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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 7:30 pm

garrickyuen

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I'm looking for a penn/shimano reel that's about 4000. Any other recommendations for brands of reel would be cool too!
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 7:33 pm

Sofa King

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Location: Danville Ca.

I got a Penn Fierce FRC8000 and a Penn Spinfisher 940.
Both have held up well crab snaring which is known to break reels.
I'm positive both would handle MONSTER fish as well.
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 7:53 pm

garrickyuen

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Sorry for not being specific enough, was looking for a reel for perching/stripers unless those work for the type of fishing I'm doing! I actually need a crabbing rod so any recommendations for that? At big 5 they sell 8'6" ugly stiks that's heavy power idk if that would work fine.
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 10:47 pm

Sofa King

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Location: Danville Ca.

8'6" is kinda short for surf crabbin.
It would be ok from a pier or maybe a jetty.
For the beach, use a 12'.
Sports Authority has some nice ones for less than $50.
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 5:20 pm

halibutsnatcher

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Location: Traptos

Get a penn sargus i just got one its been working pretty well
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 7:58 pm

garrickyuen

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Already have that one lol. Sorry forgot to tell you guys that too. I was looking into the battle but idk yet. My clarus broke today cause I used it for rockfishing at HMB... pretty sad now. Any of you guys know if I can send it in for the warranty since it hasn't been a year yet? I don't have the receipt from Hi's Tackle Box though so I'm not sure what I should do.
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Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 8:17 am

thefrood

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Location: Southern California (Riverside County)

I think the heavy weight ugly stick would be a little overkill for perch... would you even notice if you had a bite?

Don't know about for striper... never fished for them so don't know how hard to detect bite from them...
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Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 2:20 pm

pinfish

Posts: 2163
Location: Vallejo

saros or stradic by shimano for surf casting lures to stripers
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