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Advice Penn Spinfisher 7500 LC?

Had both the old and new models, got rid of the newer ones but still use three of the older ones regularly for rough ground fishing. They’ve been great. Not the lightest, but very strong reels. And cast nicely.
 
Graeme1984 said:
Had both the old and new models, got rid of the newer ones but still use three of the older ones regularly for rough ground fishing. They’ve been great. Not the lightest, but very strong reels. And cast nicely.
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Any reason in particular for not keeping the newer ones Graeme?
 
flappy said:
Just a quick question..?
Why use braid and not mono..?
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I can get a higher breaking strain at a lower diameter than mono. I could potentially use a high enough breaking strain to fish with no shock leader and not really need a shock leader using the 10lb breaking strain to ounce rule and still only be equivalent to 18-20lb mono. If I do put a shock leader on it has a very small knot to go through the rod eyes.
I like the bite detection it gives, very direct as it is low to zero stretch.
I can but a lot of it relatively cheaply from china.
I like it as I use fixed spool reels.
 
Ollieollie said:
Which braid will you go for mate?
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I use the Dorisea-uk site on ebay, and it has Agepoch, Dorisea or Saratoga brands, posdibly others, probably all the same though.
I will be looking to buy that in 8-strand and will be lokking to buy a high vis colour, I think, yellow, orange, green or possibly the multi-coloured one the do.
Fishing at night from the rocks I want to see where the line is going and currently I am on 30lb 8 strand in red (saratoga shadowstrike) with an 80lb 4 strand shock leader in yellow which works really well when you get the torch on the yellow leader when bringing a fish in. The red does disappear a bit at night though.
I might scrap the yellow idea and go for another contrasting colour.
 
Thrasher said:
I can get a higher breaking strain at a lower diameter than mono. I could potentially use a high enough breaking strain to fish with no shock leader and not really need a shock leader using the 10lb breaking strain to ounce rule and still only be equivalent to 18-20lb mono. If I do put a shock leader on it has a very small knot to go through the rod eyes.
I like the bite detection it gives, very direct as it is low to zero stretch.
I can but a lot of it relatively cheaply from china.
I like it as I use fixed spool reels.
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Couldn't get on with it on my beachcasting F/S reels, but the same braid now works fine on my lure reels.
Could be to do with line lay on the old reel. Did consider trying 60lb braid straight through on my Surfblaster II LC - have now got a spare spool but not bought any Braid yet.
 
Thrasher said:
I use the Dorisea-uk site on ebay, and it has Agepoch, Dorisea or Saratoga brands, posdibly others, probably all the same though.
I will be looking to buy that in 8-strand and will be lokking to buy a high vis colour, I think, yellow, orange, green or possibly the multi-coloured one the do.
Fishing at night from the rocks I want to see where the line is going and currently I am on 30lb 8 strand in red (saratoga shadowstrike) with an 80lb 4 strand shock leader in yellow which works really well when you get the torch on the yellow leader when bringing a fish in. The red does disappear a bit at night though.
I might scrap the yellow idea and go for another contrasting colour.
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Useful info - I'll try to find that on eBay. 👍👍
 
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