Shark reels

[pwake7]

Are the tld's any good for chunking for shark? 25's to small or is the whole series to light?

[Big Jay]

By NO MEANS is the TLD25 too light. It shows 17 lbs. of drag at strike with Max drag. You can get 800 or so yards of 80# braid on her too. Not a bad reel at all.

Light too.

[pwake7]

Is there a setup that i can use to catch shark and then use it for tuna and dolphin later in the year. Im talking about line.

[On The Edge]

Hollow spectra with a mono topshot for tuna. When you go sharking just remove the mono topshot and replace it with the shark leader/windon of your choice.. when you go back to tuna remove your shark leader/windon and put the mono topshot back on..

[Flatdog]

Tigara 30 wide 80lb spectra 250lb windon then trace

[lilharcher]

For the price and sheer toughness, there is no better real than an Avet 30 topeless......will handle large sharks and tuna up to 300lbs.....

[Captain Fred Archer]

IMO it very much depends on how you go about your shark fishing. For example, if you are trolling (THE best way to catch thresher sharks), I wouldn't run anything less than a quality 50W with 80# Dacron backing and a fairly short, 80# topshot and a 130# mono-to-wire leader to the lure. The heavy gear is because threshers not only fight like hell, they get HUGE and you don't - or at least I don't - want to hook them up on light gear. We also release the majority of the threshers that we catch and you want heavy enough gear to C&R them in good enough shape to survive.

If you are a traditional drift shark chummer, once again the responsible and intelligent tackle choice should be heavy, and for the same reason...blind chumming with hooks in your baits means that you have no control over what size sharks you hook, and that means you should be prepared for a big thresher or mako.

If you Power Chum, like we do, you see every fish that you tease up (and sharks tease like champs...they are more aggressive when after a live or dead teaser than any other fish in the oceans), you size him up, and you pitch a baited hook to him. So, you never get caught hooking a monster on a Cinderella outfit (that would be like showing up for a tank battle in a shopping cart with a BB gun mounted on it!) and you don't beat the crap out of smaller fish on big gear that would be a ball to catch on lighter tackle. Works great for us. And if you don't want to catch blue sharks or dogfish, this is the answer.

Here are our lighter tackle and big gun arsenals from the book, The New Shark Chummer's Bible. I actually had a big hand in designing the TLD's and I even named them, and they are very good reels up to 50# line, but I no longer recommend offshore reels of any kind to Americans, for what should be obvious reasons, considering what is happening within our economy.

Here are good teaser reels, some lighter gear pitch bait reels, and an Accurate 70-2, an excellent big fish pitch bait reel.

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