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Whether youre casting in a tranquil freshwater lake or battling the surf in the salty sea, the reel is your connection to the catch
There are two removable compression bungees on the sides that testers noted were too high to really slim down a bulky pack
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those 20-foot critters on spinning gear, but you could never get it to work "right." For those baits, a long cast, some real quick cranks of the reel, then the power of a low-speed baitcaster will make that baby wobble and "dig" that no spinning tackle can achieve