Captain PartyMarty
Crew Member
Coast reels! Best reel by far. Didn’t even touch my other reels all season.
If I don't want to pay the price for an Islander..... what would you buy?
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jim morrow
Active Member
Is that the 782 model from back in the 80's?
Pippen
Well-Known Member
I had Trophy's and swapped out the springs for Islander springs and it made a huge difference. I'm saying that I do love my TMX5's.
Chinookslayer
Member
I've had my trophy mootching reel for 5 plus years along with my MR3. The Trophy has been great.
Marley
Well-Known Member
I have been running trophy reels for the past two years. I like them but I am not overly happy with the drag adjustments. They either seem to be on or off kind of hard to fine tune. I know other people have gone with an islander spring and maybe this makes a difference, I am going to order some and try. The trophy reel I have also is a cork drag, not sure if a carbon drag is better? I have always wondered what the difference between carbon and cork drag is and why one would be preferred over the other.
ship happens
Crew Member
My TMX5s have been pretty much trouble free for around 9 or ten years now. Until this year. Haveing issues with them now. Might be rebuiladble. Not sure yet. Can't say enough good things about them really. They don't get washed on the regular and get beat up 12 months a year almost. I wish they were about an inch bigger in diameter. I was looking into the coast reels because of that. I think they are just a bit larger than the TMX5s and the islanders.
I have had Amundson Therons for years. Bought a pair when they came out. Used hard and only issues has been reel handles being a little stiff at the start of each year. A bit of reel oil and usage and they quit speaking. Love the handles. Never slippery. I prefer them over my Islander MR 2’s.
Fisher_dude
Crew Member
I’ve had trophy’s, rapalas, Luhr Jensen, Diawa, shimano, sage and islanders. They all have their place depending on what you do. For strictly downrigging, you can’t beat Islander. I went through 4 reels from rapala/Luhr Jensen and they all failed my stress test. Sold em all and bought islander tr3s. Zero issues.
Wondermur
Crew Member
I do it myself so I guess I’m good local service
But I did drop in at their industrial space in Delta?? Or somewhere like that a few years back and they checked them out while I was there and said all good and gave me some drag springs etc.
Did you try cleaning and oiling the centre shaft including the thread like I suggested a while back?
RiverBoy
Well-Known Member
yep. it works, just the drag is touchy. pretty much all i do is jig now so my islanders and tmx collect dust anyways. we trolled for hours yesterday with not a sniff then i stopped and jigged and picked up two springs and two coho in 20 minutes. it’s just more effectiveI do it myself so I guess I’m good local service
But I did drop in at their industrial space in Delta?? Or somewhere like that a few years back and they checked them out while I was there and said all good and gave me some drag springs etc.
Did you try cleaning and oiling the centre shaft including the thread like I suggested a while back?
