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Title: Ready for Springers -reel repair
Post by: cohoho on March 09, 2010, 06:16:32 PM: Just finished replacing all drags with new carbon type washers in my Abu Garcia's reels. Wow- amazing what new drags washers can do for a previously smoked reel... Now, I am finally ready for springers, let the fun begin... Except for the next two weekends (kids hockey and Sturgeon trips for some employees).. Anybody else getting their gear tuned up and ready?? Tieing up leaders this week, replacing hooks and washing the lures, I think it's going to be good....
Title: Re: Ready for Springers -reel repair
Post by: MuleySniper on March 09, 2010, 06:21:01 PM: I can't wait! Hopefully Drano produces a few this year! :chuckle: I am definitely making time for springer fishing this year. This is the first year in about ten that I didn't make it up to the Peninsula for steely's :bash:
MS
Title: Re: Ready for Springers -reel repair
Post by: Huntbear on March 09, 2010, 06:32:56 PM: Quote from: MuleySniper on March 09, 2010, 06:21:01 PM
I can't wait! Hopefully Drano produces a few this year! :chuckle: I am definitely making time for springer fishing this year. This is the first year in about ten that I didn't make it up to the Peninsula for steely's :bash:
MS

Muley,

Let me know when you head this way. I live across from The Dalles. Drano is my favorite Springer hole. Would love to meet ya.
Title: Re: Ready for Springers -reel repair
Post by: MuleySniper on March 09, 2010, 06:42:43 PM: Quote from: Huntbear on March 09, 2010, 06:32:56 PM
Quote from: MuleySniper on March 09, 2010, 06:21:01 PM
I can't wait! Hopefully Drano produces a few this year! :chuckle: I am definitely making time for springer fishing this year. This is the first year in about ten that I didn't make it up to the Peninsula for steely's :bash:
MS

Muley,

Let me know when you head this way. I live across from The Dalles. Drano is my favorite Springer hole. Would love to meet ya.

Definitely! When things start heatin up down there, pops and I plan on towing the boat and the camp trailer and hittin it hard for a few days!
MS
Title: Re: Ready for Springers -reel repair
Post by: Huntbear on March 09, 2010, 06:51:50 PM: You, me and about 3,000 other guys :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Ready for Springers -reel repair
Post by: MuleySniper on March 09, 2010, 06:53:18 PM: Quote from: Huntbear on March 09, 2010, 06:51:50 PM
You, me and about 3,000 other guys :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:

Yeah, that hole is about the best example for combat fishing :chuckle:
Title: Re: Ready for Springers -reel repair
Post by: Huntbear on March 09, 2010, 07:13:05 PM: yea, ya better reel the salmon in quick... or someone may steal it with 80 lb. braid on their reel, lmao
Title: Re: Ready for Springers -reel repair
Post by: h2ofowlr on March 09, 2010, 08:30:02 PM: Drano starts banging mid may usually, so mark it on your calendar. Line the gunnel's with bumpers and jump in the troll line.
Title: Re: Ready for Springers -reel repair
Post by: cohoho on March 09, 2010, 09:13:40 PM: First time to Drano was couple weeks ago- launching to go after Sturgeon... I can't believe the size of that place with the numbers of people that I have been told go there.. Crazy it must be... :yike:
Title: Re: Ready for Springers -reel repair
Post by: h2ofowlr on March 09, 2010, 09:26:46 PM: It's cool. :bash: Lines of cars both sides of the road. It looks like a carousel of boats until one catch a fish and messes up the train. It a fun drive though especially when your amped and think your going to catch a fish until you pass Bonneville and see a solid wave of nets expanding from the shoreline your entire drive past the Wind River then to Drano. Then you realize you had to pay another $8.00 to help the endangered salmon. And then your told it's because of the dams. Don't mind them nets as they are for gorge scenery and money makers to help build a casino at Cascade Locks at some point. :bash: Don't head up to Drano on Wednesdays as I believe they close it to allow a net to be stretched under HWY 14. Anyways. Good luck on the fishing. :tup:
Title: Re: Ready for Springers -reel repair
Post by: MuleySniper on March 09, 2010, 09:57:13 PM: Never been there on a weekend nor when the nets are in. Typically slay the fish there. Always been good for us in April in the past.
MS
Title: Re: Ready for Springers -reel repair
Post by: Antlershed on March 13, 2010, 06:53:28 PM: Did you go with the smoothie drags? I need to replace some of mine soon too.
Title: Re: Ready for Springers -reel repair
Post by: fishcrazy on March 14, 2010, 05:01:27 AM: Quote from: Antlershed on March 13, 2010, 06:53:28 PM
Did you go with the smoothie drags? I need to replace some of mine soon too.

I have been told those are the way to go. I'm needing to replace drags in about 6 of my reels.

Kris
Title: Re: Ready for Springers -reel repair
Post by: Antlershed on March 14, 2010, 05:25:32 AM: Quote from: fishcrazy on March 14, 2010, 05:01:27 AM
Quote from: Antlershed on March 13, 2010, 06:53:28 PM
Did you go with the smoothie drags? I need to replace some of mine soon too.

I have been told those are the way to go. I'm needing to replace drags in about 6 of my reels.

Kris
That's what I've heard as well. I think I'm going to do all my abus and my two curados here pretty soon.
Title: Re: Ready for Springers -reel repair
Post by: BigGoonTuna on March 14, 2010, 10:17:16 AM: i've been meaning to order some sets of smoothie washers for a long time but i keep putting it off. a cheaper alternative for ABU reels is getting the stock washers from the newer reels which are a carbon fiber material. they swap right in to the older reels with the "slick" fiber washers(the kind that get jerky really quick). can't remember the part number off the top of my head, but they run around $6 a set.
Title: Re: Ready for Springers -reel repair
Post by: cohoho on March 16, 2010, 12:28:19 PM: Yea, I ordered them on line from a place in BC Canada, came in about three weeks.. Had to replace a couple other parts etc... For something like $20 bucks got three reels that were smoked back up and running. And one heck of alot cheaper than sending them in for $17 bucks each to be looked at, plus cost of parts.