Great action vid. I am used to fishing with Penn reels because of the fact it made in the USA. But now I have purchased my first Avet reel HXW 5/2. Gonna give this thing at work butterfly jigging here in New Jersey out in the canyon. Hopefully I'll be able to hook up a big boy like you just pulled in. Your company has a great reputation for reels and I hope it lives up to.
Looked like you had a few different models going there. love the 30 narrow, or without the crossbar, for tuna in the under 175lb range. Use the 50n if I know there have been 300lb fish around. Caught a 125lb yellowfin on a MXL G2 MC last year. Took some time and some boat skills but these reels are tanks. There are other good big game reels, but I have caught a lot of big fish on my Avets.
I thought all of the fishing up in PEI was catch and release ? I do appreciate that you fished stand up on these great fish. Thank god you did not mimick those knuckleheads on "Wicked Tuna" . So, does the boat split the profits on the tuna you caught ? Do they comp you on the days charter ?I would love to have you answer some of these questions... Tight lines.. Holi-e-Mackeral
That's the guy from Berserker rods, whose custom made for the job rod, Extreme blank exploded on a Goliath Grouper on BlacktipH's boat. Shoulder used glass-fibre man...
They were using custom rods made by a builder called Armbreaker Rods. I've heard he's no longer in business. I'm not totally sure but I think these rods were built using Cal-star Grafighter blanks, that's what they look like.
