What's your choice of reel

[Adam Wylie]

SHIMANO 6000oc, 4000oc,6000D, 4000 D.XTRB 6000,8000,10,000 ???
DAIWA GS BR 5000,4000,EMBLEM 5500 ??

Which would you choose ??

 

[Mark Pevy]

SHIMANO 6000oc, 4000oc,6000D, 4000 D.XTRB 6000,8000,10,000 ???
DAIWA GS BR 5000,4000,EMBLEM 5500 ??

Which would you choose ??

Id go for the 4000d's,oh hang on i bought some off you the other week

 

[Mike Thompson]

Love my 4000 OC's. I fish small to medium rivers, using 11' rods, so usually just an underarm cast.
Perhaps 6000's would be better for places like the Trent or Severn.

 

[Anthony James]

Daiwa SS2600/1600 for the past 3 years.

 

[Cliff Turner]

Daiwa Emblems on my carp rods, Shimano Stradics in all sizes for most else with 6000 X-Aeros for the heavy river work.

 

[Ian Timms]

2 x Rapidex. Have used them for 40 years and they’ve never let me down

 

[David Craine]

Fixed spool… Shimano 3500baitrunner, or Okuma Longbow. Shimano aero 810 GT”s for Pike.

Centrepins.. Gypsy D’or , Rapidex, Free Spirit Searcher , Adcock Stanton, and Rolling
Pin.

Mostly “Old school “

David

 

[Paul Whiteing]

I'm with IanT, I have FC Match Aerials for all river fishing on small rivers, use the same setup for big rivers, use the same for floods

 

[Paul Richardson]

Barbel - on heavier rods / bigger rivers 6000oc which have superceded 6000/8000 GTEs
Glad I upgraded- amazing reels
Chub & lighter barbel - set ups, 3 seasons now with the Cadence CS10 4000 series - beautiful little reels and had plenty of use this season
Light as a feather and lovely to use with tip or float rods
Pike- distance rods are Penn 8000 Affinities / shimano bio masters and another Cadence big pit reel which so far is excellent but only light use to date
Pike river rods are 6000/8000 baitrunners bit of a mixture but all like old slippers - can’t see me every changin these as I don’t use the baitrunners or clutches but just so familiar with them

 

[Gerry Giles]

Shimano 8000 XTE with the Felindre drag washers fitted that transform a very good clutch to an amazing clutch

 

[Robert West]

Use ss2600 tdr3012 s2553 and for my carp fishing using emcast 5500 & emblem 45scw
Don’t tell the Misses

 

[Terry Harman]

daiwa ss1000 … 80,s version of the 2600 better built
also sometimes use daiwa gs 5000

don’t own any shimano,s last pair of shimano reels i owned were the aero 4000 and the line kept going under the spools actually had to handline a barbel in once

 

[Darren Roberts]

SHIMANO 6000oc, 4000oc,6000D, 4000 D.XTRB 6000,8000,10,000 ???
DAIWA GS BR 5000,4000,EMBLEM 5500 ??

Which would you choose ??

4000oc’s on 1.75lb for normal work/conditions
6000oc’s on 2.2lb for big flood/13ft 2.5’s Trent Flood

I’ve had Shimano oc reels since 2016 without issue.

 

[Tim Marks]

SHIMANO 6000oc, 4000oc,6000D, 4000 D.XTRB 6000,8000,10,000 ???
DAIWA GS BR 5000,4000,EMBLEM 5500 ??

Which would you choose ??

None of the above.

Old Shimano fighting drag reels (Super GT4000) up to 10 lb line; and even older Shimano match 3’s for trotting. I prefer the latter to modern Cadence and Daiwa equivalents.

New Okuma 6000 inc reels for heavy stuff. They are replacing a set of really, really old GT4000 Baitrunners. I might even flog 2x 5500 Ci4’s in favour of the Okumas….

 

[Steve Jones]

Shimano 4010 and 5010 for my barbel, chub and light carpin. 6010s for most of my carp fishing up about 80 yards. Embo 5500T for the stamp ya foot and gerrrr out there casting. No skool like old school peps

 

[Neil Smart]

XTEA, Stradics, 5010, 6010, but your question is what 'we' would want, is this you being generous, again?

 

[Bill Walford]

SHIMANO 6000oc, 4000oc,6000D, 4000 D.XTRB 6000,8000,10,000 ???
DAIWA GS BR 5000,4000,EMBLEM 5500 ??

Which would you choose ??

Behave Adam

 

[Ben Jennings]

Okuma pulzar 4000. Had most shimano and daiwa reels going i’m a reel tart. Those little Okuma reels for £40 each are just as good as any of the much more expensive daiwas and shimano i own. Have just brought some more for my scopes.

 

[Neil Smart]

Okuma pulzar 4000. Had most shimano and daiwa reels going i’m a reel tart. Those little Okuma reels for £40 each are just as good as any of the much more expensive daiwas and shimano i own. Have just brought some more for my scopes.

Agreed on the Pulzar, cracking good reel.

 

[Chris Cheshire]

4000d as a baitrunner and diawa ss750 for everything else.