Picked one up at Bob's for the smokin' hot deal of $100. Gonna baptize it on the Kenai in a few weeks.

Standard speed at 5.4:1, left hand retrieve

Spooled it up half way with 30 IGFA dacron and spliced that to 50# red Power Pro. Still seemed like an eternity to fill it to capacity. Hooked it onto the boat, across my front circle, and on up the driveway.... all the way across the main street and 25 yds into the opposite driveway before I hit the splice. OH MY.... does this thing hold a TON of line!

Drag is super smooth... even when you crank it down hard. Never did max out the supposed 20-plus pounds of drag as I would NEVER need more than 5 pounds of preset drag for a real fishing situation. Any more than that would come close to exploding most every salmon stick I own except perhaps my broomstick Lami Kenai Kings.

Standard 5.4:1 retrieve picks up a respectable 24.5" of line in one crank at the top of the spool, comparable to the 24" of pickup with one crank on my Calcutta TE 400. Not bad a for a low profile reel, but a tad slower than the 27" on my hi-speed Curado 300DSV with 6.2:1 retrieve. The TORO hi-speed model at 6.4:1 retrieve would be expected to pick up about 29" per crank.

Probably could have used that extra advantage for my retarded left hand, but for $100, I'm not going to complain. Guess I'm just gonna have sit in the plane scrambling eggs wrong-handed til the muscle memory sets in.

Gonna pair this reel up with a Loomis GL3 BBR 965. Can't wait for that first hookup.