The reel has a 4.1-inch diameter large-arbor spool, sealed carbon drag, and looked pretty damn good to my eye.
Rated at ~9-weight I thought it might be a bit light for what I envisaged would be a serious 10-weight outfit, but for a hundred bucks delivered I weakened and allowed the Scot in my ancestry to dictate the terms!
Well it certainly looks the part!
<click to enlarge> Just bombed it up with 300 yds of 30lb Bionic Braid backing and a used 10wt line given to me by a work colleague. It was a pretty tight fit (!) but I'm now ready for an exploratory cast or two during my next lunch-hour. The line is an intermediate sinker so I have decided to be a sook and employ a stripping basket, rather than feed my 'new' line to the oyster-rocks on day-one!
Now I really must learn to double-haul before the Northern Blues arrive in the harbour!
