long distance.

[trevour]

There is nothing worse than throwing an overwind, spending ten minutes fixated trying to sort it out, then retrieve and find you've snagged, and you end up losing trace and leader. It can be twenty minutes before you're ready with your next awesome looking bait, only to throw another overwind and repeat the whole miserable process. That describes the reason I bought an ultegra.

Then I magged a torium 20 (internal). No overwinds in a two week trip. I'm sure many agree that fighting a fish with a multiplier is nicer than a grinder. It also allows you to work on your casting action without consequences, to the extent that I am now confident to loosen up on the mags a bit. Mags have definately put new life into my fishing experience. Knobby vs internal - As someone trying to fight overwinds rather than achieve distance, I'm an internal mag fan.

 

[grootvis]

I have been blessed with a trained thumb only because I was fishing multipliers my whole life..But. ....

I was never interested in magging my reels. But as Cuban brought about his static mag kits it started interesting me and I followed the threads and asked alot of questions as to do I want to mag all my Trini A reels. As I got useful info, I realised Cuban Cigars Mag-it "mission statement" if you want to call it that was to make casting easier, controllable and distance being the cherry on the cake. He can correct me on that. Some things I have learnt and how the internal magging will benefit me:

1. It has allowed me to fill my Trini A with braid and can get more line on my reel, and be able to cast it effortlessly without worry. No need for grinders anymore.

2. Over winds will be a complete minimum, as the folk who enjoy spinning for game fish from the shore can attest, it's the most frustrating thing when a fish follows you close up and when you want to make a short throw, you end up with a over wind, it's not the easiest thing making a short, pinpoint cast. Or, if the fish are close and guys are pulling and you sitting sorting an over wind. These things will be dramatically reduced.

3. Again, some of the best fishing is to be had in the gale winds, over winds and burnt thumbs will be reduced.in my limited knowledge, a magged reel will not give you that much distance gain In a head wind, like many folk think it is designed for, but it will prevent the inevitable over wind.

4. Magging my reels will allow me to get the full potential from my reel, use the best oils, greases and generally save on bearings and shims.

In my nutshell, effortless casting, better distance (which is just a bonus feature)and if I do have the need to make a fine adjustment, which won't be often, I can still use my cast control function on the reel.

I still believe knobby mags are for distance casters with more maintenance added and having to drill into the reel side plate. I wouldn't mentally be comfortable with that, not the end of the world but I wouldn't like it.

I believe the Mag it or static mags offer better value and easier casting. Pair that with a good lay out rod and you have a 99% full potential set up.
My 2c. .....

 

[Psy]

Spot on grootevis.

I too was of opinion 'i dont need it' ...until I tried it.

Like many of us we learnt to cast/fish on old heavy penn 49'ers.
Monofilament thickness was mostly overkill and overly thick and heavy rods, contributed to many an unbalanced set-up.

Modern technology has sweetened the pallet somewhat and given us the best of both worlds.

We have the best monofilament lines, or braid's to fill our reels spools, they are superbly constructed with aircraft class materials.

Magged reels are allowing us to cast in the dark of night without overwinding.

Your magged reel is saving you time and money, your monofilament or braid is not being subjected to overwind's and knots (which burn your line) even though you pick it out (if you have to) you may not see the damage immediately...but it occurs!

Those are just a few points to consider.