For trolling tunas in the 2-3 days range, what lines should be spooled on the reel? Thanks.
1355468
It all depends on the size of the tuna that show up. If you want to use a heavy line use a braided line with a mono backing. The line will b small diameter high lb weight. I keep 40 on mine works for me.
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Not sure what you mean in the '2-3 days range'. I fish from a kayak and run 65 lb power pro w/ 60lb top shot (mono) and 60-100lb leader (fluoro). Note, before spooling the power pro I run some mono on the spool for the power pro to bite into (if I ever hook up to a big enough fish).
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I go tuna for a one day trip and I use Berkley Big Game white/clear 40 lb. I fish for albacore and it does great. Hope this helps you. Good luck
1226707
When letting line out of the reel or reeling it in, the levelwind guides the line onto the reel evenly so that the line is evenly dispersed in the spool. I use this reel mainly bait fishing for catfish and striped bass, but it also works well for trolling. It depends on how comfortable you are with using a bait caster.
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Nothing but I ordered another extra spool so I could easily switch to a higher or lower pound line. But that is from another site was like $20. But I have landed 5-7 pound salmon with 8lb line on this reel no problem.
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William - Braided line will absolutely work with this pole. I have two of them and I use braid. Do you have a question about using braid or just about using it on this pole? I use braid for the backing and then add a "TOP SHOT" of about 100 yards of mono on top of that. This way you get the best of both worlds... Plenty of line with the braid and a little bit of stretch with the mono. Caught a 40 Pd Kingfish yesterday.
698155
Excellent reel, you can't go wrong with this. Buy and extra spool so you can use floating or sinking line by just popping on the other spool. You could pay 2-3 this price for no better reel
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First I would have recommended a higher drag weight on the reel. It sounds like you want heavy fish, so I would go with the 300 yds. You also may want to consider going to 50 lb. line, between your rod and the drag you can handle some pretty large fish with this set up. Remember to balance you drag with the weight recommendation of the rod builder.
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The reel doesn't come pre spooled. I always spool my own reels. Depends on the rod I'm going to use the reel on as to which line you would like to use.
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I use the 20lb test, moss green on my Abu Garcia Blackmax baitcasting reel. Had no issues whatsoever with the line, even when fishing in some thick hydrilla. Pulled bass right out and have yet to break or fray the line. I'd recommend giving it a shot.
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Hi, Tony: I don't know, I have only owned one and and have used it a lot. Drag on any reel was a mystery to me until my savey fishing buddie, Harrold, shared with me the key after I lost my second good bass from broken line. He told me to tighten the drag until I could just barely pull line freely. His point, you can add drag after the fish is on, but you can't back off drag because you won't know when until the line has already broken! The red ten-pound line on the ZO3 is good stuff. Don't over do the drag and you won't be sorry. I don't use trebble hooks on the ZO3 because I use it primarily as a crappie rig. The 4.3 to one gear ratio won't easily allow strong, steady pressure on the line while reeling in, so you cannot let up when reeling in even a one pound crappie or it will throw the single hook. So, set your drag light enough to pull line by hand and keep the pressure on when reeling in and you'll eat fish tonight!
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I recommend the 3/4 line weight Cahill Crystal River reel....they are about 10$ here on Amazon. GREAT, light, reel
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I use my trio30 in freshwater for bass, the 30 is the perfect size for bass it will hold one spool of line about 110yrds of 8 or 10 pound test the drag is super smooth. Great for what you want to use it for.
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It depends on a variety of things length should always depend on what is comfy I find 9 -10 foot easy to control strength depends on the reel itself I found this reel a little weak for what I do should prolly stick with 5-7 smaller trout and not bad for bass hope this helps
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I'm using 10lb Cajun Line Mono in a 6-14lb Shimano spinning rod. works good on large fish, but I'm not at a place to surf fish.
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It does not come prespooled with line. However, I have bought many baitcast reels over the years and none of them have ever come prespooled. You can take a reel to Bass Pro Shops, Cabelas or your local bait and tackle shop to have it spooled for a fee.
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I use the 600LC with braid trolling for bass with no problems so far. Set your drag right since there is very little stretch. I have a ten foot mono shock leader. On the 800 LC I use stainless wire and have caught plenty of bass and blues with no problems Good luck
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How much line it will hold. Different spools, different uses. Sorry, don't remember which I chose for freshwater...I do love the reel though. I use a my. if bait cast and spinning reels...all are Shimano and I won't buy anything else!
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Line does not come on the reel spool when you receive it. Line is very easy to put on the spool and you should have no problem doing this. You can go on to the Penn web site and you will fined the information concerning extra reel spools for the Penn FRC6000. Thanks Bill