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03-15-2005, 08:45 PM
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Location: RI
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I'm on the fence about VS. I used an older 250 last season that I picked up at a good price on several rods. I need another reel so I've got a backup and so I don't have to swap out so much.
Mulling through the options, nothing seems as good. I like the VS but don't want to spend the dough for another, nor do I want multiple reels that I can't service.
So instead of a VS250/200, what reel should I get for my 1204? Probably braid, and won't be dunked as much as I do the VS.
-spence
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03-15-2005, 08:51 PM
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Location: Libtardia
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Oh great another VS thread  |
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03-15-2005, 09:11 PM
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Keep The Change
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Road to Serfdom
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Is weewee trying to scare other VS owners into selling him their reels cheap???
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“It’s not up to the courts to invent new minorities that get special protections,” Antonin Scalia
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03-15-2005, 09:59 PM
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I'll be honest with you guys...
I do enjoy fishing with VS reels, whether conditions require them or not.
I haven't had one problem with any that I have owned personally.
(I did have a beef with a set of VS pliers a while back, I got so pissed off that I destroyed them with a rifle on the 100 yard firing line, but I digress).
Let's forget about the merits and disadvantages of how others think the VS reels perform.
Just from an ownership perspective, what I've found is that it's a pain in the arse to have to send in multiple reels for servicing every year... so... I am down to just one VS. It's an old style (factory retrofitted) black 250. It's the perfect size for most of the immersive fishing I do in Rhody, Long Island, and Mass (and yes, there are certain places in the OBX I would fish it). There really is no substitute (I haven't checked out the Saltigas yet, they don't make a size that exactly corresponds to a VS 250).
I can justify owning one and sending ONE in every year. Not 2,3, or 4.
My backups are modified manual Penn 704z and a 706.
Am I every going to plunk down $800 for a Saltiga?
I doubt it. I'm getting really picky about what I'm spending my money on nowadays.
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03-16-2005, 09:43 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Uh, in a spot....
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Ben, buy a boat. If I lived where you lived I would. Can you say Fisher's Island, The Race, Valiant Rock etc., etc., etc.  You can come up here and surfish with me anytime anyway.  |
Why even try......... 
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03-16-2005, 09:57 AM
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I might just do that Steve, when I turn into a crusty old fart. 
p.s. Owning a couple of VS's is definitely cheaper than owning a boat.  |
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