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A Reel That You Must Keep
Dry !
LLLooking for a drag system that
would be an improvement over the old click and paw drag
system that my Hardy LRH offered I decided to give the
Scientific Anglers System 2-L Reels a try. My choice was
their model 56 L which was designed to accommodate about one
hundred yards of twenty pound test backing and a WF6F fly
line. I liked the light weight design of the reel and it's
drag system seemed to work great at first. My desire was to
be able to control the large rainbows and browns that
migrate out of Hebgen Lake and run up the Madison River
every fall to spawn. My first test of this new reel would be
in late October on the Madison River in Yellowstone National
Park. The reel and drag system worked great. I was able to
control and land my first two leaping rainbows without any
problem. When I hooked my next fish my problems began.
Apparently during the process of landing my previous rainbow
I inadvertently submerged my Scientific Anglers 56 L reel in
the Madison River. Now that I was fast to my third fish I
realized that the drag system had completely failed. I
virtually had no drag at all. I turned the drag adjustment
as far as it could go but that would only offer the
slightest improvement. After landing that beautiful brown
sometime later I sat down, took apart the reel and dried the
drag system as well as I was able and resume fishing this
time trying to avoid any possibility of submerging the
reel.
I have since experienced this same
problem with the Scientific Angler 56 L reel and have sold
it.
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Copyright
@ 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 by
Bob Kloskowski
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