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View Poll Results: If I could do it all over again....I would
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05-24-2009, 08:53 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Framingham, MA, USA
Posts: 410
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I have the 6500 yellow, and the black 7500. Both have held up fine. I do not use them all the time. I have found that Shimano Stadics to be much smoother. I use the 7500 at the canal for jigging, it still works fine. I have been looking at the Diawa Emblem's Pro's for jigging:
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05-25-2009, 07:33 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: lunenburg, ma
Posts: 349
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I bought a 6500GV when they came out and liked it. I got ~4yrs out of it before it failed. Since then, I've picked up three more 6500's plus a 7500GV for reasonable money. If I can get 3-4yrs/zero maintenance out of the 6500's them I'm happy. The 7500 has caught big enough that if it was going to fail, it would have happened by now.
btw...went for the GV for the fast retrieve vs. the yellow version...
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05-25-2009, 12:12 PM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,287
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IIRC the yellow reels were far more reliable than the black...
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05-25-2009, 02:13 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: lunenburg, ma
Posts: 349
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JohnR,
I believe you to be correct. I don't recall ever hearing about a failure on the yellow/non-GV version of these reels.
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05-25-2009, 04:22 PM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
Posts: 8,158
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I saw a black 6500 fail on the second fish ever hooked, when it was brand new out of the box.
Even the yellow reels weren't all that durable if you put them to heavy use. I killed mine pretty quickly once I moved to the Cape and started jigging the Canal 5 nights a week.
Mac and Slip were around the night it crapped the bed for good, on a 43" fish. Somehow I landed the fish after 20 minutes of basically palming the spool because the drag went south.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
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05-26-2009, 02:21 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: People's Republic
Posts: 1,025
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My two still work fine. Just need to tighten the allen bolts under the yellow cover from time to time.
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05-27-2009, 09:02 PM
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Callinectes sapidus
Join Date: Oct 2001
Posts: 6,280
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To recap:
I did end up buying one,...it took over 4.5 years before mine failed.
I can't say I respected it enough with rinsing though, ....I'm happy I made the purchase.
thanks for the replys ~
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