Printable View
putting together some stuff i found in an ammo can of my dads or uncles who knows any way got a 300 mitchell and some sl compact and the dame quick I dont figure i need the king rods do i still need to carry something for bull reds any way do you think those reels on some old rainbow trout rods would hold up on a winter fishing trip to the pier
Uh, spermwhale.
:poke1:
Define "rainbow trout rod"; there are a lot of variations in length and stiffness. The 300 would be sufficient for most of the smaller fish from the pier. Line capacity makes it difficult to work from a pier using "trout size" reels smaller than the 300.
the 300 has different spools, ive seen kings caught on mitchell 300 but i bought a couple of mitchell 300s and one had a fat spool as i call them and the other one one was skinny and the skinny one could definitely handle reds i caught some with it... if this helps i dont know
I've picked up a couple dam quick reels....the gearing is to slow for me, and not sure how good the drags are...always used Mitchell 300 up here back in the day....but have upgraded to newer model equipment....a friend still fishes with his 300 and does good....I like a little faster retrieve on my reels for some odd reason but the deep spool 300 will hold some line on it.
For redfish, if you need more line than the shallow spool 300 holds, you aren't going to do much better with a deep spool.