I have heard multiple views on gear ratios. I am looking at getting a new rig this season and I have 2 particular reels in mind. One has a 6.3:1 ratio while the other has 5.9:1 My current reel is a cheap abu Garcia ambassadeur with a 5.1:1 and it seems rather difficult to really burn some of these ginormous buck tails in. I have heard that the higher gear ratios, while the ARE faster…. they lack torque for the big tandem tens and higher.
Any insight is greatly appreciated as always!
Depending on what size ambassador you have they make a power handle that you can put on it. Between that & filling your spool with as much line as possible it will help burning bucktails with a lower gear ratio. If you do go with a higher gear reel I would recommend a power handle on that as well to help with fatigue of long hours casting.
Yup the gear ratio is actually inversely proportional to torque/power, so what matters most for crankin speed+power is the actual gear size and spool size. This is what you have to increase to offset the reduced torque of high gear ratio. So, basically to get a rough idea of how much torque a reel has you could look in this order 1) reel weight 2) line retrieval rate 3) gear ratio
For example suffice it to say a Shimano Tranx has much more than +5% torque than an Ambassaduer C4, even though the Tranx gear ratio is only 6.6 vs 6.3:1.
"ERJake" said:
Depending on what size ambassador you have they make a power handle that you can put on it. Between that & filling your spool with as much line as possible it will help burning bucktails with a lower gear ratio. If you do go with a higher gear reel I would recommend a power handle on that as well to help with fatigue of long hours casting.
I have heard about loading the spool up with as much as possible to help with itbut have also heard it increases the amount of backlashes?
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