The embarrassing truth is that I have had it for six months and have never used it. But I knew that going in. I will be retiring in a couple of years and my wife and I will be building a house in Rockport. I decided to do all my tackle research now, and buy the good stuff so I don't have to when I retire on social security and sit out on State Highway 35 with a sign saying "Will work for terminal tackle." I bought it from one of the folks on the board here, through T.J. and it is pristine. Puts out 61 pounds drag at max setting, which is a little low for a 50W, but doesn't bother me one bit, since I am a tottering, frail, little old man.
I have no doubt I am going to love the reel. I only wish I had ponied up for the ATD 12 when it was available, but I had grown kind of fond of eating that month. Priorities are a b1tch, aren't they? I have been a bay fisherman all my life and have wandered offshore just enough to be dangerous. However, I have been learning so much from you folks on this board that I will never be able to repay the debt. Now to put the theory into practice.
Speaking of lawyers (and payback being another b1tch) what do you guys think about that trial lawyer (Personal Injury specialty, I understand, although that could be wrong,) who flew all over the known western world with drug-resistant tuberculosis. I can hear the cross-examination even as I type:
"Now is it or is it not true, Mr. XXXXX, that when you boarded the plane in Rome, you knew or had reason to know that you were infected with a rare and difficult to treat form of tuberculosis, and that, in fact, Sir, you had a duty to the passengers on that plane, and that you violated that duty by exposing them to the disease you carried?" (Now all you lawyers will point out that the existence vel non, of the duty, is a question of law and not of fact, but what the hell, you get the picture.) I just love Karma.
Russ
Russ