New purchases for 2006
We’ve been field testing reels with more big-fish capability for the past decade. Five years ago, an Accurate 665 made it into our line-up. After all manners of abuse, that reel survived. Now, the Northern Lights has up to twenty of these and an ATD-6 two speed and hasn’t had a catastrophic failure! Two more ATD-6s are being shipped to complement. My ten year old, seventy five pound daughter reeled in a fish on one of these that could take a grown man using a conventional reel to his knees!
Trying to accomodate future programming, an Athlon processor is going under the dash to help the Centrino powered laptop. That’s a little like “helping” a Kia get down the quarter mile with a V-8 engine swap! Expect to see more monitors and fewer stand alone electronics in the future.
February 11th, 2006 at 11:02 am
Mark, wouldn’t an Avet reel do almost the same thing as an Accurate for half the money?
February 11th, 2006 at 11:57 am
Nice softball, Rog, but the forum is a better place for discussions and we won’t make reel manufacturers mad at us there. I will say this much - I was aware of everything out there when I made the initial $7,000 Accurate investment and I would go the same way again…