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Tacklebox - part 2

Tacklebox - Part 1

Ever Green Hip and Shoulder bag. Never leave home without it.

What is permanently in mine.

Small pliers / line cutter / split ring opener and nail-clippers

Where the goodies is at

ygk Galis Shore Leader 20lbs and Berkley Vanish 12lbs

Various snaps, split rings ans split shot weights.

Lighter and Rapala ruler

Cheap polarised sunglasses

DIY knot assist for tying FG knot.

16/2/13 catch report

Amazonian x 5
Jelawat x 3
Mekong x 1
Corpse of Mekong x 1

CNY fishing in EAK

Went EAK this morning.

Had 3 strike early in the morning before 8.30.

All on a red/gold ofmer wander 50.

Didn't manage to set hook on all 3 strikes.

Was quiet after that until I left the place at 11am.

Abu Garcia Revo LTX dissected

Handle with screw removed. Loving the carbon fibre handle!

Open the screw and remove the nut lock. The nut lock turns the opposite way to loosen.  The normal rules which applies to all screws and nuts : lefty-loosy, righty-tighty. This rule doesn't apply to the handle nut and the drag star.

Handle, star drag, cast control knob removed.

To get into the gears compartment, you need to remove all screws, top left and bottom right. Loosen the plate screw as well.

Turn it counter-clockwise to loosen.

To open the side-plate, turn it counter-clockwise as well.

The third screw securing the plate in place.

Removing the spool will gives you access to the 3rd screw which secures the  plate of the gears compartment.

Ordered chaos.

After removing everything, make sure you put it in some sort of order so you can remember what and which goes in first during the assembly.

Drag stack

I am still wondering how this drag stack is able to churn out the rated drag ratings.

Orange bracket is installed upside-down.

Notice that the orange bracket was reinstalled wrongly.

Closer look at the thumb-bar release gear and the wrongly installed orange bracket which holds the pinion gear in place.

This is how you should reinstall the thumb-bar release gear.

How it should be.

This is how the bracket should be installed.

Closer look at the correct way to install the orange bracket

 Cast control knob bearings. Remember to oil this when you reassemble your reel.

Clickies

What makes it click

The final part of the clicky.

Drag star click mechanism.

What makes it click.

Reinstalling the drag-star

You don't have to worry about fitting the click into the drag star before reinstalling the whole thing. Install the click mechanism first, then only install the drag-star. If it gets stuck, just keep trying.

Queen of the Night

I just love the details they put in this reel.

Spools and brakes

 Clockwise from top left - PX68 spool, Zonda68 Spool, LTX Spool, LTX magnetic brakes, PX68 magnetic brakes.

 

Daiwa PX68 MagforceZ

Megabass Zonda68 MagforceZ

Tools of trade

One of the better buys. Opens split rings quite effortlessly.

*CNC machined from aluminium alloy.
*Excellent anti-rust even used in saltwater.
*Replaceable stainless split ring jaws coated by Titanium.
*Strong replaceable tungsten carbide cutters,cuts braided/PE lines and mono filament lines effortlessly. 
*3 ways system pliers holder.
*Lanyard.

http://kahara-japan.com/products/fishing_tool/aluminumpliers.html

Kahara Aluminium Pliers

Opening a small split-ring on a 60mm lure.

What wet dreams are made of..

Megabass Zonda Hedgehog Custom

Comes with two spools, original deep spool and Hedgehog Studio's super shallow spool.