Diawa Tatula

[176champion]

Just bought a Diawa Tatula 100 6.3:1 gear ratio these any good?

[fishinwrench]

As long as you don't let them get dirty, slimey, or wet, they seem to perform ok.  

[Quillback]

Haven't had any problems with mine.

[moturkey]

I use one on my crankbait rig and like it. 

[176champion]

That's what im putting it on is a crankbait rod, it was either the Diawa or a ABU Garcia revo3s.. My orra winch went to sounding like a coffee grinder...lol

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

im slowly getting rid of my Lews for Tatulas.  I love mine

[176champion]

I have 2 Lew's reels 1of them not to fond of the other seems to be better, it's the IFS speed spool that i like.

[Smalliebigs]

The Diawa Tatula with the SV spool are BADASS and the Zillion with the SV spool are too. The other Diawa's I have no opinion on as I have none but, the SV spool is killer I don't care what anybody says.

[slothman]

11 hours ago, Smalliebigs said:

The Diawa Tatula with the SV spool are BADASS and the Zillion with the SV spool are too. The other Diawa's I have no opinion on as I have none but, the SV spool is killer I don't care what anybody says.

What is the difference? I haven’t ever used the tatula, but I keep hearing about how it is the “best reel for skipping jigs”. What makes it so much better? Is it somehow resistant to backlashing?

[moturkey]

I don’t skip jigs with mine, but I can cast cranks dead into a stiff breeze on 12lb copoly with no fear of backlash from my tatula. I use one of the Lews speed spools (don’t recall which one) on my jig setup, and get far more backlash there with 80lb braid than the tatula. Plus, the levelwind assembly on my Lews often gets stuck, which stacks my line on one end of the spool. I’m strongly considering swapping out the Lews for another tatula on my jig rig.