Awesome video man! Thank you I was having trouble with it casting. I tightened that screw up and it cast with no problem now. I have mine for years. No need for these expensive reels these are good and cheap reels
It takes some pretty fine tuning to use as a casting reel. The bigger your weight it seems the easier it is to dial in because unlike a $100+ trolling reel, the tension adjustment isn't the easiest to tune for decent casts.
just bought this joker today, I feel the same about it as you do, the hard plastic frame is my only con. awesome vid. though kept me from taking mine apart to see the guts
thanks, big jack. i appreciate seeing the inside without having to pull my new reel apart. and i didnt know about the clicker part until you "clicked" it. i thought it was a knob where you somehow lubed it. the thing about these inexpensive reels is that they use the same technologies as the tournament ones but with less expensive parts; and they are made for the common man and dont come with detailed instructions with "about" info. so thanks, brother. taking it to lake degray for the weekend and hopeful to find a nice 400ft deep area to drop my line in and see what happens.
We have about 4 of these reels and the only thing we found wrong with it was, like you said, the release catch will sometimes click back in place when you throw it. Thanks for the tip on tightening up the screw!! Gonna try it and see if it helps!!! Great review video, brother!!! #REAPERCATFISHINGCREW
Did that help yaw out? only thing is you jus have to keep checking it, i got one that will come untighten after few cast, and you have to flip the lever up, just cant reel to engage it
I have 3 of these reels, they are decent inexpensive catfish reels with drag rated at 20 lbs. If they had counter balanced power handles they would be really good for the money. I used the old Shakespeare Tidewater 30 Ls and LAs for decades and caught many 50+ pound cats with them.
I just landed an 11.5 lb 30inch channel cat on my zebco omega pro-3 reel with a 7foot med action ugly stik, handled it like a champ! Zebco 33 (max reels) can handle big cats too!! Nice catch!
Nice sized cat! My first reel was a zebco. I bough my son one last year, the quality doesn't seem to be what they used to. Maybe we just got a bad one.
Nice catch! That's all much buddy uses is an 808 and he has caught a bunch of nice channels. I have a 33 but I use a spinning reel for my cats.Great video!
