OK before I want to say I have fished with many many different types of reels. Furthermore, I have no problem in general with Bass Pro Shops products. I do like their fluorocarbon fishing line, some plastic baits and several other items. Now to the beef of this post. This reel was very very disappointing. I like Rick Clunn I believe he is one of the greatest fisherman ever, but this reel just did not perform at all. I received a new BPS Rick Clunn series super high speed reel for Christmas this year. I went on two very short fishing trips using the reel. The first trip lasted about an hour and I pitched a jig for the bulk of that hour with the reel. I did not even hook a fish with it. Second trip I went to a bigger lake and was casting some big body crankbaits. After about 30 mins of chunking and winding, the reel made this wild grinding noise when I casted and the spool did not spin properly causing a beautiful bird nest. After five mins of picking it out I casted again and came up with the same results. After 3 casts I gave up. Alright no biggie right, BPS has a one year warranty. I took the reel back and they exchanged with no fuss. I took the new reel out fished about 5 trips with this one maybe 15 hours of fishing time total on this reel. Same thing happened again. I don’t know what is the problem with these reels but I do know I will be returning this reel and getting a Shimano instead. I have had 49.99 Shimanos that held up way longer than these reels. Furthermore I don’t have the time to keep exchanging reels every other time I go fishing. I expect when I spend 99.99 on a reel I will get some good use out of it.

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