elliottwaters
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I presume these have been reviewed before, but I’m a big closed face fan and after Santa in the form of ‘er indoors kindly bought me one for Christmas and its had several months of use, I thought I’d do a review.
Can’t complain about the pouch, the three spools and the spare pipe cleaner (chenille?) stuff and performance wise it works very well. I used it several times for trotting and the line pays off the spool nicely. The single pin pick up works OK and picks up line on the strike. To date, I’ve had no instances of the line getting caught in front of the spool and tangling in the bell housing.
As for the synchro drag, on my old 506 I had removed the anti-reverse thingy in order t play fish on the backwind as the drag proved pretty useless. However, on the 706 I was pleasantly surprised and on the lakes, it’s copied with nine and ten pound carp, albeit with the line bedding in afterwards. You also have the option of taking the anti-reverse off and playing on the backwind if you want to.
The build quality? I had read adverse comments about this and yes, the reel is made in China and looks a bit “plasticky”. However I think we sometimes forget that back in the 1970’s when the 500 series were produced a new 501 or 506 would cost over 20 quid and to produce a reel of comparable quality today you would be looking at well over 100.
Overall, not a bad a reel at all and when trotting, or light float fishing on still waters, particularly if it’s wet or windy, then its first out of the box.
Can’t complain about the pouch, the three spools and the spare pipe cleaner (chenille?) stuff and performance wise it works very well. I used it several times for trotting and the line pays off the spool nicely. The single pin pick up works OK and picks up line on the strike. To date, I’ve had no instances of the line getting caught in front of the spool and tangling in the bell housing.
As for the synchro drag, on my old 506 I had removed the anti-reverse thingy in order t play fish on the backwind as the drag proved pretty useless. However, on the 706 I was pleasantly surprised and on the lakes, it’s copied with nine and ten pound carp, albeit with the line bedding in afterwards. You also have the option of taking the anti-reverse off and playing on the backwind if you want to.
The build quality? I had read adverse comments about this and yes, the reel is made in China and looks a bit “plasticky”. However I think we sometimes forget that back in the 1970’s when the 500 series were produced a new 501 or 506 would cost over 20 quid and to produce a reel of comparable quality today you would be looking at well over 100.
Overall, not a bad a reel at all and when trotting, or light float fishing on still waters, particularly if it’s wet or windy, then its first out of the box.
