Reply With QuoteNice. The reel does look good. Nice to be able to make things work for you.
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I put together a 500 size Shimano reels using what I thought was the best of both and I think it turned out great !
I used the body from my Shimano Soare BB 500spg which weighs 5.4oz and has a gear ratio of 4.7/1 . 4/1 bearing count . The Soare BB had a shallow spool that would only hold about 75 yards of line at best .
I swapped the spool and handle with a Shimano Nasci 500 that weighs 6.0 oz and has a gear ratio 5.6/1 and a 4/1 bearing count , but I added a bearing to the handle.
What I got was a 500 size reel that weighs 5.4oz , holds about 190 yards of 2# line , and has a longer tuned handle . The bearing count went to 5/1 .
This reel is as smooth as my Soare XR .
The drag isn’t super loud , but it’s super smooth, I can live with that .
I filled it with 2# Floroclear and paired it up with a 6’3” Abu Garcia MB3 light rod .
A beautiful morning, sunny , a little breezy , mid sixties .
I used the same handtied black streamer jig with a 4mm Tungsten bead the entire two hours .
It was a green fish day and I caught eleven and had two get off .
I also caught two shellcrackers and a couple of nice bluegills .
I really like this reel configuration, it has everything I wanted in a 500 size reel .
I think it looks pretty good too!
“ The bigger the Bend , the Wider the Grin ! “
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Nice. The reel does look good. Nice to be able to make things work for you.
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thanks for the update, I really like the 500 series of reels and it's good to hear your drag works good/smooth, line capacity for most of my use would not be an issue, sound like it was a great day
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Very nice o Bo and catches. Thanks for sharing
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Nice job configuring that reel to your liking. I would have been happy with the original capacity for the way I fish. But it is good to know you can sometimes mix and match parts to get what you want.
Nice catches too.
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Ninety five percent of the time, the original capacity would do for me also .Originally Posted by UpstateSC_Bill
But , when I fish the big reservoir, sometimes I have something BIG take my tiny jigs and want to run off with it .
Last year it was a hybrid, of at least five pounds . If I’d been fishing with this reel with its original capacity, it would have spooled me .
We catch spotted bass in the 3-4# range occasionally and they can give you a good run .
I’ve kept the spool . I put it on the Nasci I robbed . Handle too .
“ The bigger the Bend , the Wider the Grin ! “
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Good on ya gettin what ya needed. Some nice fish too. We just got 4 days of rain while I was gone and the river is way back up so that’s out for much of anything except trolling, and I can’t wait for it to go back down.
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Nice upgrade and report. As skeet said, it sounds like you got what you wanted!
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