SARAGOSA REELS for jigging

[paul708]

it sounds like there have been a few drag issues with these reels
shimano has addressed the issue, and claims there are a few reels that got out, but a small limited amount
they are fixing the problem.
these seem like a good mid price reel,
any one have drag problems?? (yeah, yeah i knowthe hot girl friday posts)

[Capt_John]

I haven't had any problems yet. I loaned mine to a friend who's catching big groupers in 800 feet of water with it without any problems.

[Sea Draggin]

Maybe Joey will chime in here? He has both the cabo and sargusa. If I not mistaken he likes the cabo better, but we destroyed it on the first trip.

Is is me or do most of the spinners jump in price from under $200 to over $600?

[paul708]

Maybe Joey will chime in here? He has both the cabo and sargusa. If I not mistaken he likes the cabo better, but we destroyed it on the first trip.

Is is me or do most of the spinners jump in price from under $200 to over $600?

i think the saragosa are about 300
the finorOS are a little over 100

which cabo got trashed?

[Joey Herring]

I really liked the drag on the cabo 80 better. It seemed to be much smoother than the Sargoosa. Yes I did destroy the cabo..broke the anti-reverse on it the first trip out and the handle the second trip out. I am now looking to upgrade the drag washers in the Sargoosa. The Sargoosa seems to be well built reel tho..it holds 550 yards of PE8.

[paul708]

what kind of drag does the cabo 80 put out?

what happened to the handle

[Joey Herring]

the cabo can put down 40 lbs..and is smoooooth!

[Anders]

what about the sustain 8000 ?

[paul708]

what about the sustain 8000 ?

not sure if the reel has enough line cap.. or drag for bigger fish

[Jiggin Junkie]

what about the sustain 8000 ?

The Sustain only puts out about 29lbs of drag.

http://fish.shimano.com/publish/cont...ustain_FE.html