Jimmy Easterling
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I went back the other day to see a post you had helped me with some time ago and.....I bought a Revo Winch about a year ago and became so agravated with it that it has been sitting in the bottom of my rod locker paired up with my least favorite rod for almost a year without being used. I decided the other day I was going to use it or get fid of it. Original problem: it would not cast but maybe 30 yards and the brake system would stop it and set it nice and pretty onto the water, trouble is I wanted to cast it farther. The post I looked up said "in is off and out is on". I sitting on the lake at 2pm-100+ degrees and I drag out my screw driver, break down the reel to expose the brake system and push them all in. While still in a sitting position I sling it out, without my thumb on the spool, and spend the next 20 minutes or so getting the back lash out, in 100+ temps. when I finally get it worked out I case again, standing and thumb in the correct place, and could have cast it accross the lake. Long story long, I engaged 1 tab and left the others in and it and the rod, remember my least favorite, is now a joy to throw. In fact, I caught my first fish with either a short time later. Which is another interesting story, which I will make short, dragging a jig over some rocks and I set the hook on a fish, when it gets close to the boat I see there are 3 nice bass coming to the boat, on my left is what looks to be a 5 lb'er, in the middle a 2, and on the right a 3.5 or 4. Bet you can guess which one I had, yup, the 2. Anyway thanks, Glenn, for your expert knowledge of reels and most everything else that has to do with fishing.