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Thinking of one of these at '1/2' price per recent Daiwa ad, to use in the creeks and maybe Monduran to fish 30lb braid reasonably hard over a much abused crystal powertip (hopefully less likely to explode in a cloud of high modulus graphite).
Anyone got one, comments good or bad? Worth paying more for a certate, or get something else?
Hi Rick
The Airity is a brilliant reel, I dont own one but have fished with them a fair bit due to the people I know. For the job you are talking about though I would hesitate to recommend the Airity. They are very strong and so could handle fishing the thirty pound braid for a while but a certate would handle the heavy drag settings better. The Airity is very lightweight and so is best used for lighter applications. A problem that you will also have is that you wont get much line on the spool either if you are using thirty pound braid. A 2500 is a very versitile reel but a touch on the small side for Bigger Barra. I use alot of Certates and would recommend the 3000 size as it has the advantage of a bit more line whilst still being compact. As far as price is concerned you could get a standard 3000 certate cheaper than an Airity ($520 approx for certate $590 approx Airity) although if you went to the 3500HD model then you would be up for a bit more but you get more drag pressure and a heavy duty machined handle. Cheers James
I recently called a tackle shop to find out the price of the "hapf price" Airity and was told abot $460 so not a bad price. It sounds like they are fine for the fresh but not so good for the salt. I ended up buying the Emeraldas that raef has for sale....
Geeezus - thats half price?? its not even the Tournament Airity, its about 5 years old and an export model at that, but none the less a good reel, but for the price its not worth it - Buy 2 daiwa Caldia Kix and get 4x more bang for your bucks
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