As a guy who usually goes way overkill with reel size I was leaning the 150 for a squarebill setup because I felt 85 yards of 12lb on the 70 wouldn’t be enough 🙄. It really depends on the situation but I ended up going with the 70 and so glad I did. Lighter, smaller, just more comfortable all around. And even though it’s says 85 yards of 12lb I was able to get 96 yards of Sunline FC crank on it without overfilling it. Love it!
I dont have any 70 size reels but I pitch a ton. I always liked the 100 series. I just thought they were more light weight designed so I never looked at them. I may have to go put my hands on a 70 at the tackle store and see how it feels. 👍🏼👊🏼
My slx mgl is probably my favorite reel that I own, and was also the cheapest. I upgraded the bearings to Boca. Great for pitching texas rigs. This platform will also BOMB jerkbaits into the next dimension on light line. I keep 8-10 lb test on mine.
Glad they’re going back to smaller reels and spools. My first reel was the original Lews Speed Spool made by Shimano. I used #8 mono and it held like a 110 yards and I could spool it worth a Zara Spook easily. But I could also work a 1/16 oz Texas Rig and throw 1/8 and 1/4 oz lures with ease. Years ago Shimano made the Core 50. Awesome reel. Then recently they’ve come back starting with the Aldebaran. But now they’ve been slowly putting them in other models
Been liking the Daiwa and Shimano 70/80 sizes. Thinking they maybe a great all around for the Yak. Look forward to your review of the new SLX when it is out!
Love my slx mgl 70 reel its my squarebill and light to medium weight cranking reel. I wouldn't ever pitch my area with a shimano though lol to much thick stuff and not enough drag poundage imo. I make 20lb drags slip 😂. I have two 150 size and the curado 200 too. All great reels just don't use them for frogs, most topwater baits or pitching and flipping cover. I use a lews or a abu revo for that.
The SLX MGL 70 first version came out at the same time as the Curado MGL 70 and has been a much better value I have been using both since they were first released, and on the water, I have to look at the reel to tell which one I'm using at the time since there is no real world performance difference between them. The new version has the MGL III spool and is gong to blow the Curado out of the water. The JDM SLX DC has been a 70 size with the MGL spool for a couple of years now and the SLX DC XT even has the I-DC5 braking system (think Metanium DC in the US market) in addition to the MGL III spool.
And for reference, I use one of my SLX MGL 70s with 6# for throwing spybaits and really light crankbaits. I use another with 20# braid to a long 10# leader for jerkbaits. The Curado 70s I have one rigged exactly like the second SLX on a second of the same rod for a second jerkbait (different sizes or depths), light underspin, or light to medium topwater. The other I have with 30# braid to a leader for shaky head and light Texas rigs. The MGL spools are great for long casts, but I lean on my Daiwa reels for pitching as the magnetic brakes just have better control at lower spool speeds.
With the 70, I would be concerned that if I was nearly spooling the reel on the cast, the inches per turn on line retrieval would be significantly smaller.
Thanks man! Depends what you want to do with it. I mainly use that Curado to pitch with, so I have it on a heavy power rod. I have another 70 on a top water rod.
If Im just throwing low weight/weightless texas rigs, some spinnerbaits, and the occasional jig, would the 70 size be okay? I would put 12lb fc on it and I rarely cast over 40 yards i'd estimate. I stupidly bought an SLX DC 71 on Amazon without first researching what the 70 meant 😅
@@TackleJunky81 I have four of them. They were purchased around 98-2000. They are like little machines. So simple to clean. Cast like champ. Best money I ever spent. Buy the Calcutta. I got my son one for graduation. Now it is called the conquest.
I just don't understand these small spools. I get it for techniques like BFS and whatnot. But I'm a tournament guy. I want all the line I can get because I'm retying all day long. So the "barely" reduced performance of having the larger spool is a much larger benefit of not having to respool during the day. I say that because go weigh 50-70 yards of 12-15 lb test line. It's less than a gram of weight. It's nothing. So if you tournament fish you're much better off with the larger spools and learning to control them than you are with the miniscule finesse of the smaller spools. That's my $0.02 from someone that's fished tournaments going on 20 years now.
I think it’s about what feels good in the hand. If you need the extra line for tournaments, then this doesn’t make sense. For those days of just relaxed fishing this works great.
Absolutely great video... Alot of good points and tips , I actually just ordered the new slx a 70 , mgl spool at a $99.99 price... Hard to beat that as a workhorse flipper
