fishingfool485 Posted August 4, 2023 Report Share Posted August 4, 2023 So I was wondering if maybe someone has experienced this issue. My son and I were fishing yesterday. We were in an incredible bite. My son hooks into a moose of a Tarpon. Of course it’s on the smallest rod on the boat. We’ll long story short this 100 plus lber jumps 3x runs long and breaks off. Come to find out the line broke because the drag knob tightened up. It tightened up so much that I can’t get the *** thing off. I’m sure those runs must of heated something up. Has anyone else experienced this? Any suggestions how to get that drag knob off? Thanks y’all 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief5130 Posted August 4, 2023 Report Share Posted August 4, 2023 Well if nothing else this is going to be a great story over the years. I have as many memories, maybe more, about the one that got away as I do the one that I have landed. I have not experienced anything like that, but I have been moving away from Shimano reels. Over the years I have found that the quality has slipped. I have 2 CI4 that are on the shelf for a variety of annoying issues. Some Stratics that the handles turned to goo. I have been using Diawa BGMQ and quite happy so far. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishingfool485 Posted August 4, 2023 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2023 2 minutes ago, Chief5130 said: Well if nothing else this is going to be a great story over the years. I have as many memories, maybe more, about the one that got away as I do the one that I have landed. I have not experienced anything like that, but I have been moving away from Shimano reels. Over the years I have found that the quality has slipped. I have 2 CI4 that are on the shelf for a variety of annoying issues. Some Stratics that the handles turned to goo. I have been using Diawa BGMQ and quite happy so far. Definitely great memories. My son is off to College to play ball and this was our last trip before he takes off. 👍 I have so many Shimano’s and this was really the first major issue I’ve experienced. I’ll phase them out as they go. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FINCHASER Posted August 4, 2023 Report Share Posted August 4, 2023 Uhhhhh.... I really dont think we can blame reel quality here. That reel was grossly under sized for that class of fish and there would have been no winner, either you play the fish till its eventual death from over exhaustion or the reel breaks and I dont think there was much chance on landing it. Should have just palmed the spool and broke it off as soon as the realization was made you were out gunned 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Seither Posted August 4, 2023 Report Share Posted August 4, 2023 I’d say the drag got just a touch hot! It happens I’ve had a couple turn to gearless paperweights, good fish he was able to fight for a couple of runs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishingfool485 Posted August 5, 2023 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2023 Definitely. It was worth it though to see the excitement in my son. I had to pry off the drag knob and luckily was able to find some parts. I’ll try to put it back together and see if it properly works. If not it goes in the trophy case as a memory 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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