Reality Check

[MuskieBait]

Question is...do you want to have that "could have" in the back of your mind when you need to depend on the gear?

Didn't you get a fish get you into a snag on that Powerleader 600?

The Powerleader 600 caught you fish, but they were fish you can handle on a 3000 size spinning reel of decent construction. Most of the fish that were landed on the reel were under 3lbs...and none of them were bigger jacks, bigger grouper, bigger snapper or sharks.

Sedona is a decent reel. You are right. You can get good condition used gear for a fraction of the cost. My Shimano Baitrunner and the Daiwa Saltist Levelwind are both bought used. They are not the latest model...but they are not exactly old gear either. I wouldn't call any gear under 5 years as old. But there are also a lot of previously owned new gear on the internet that you can get in new-in-box or excellent conditions. There are a lot of tackle hos out there who just buy gear for the sake of buying gear and never use them...and then they push them out after to make room of newer gear...silly people...

I would like to eliminate as much of the "potentially" out of the equation as possible. You may only ever hook up one tarpon...and you don't want your gear to fail in that case. I will pay a lot not to relive those moments when your gear fails and you lose the fish of a lifetime. Been there, done that...there are a lot of fish that still haunts me.

And imagine you eventually hooked a snakehead on that braid of yours? You knew how that went...luckily you found out the issue before you hooked a snakehead. I can only imagine the disappointment that follows...