[Slipknot]

I have many fish over 30 lbs on mine including 2 35 lbders. And this is in 5 knot current of the canal with 10-11 lbs of drag pressure, if anyone has trouble with gears stripping then you are winching the reel too much and not pumping the rod enough and winding down. I have had my troubles with the bail snapping shut on occasion but have solved that trouble a bit by rotating the bail up against the stop before I cast so it doesn't gain any momentum as I cast so not to trip the bail. I don't have any trouble with the drag or water entering the reel. The warranty is fine with me for 2 years for the amount of punishment I give the reel and for what I pay for it. The reel hasn't cost me one fish because of any lack of performance, NOT ONE. At $120 a reel divided by 2 years = $60 per year. So if I get 2-3 seasons out of one purchase, that equates to about 40-60 bucks per season and isn't that almost as much as the maintenence on a VS.

So what do you think my opinion of Bob's article is? The article in very one sided and it is not an accurate reflection of the reel, especially since it wasn't made for us to buy it and just place it in a bucket of water and then taken apart and examined It was meant to be fished with and used to catch fish.

I don't see anyone doing that to a Shimano Baitrunner, and they supposedly have a waterproof drag also.

Are there better reels out there? Sure there are, but to blatently knock everything about the Nautil as an engineer is rediculous. He's just stirring up crap with those words on a page, and who gives a crap about the pictures with some beads of water on reel parts?