New Toy arrived today

[Feral]

My new reel arrived from Ebay - yankland today. Daiwa Advantage 153hsta.

$160 Australian to the door. (Cost $240 at Mo Tackle, sans postage!)

She is a bewdy. light as a feather, looks the part. Dan recommended her, and when the mob that sold Gazza his reel took 2 weeks to reply to my emails about the browning, it was to late, had already order the daiwa!

Here is a promotional pic [img size=400]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/pictdahsta3.jpg

[fishyman]

haha dans gonna be jealous!

looks like a great reel hope you break it in soon

[Shrimpo]

NICE!! Looks fantastic, What you plan to target with that and what lines on it?

[Do$tylz]

Nice and shiny. Makes me want to go and buy one

[kevinchen19870316]

dan won't be jealous fishyman. he's just picked up his 2 TDA reels and some other stuff

[Plastic Man]

nice reel mate now all you have to do is go get a bass with it thats the fun part

[fishyman]

kevinchen19870316 wrote:

dan won't be jealous fishyman. he's just picked up his 2 TDA reels and some other stuff

oooh nice so they did arrive today :woohoo:

awesome

[Feral]

Got some spiderwire stealth going on it at some stage this week. Got it mainly for Bass, but doubling for barra on my once or twice a year trip to the big dams.

[kevinchen19870316]

feral, bassing's kinda too easy, try cranking up a threadfin on that reel and that's the awesome part

[Dan23]

They're a nice reel alright. very nice for the price. I'm surprised how strong the drag is too. Hopefully it'll make not catching anything at NPD a little more fun lol:cheer:

We'll have to have some casting comps Feral:woohoo:

[kevinchen19870316]

it's hard to hand 2 TDA reels and some line and tools to someone else u know?

[Feral]

Kev, not to many threadfin in the dams! (Its rare I fish salt), barra or cod will do me nicely.

Probably no good casting Dan, I'll be spooling with 15 or 20lb braid, you'll no doubt have something akin to spiderweb on yours, giving you a slight advantage!

[chubbstar]

Very nice Feral, Alex will put that to good use catching all the Bass:P :laugh: :laugh:

[Dan23]

ha ha, no I'm actually using some pretty heavy braid. 10lb Powerpro which is pretty strong stuff made for the US market. Probably more like 20-30lb.

I don't want to lose too many lures to the grass.

[BassTracker]

I'd love to see some big barra pics soon, havnt heard much on the big barra dams of late

[Feral]

Chubbstar, - Alex wont even know I have it, It wont be coming out in his sight!

Dan, the braid I am using is fairly thick as well, but bewdiful and limp - not like that mongrel 6lb fire(barbwire)line I have on my bass spinning reel!

[Dan23]

Just went and had some casts at the Breaky Creek boat ramp to try it out. Man, it'll take some getting used to such a free spool. I found myself picking out a few little tangles. It casts a jackal Chubby about 30FT comfortably though and feels like with some serious practice it holds the potential to do everything I would want it to. The drag also surprised me, it is only rated at 9.1lb by TT but locking it up I struggled to really pull line off the spool without cutting my hand. Can't wait to christen it with something BIG:cheer: