Pflueger Supreme Spinning Reel

[Quillback]

I see a Summit XT on sale for $49 at Cabelas.  Never have fished a Summit.

If they had the Supreme XT on sale for $49 I'd be all over it.  

[curtisce]

My bad I just glanced through it this am.

[Smalliebigs]

8 hours ago, Gumboot said:

Which issue, broken bail or binding?

binding......binding.....binding....but I have a ton of Shimano Stradics do it as well.

[Jim Elam]

Own the older Presidents, Supremes, and the new President XT.  Only issue I have had is a Supreme that felt a little rough during a heavy rainstorm last spring,  Lasted a few minutes then self resolved.  Drags on all of these are okay, adequate for freshwater fish on light gear.  My oldest President is close to 10 years old and good as new despite serious abuse.  The President XT reels are okay, but don't seem as well built as my old wooden handle Presidents.

Own a few Summits I got on sale and have used as backups.  They have pretty thin bail wires, but are fairly smooth.  Drag is okay for a cheapie.  No data on how they hold up to abuse.

Owned a few daiwa Lexa 2500's.  Only reels that sucked so bad I actually destroyed in order to spare anyone else from the issues they had.  Never again...

Have owned Shimano with good luck, but pricey and rarely go on sale.  Never issues with reliability or build quality.  Never used Stradics though, always the lower end stuff <$100.

That said, I have switched over to Revos.  Mainly because the drag on the Premier, STX, and SX are pretty good.  Can usually find on sale.  They are well built and have had no issues through 2 seasons despite heavy use.

 

 

[timinmo]

Experience with Shimanos about the same as many people.  Never had a Plfueger can offer nothing other than alot of people love them.  Several Daiwas that have been bullet proof.  Newer LT series unknown as they haven't been around that long, have a BG that seems to handle anything and an older Ballistic, nonLT.  I would not mind trying a Plfueger, Berkley has owned them for several years now and I haven't seen many complaints.    

[Fishfighter]

Pflueger quality has went down big time in my opinion.  There seems to be no rhyme or reason why but I have 3 that have been and continue to be good, but I've got a drawer full of the rough, binding, piece of craps too. One was binding up brand new out of the box and they made me pay shipping back to the factory and never reimbursed! Pitiful.  Different models but all newer. One things for sure, if one binds and you are able to get it freed up and smooth again, it will ALWAYS bind again later. Could be later that day, could be a year.  But it will happen.

I always say I'm done buying pflueger but then I fall for it again hoping to get a great one.  It's ashamed, they used to be great.

 

[Fishfighter]

Come to think of it, I haven't bought one in over a year. Maybe I am over them for good. 

Daiwa does build excellent reels. 

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

I got the President XT last year for my ned set up and so far it has been great.  Casts twice as smooth and far as my Lews that cost twice as much.  

[Ham]

1 hour ago, aarchdale@coresleep.com said:

I got the President XT last year for my ned set up and so far it has been great.  Casts twice as smooth and far as my Lews that cost twice as much.  

Yeah, I’ve been terribly disappointed with Lew’s Spinning. I’ll fish the ones I have already until I can’t stand it and then I’m done with Lew’s spinning reels.

 

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

9 minutes ago, Ham said:

Yeah, I’ve been terribly disappointed with Lew’s Spinning. I’ll fish the ones I have already until I can’t stand it and then I’m done with Lew’s spinning reels.

 

Im with you on that, i have a few still ,they run pretty rough unless i totally drench them with reel magic at the start of the day.  Ill probably stick with the president XT and my Daiwa Procyon's for a while