10-28-2009, 01:53 AM
I have the cabelas gold trolling reel, i have noticed that it isn't entirely accurate. I first noticed when i'd drop back 250 feet of line and reel in to the tip of the rod and it said i had -977. I think in my case it has something to do with the heavy line, when i used thin diameter braid it was always within 10 feet when i'd drop back 300 or even 400 feet. I have a distance wheel that i checked it with on the school lawn one day. I had the cheap cabelas line counter first, it is low quality and has plastic gears but it lasted me almost 2 years of hard fishing before one of those plastic gears stripped and the reel was toast.
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