“Once you’re over 20 ounces a reel, it gets to be a bit much,” Benny Ortiz says. “Over 25 ounces, and it is too much.” He cites a time not so long ago when jig anglers had to rely on reels weighing 30 to 40 ounces (which in case your math isn’t so good, means a couple of pounds or more). Now, he says, he can jig 800 feet of water with a tiny lever drag weighing about 15 ounces. But Ortiz does caution against “sacrificing strength for light weight,” which in part is where the quality of the reel comes into play. If you intend to use a rig for dropping into really deep water, you’ll want to go conventional because many hold far more line for their size than spinners.Ĭlearly how much available drag a jig angler needs has much to do with his quarry. For smaller fish, most good reels of any type are likely to suffice. But for bigger game, 25 to 50 or more pounds of maximum drag will help win battles. (In speed jigging, the angler relies heavily on the rod to tire the fish.) Chua says drag is particularly important with slow-pitch jigging because when hooked up, the reel tends to do most of the work. Performance differences between the two types of reels aside, cost can be a factor, Wong says: “It’s a fact that a premium spinning reel will cost more than a premium twin-drag conventional.” You want a jigging reel to be machined with tight tolerances: “no back play or handle slop,” as Ortiz puts it.
The text of this is a copy from my post on, so noone should be asthonished, if you know him already.He also says he prefers a taller, narrow-spool reel because it gives you a more consistent rate of retrieve. Thank you very much for the kokelar handle for my alutecnos gorilla, alan, that you send to Aachen. The good thing is, that here in europe the price of the osl is 269€ whereas pe4 ist priced at 489€.Īnd even the bearings seems to be from the same manufacturer Is there a connection too between JM, maxel and studio ocean mark? Here the main difference seems to be, that blue heaven is using a double anti reverse ball bearing instead of the combination of double dog and one anti reverse bearing. Is the JM a common development of JM and maxel? Who knows the whole story?Īnother fact is that the JM internally looks very near to the blue heaven L120 (google for the review from Alan Tani), which was first buildt in 2006, so far as I know. The pictures are from 2009, the time JM goes with it's reels to US market and show some prototypes (on another reel there is written "jigging master tested"). On the 5th picture you can see on the left side a reel on that is written "maxel". But then someone detects the picture on sportfisherman forum: The only important difference is that the lever of the crank is 80mm vs 90mm for pe4.īecause JM is well known, but maxel (a joint venture of chinese and american people, located at Hongkong) is not, the majority suppose that the maxel is the clone and JM is the original.īut there are doubts, because maxel produces reels since 2003 and JM since 2009 and there are reels from 2007, that looks a bit like the JM's.
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Even the linearity of drag pressure from free to full is the same. I measure a drag capability of 45lbs with only a minor binding effect. Both reels have the same dual drag and the combination of a double dog and anti reverse ball bearing. The osl has the same dimensions as the pe4, this is true even for the bearings, gears and the spool shaft. I'm in the same german forum as miwidomi and I have had the opportunity to compare a osl06d and a pe6.īeside the fact, that the pe6 is the bigger reel (a correct comparision would be between the osl06d and pe4) the reels are more or less equal.
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