...Yeah, we do too.
*Sigh*
We have been lookin' to round out the twig selection, and finally settled on the Winston BII-x 7133 - super sweet action, light in the hand, all a fella needs for long-bellies to super shorties. We figured we had the reel all picked out for this one, too - sealed drag, no click, bombproof, idiot-proof...all the things that we dig in a reel.
But after we got to fondle the Silveynator's super-sweet BII-x 7133/Bougle setup, we decided that if we were gonna pull the trigger on a new twig, might as well go whole hog and get us one of those loud reels to make the package complete. We got all kinds of excuses for this irrational behavior...it balances the 7133 perfectly, the ivory handle feels good, it sits tight underneath the rod, blah blah blah...but it came down to pure aesthetics on this one.
This one was just too sexy to pass up.
For the moment, it is our new baby. We gotta admit, when the line gets rippin' off this thing, it is kinda like someone else's baby - as in, a loud caterwauling that you wish would stop. Still, we are happy with our new acquisition. Yes, it IS a bit on the traditional side, and given our stance on tradition this might seem a little hypocritical. But you can't move forward until you know the past, so we're filing this one under "research purposes".
85 days 'til we get to put it to the test.
