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I spray my rods down with a salt wash like salts gone or starke salt clean leave the tackle on and spray that too, And then lightly spray (low pressure almost a mist) my reels with the same salt stuff. Really gotta emphasize the super low pressure that’s key.

Awesome video, song birds in the background are pretty good too !!

Damn, i always learn something from your videos. Thats whats this game is really all about, fishing is fishing. But finding the little tips & tricks can really put you on the next level. Love it, great stuff as always captain. Sending love from New Jersey

Tx wade fisherman here. I wade lots of high salinity areas like matagorda and baffin bay 2-3x weekly. In my tackle bag I keep a small spray bottle of 50/50 distilled water and salt away in my tackle bag. A quick spray and wipe keeps everything great. Then just a drop of clenzoil on the work gear.

I won't speak about Shimano rods but I can say with over 50+ years of fishing experience and owning dozens of Shimano reels to include first run Calcutta 250 and 400's that still work great I have only had two reel failures, and both are the same reel, a Stradic 3000. I don't think there is a better reel made than Shimano. A little care goes a long way. Another very useful video.

Excellent video and tips C.A. I do almost the same type of maintenance. I use Clenzoil on my knives and guns too. Gonna have to put it in my reels for additional protection 💪🏻🎣👍🏻✅

Wow, I definitely learn something every video! I’ve definitely been doing this wrong…Thanks again CA!!!

Love clenzoil. It works great on all sorts of gear. Oddly, I like the smell too.

I won a bottle of that reel magic in a spray on a Captains Cove contest. I put it on my reels after I've cleaned them by just spraying it on and leaving it. I don't wipe it off and they stay looking great. I've heard good things about that cleansall too

This was very informative although I am guilty of the high pressure wash down! Thanks for the video!

I can't wait for you to get to 50k subs!!!!! I really enjoy the content. And while I seriously appreciate that dedication to cleaning - and would love to have the time to do that myself (professional engineer, fishes quite seriously, but not enough time to do that kind of daily maintenance ....the business person in me starts doing some math....I'm assuming maybe you guide 100 days a year. 4 rod/reels per day. 10 minutes per each rod/reel/day = 67 hours in maintenance. at...let's say a shop rate of $60/hr (shop rate after guide duty), that's $4,020 per year you are spending on maintenance. That buys a lot of rods and reels and costs a lot of 'honey' time....I'm just sayin' ;-)

I love this damn channel

Finally !!!! Great vid as always

thanks for the tips

Great video. Question, I use Penn Spinfisher VI's that are IPX5 sealed. In theory, they should be sealed from a light wash down at the end of the day? I use the mist or the soaker setting and never the jet. Am I really driving salt IN?

Great subject

Would love to see the same video but for your baitcasters. Specifically a tranx 150, chronarch and curado.

Great advice though if you rinse off with water at low pressure it’s not going to push the salt into the reel especially if you turn the reel both way to let it drip out. Reels have a lot of small crevices where salt can build up and I don’t see how a wipe can get it all off. I have gently rinsed off my reels for years with no issues, but I think also applying the Clenzoil stuff after is a great idea. Maybe if you have cheaper reels with fewer seals and without X-protect then water could force salt in, but on the mid and high end Shimano and any MagSealed Daiwa reels, you aren’t really going to push water inside if you rinse gently. Just my thoughts (and I own around 80 reels from every brand).

good stuff man

How's your aquatraction holding up? What type of nonskid is underneath? Diamond pattern or leather type?

Do you do the same exact thing with baitcasters?

Dude I've been fishing Tampa all day and got completely skunked

What do you seal the cork with?

What do you use to reseal the cork handles?

Do you guys get salt-away in America?

I’ll tell you what I think I have never not learned something from you a lot just saying lol

I am a reel repair technician. I clean and repair reels every day. Cap has it right. Less is more. Do not force water into your reel. And REEL MAGIC is not a reel cleaner. It is a monofilament softener. If you spray that on the reel, it will soften the paddles on the handle. This will make them gummy, sticky and nasty. I sell new handles all the time because of this misleading product.

See you don't have to pick up every single rod and tip it downwards. That's one extra stop you don't have to do imo The trick is not to spray your reels with any kind of pressure so what I do is lean all my rods I've used up against a wall as straight as possible with very little flex in the blank. ( Don't want uncalled for stress on your blanks ) Then you can spray the rods from tip down to the top handle and back up. Then spray the bottom of rod without spraying reel. Once that's done , then remove sprayer from hose , turn down the water pressure until the water comes out in a solid stream with a little pressure as possible , tighten down your drag ( not locked down but snug ) gently rinse your reels off with freshwater. After you completed rinsing off your combos , pick each one up individually and rock them / shake them so the extra water comes off as much as possible , let air dry for a few hours , loosen your drag and shake your combos one more time just in case any extra water is still on your combos. After all that , take a microfiber cloth , spray 2 or 3 sprays of clenzoil on that cloth and rub down your entire combo. Tip , guides , reel and so on. I have ocd so I always take spool cap off , spool off , handle off , handle cap off and wipe them all off as well Don't matter the price of reel $100 Nasci like in your video or up to the $800 Stella's there no reason to risk any of them without actually washing everything off with freshwater. All it takes is a few drops of saltwater to get to your reel and it's either gonna need a repair or its toast. Note - if using a Shimano reels like Ca or I do , never use clenzoil or clenzoil grease on the inside of a Shimano reel. Make sure to use Shimano grease on the inside of the reel if you are able to do a full breakdown of your reels yourselves. Also take Shimano drag grease , take apart your line roller , cake both sides of the line roller bearing with Shimano drag grease that makes a " seal " also makes the bearing so much smoother. This will prevent your bearing from going bad. I do this every 6 months to my reels and haven't lost a line roller bearing in years now