reels are all too **** bulky, uncomfortable, complicated, and unreliable. A friend of mine has a 4500, and it's just allways been a nightmare in my hands; the automatic engaging of the drag has lost fish, the anti-reverse constanly malfunctions, and even with the maintenence that works fine w/ all the other spinning reels, it still works like ****, after only a few seasons. I just think they are just made cheap.
For that reason, I held off on the free-spooling spinning reels. When penn came out with the live-liner though, I sprung for it. Compare the live-liner and the baitrunner and you can see the difference in quality. One reel is very large, light and complicated, the other is compact, solid and simple. Fishing with them is night and day. I am also very impressed that Penn got rid of the useless reverse-reeling feature, nobody uses it, and it tends to break on every brand of reels (yes, penns as well as shimano's).
Jon
(This post edited by leakyrivot on 02/04/2003)
I've gotta disagree w/ the rest; those baitrunner reels are all too **** bulky, uncomfortable, complicated, and unreliable. A friend of mine has a 4500, and it's just allways been a nightmare in my hands; the automatic engaging of the drag has lost fish, the anti-reverse constanly malfunctions, and even with the maintenence that works fine w/ all the other spinning reels, it still works like ****, after only a few seasons. I just think they are just made cheap.
For that reason, I held off on the free-spooling spinning reels. When penn came out with the live-liner though, I sprung for it. Compare the live-liner and the baitrunner and you can see the difference in quality. One reel is very large, light and complicated, the other is compact, solid and simple. Fishing with them is night and day. I am also very impressed that Penn got rid of the useless reverse-reeling feature, nobody uses it, and it tends to break on every brand of reels (yes, penns as well as shimano's).
Jon
(This post edited by leakyrivot on 02/04/2003)
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