Just to chuck in my thoughts on an old thread!

I have had the Okuma inc 6000's, and yes, they were great, the clutch is excellent, but, I did have the fault with the backwind. I ended up selling my short rod set up, and then missed it after a year or so, so ended up getting another, I used my Obsidians briefly on them which due to their weight worked well, but I needed them on my longer rods, so I wanted some compact reels for my 10fters. If I had the budget at the time, I'd have got the Onyx Compacts, I disregarded the Okuma simply due to their age now, and reels have come a long way in the last 5 years.

I've always steered clear of Sonik reels, because they used to be dreadful, but I looked into the 5k Carbons, and was quite pleased with them, the build etc is great and more up to date compared to the Okuma's, their only downside was the clutch, so rather than be unhappy with them, I ordered the ice washers for them and it's made them perfect, they're getting their first outing tomorrow, so hopefully all is well!

Great work, I was really pleased to see the update, works great on desktop and on mobile! 👏

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I've just got some, I loved the look of them, simplicity is nice, I got the white underlit ones and an orange 4 mag roller - had them out last week and christened them, they beeped when I wanted them too, and didn't when I didn't want them to in the wind etc, which was nice!

I downgraded from the Rx+ for them, mainly as I don't go as much as I once did, and saw no sense in sitting on expensive stuff that I don't use enough, and I found these to be a cool alarm to sit behind.


The speaker is decent, the caps they provide don't really do much from what I have gathered tbh, but the on off function for the speaker is solid, cases are good, I got the deluxe receiver, which also seems good.

Anything else you'd like to know?

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Hey, thanks man, must've watched this three times already 😂 I'm after seeing if anyone's had their hands on them yet for feedback.

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Has anyone seen them in person yet, now they're released in shops? I'm keen to see them.

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I'm using the Tackle box Cfx blacks in 10ft, and they're gorgeous looking rods, and they feel great too! Cast well, and the action on them is nice too, I have 3.25's and they're still nice and soft not rigid. I would imagine they're a superior rod to the quickdraws, they'd need to be really good to be on par with the Cfx

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Ok I'll submit the only spooky occurrence I've had while fishing! I still can't explain it..


A few years back my brother in law at the time and I went fishing for his birthday weekend down at Linch Hill, we fished Willow lake, had a walk around and settled on the end, near what looked like an old cabin or shed of some sort was derelict in the long overgrown wooded area.

We were sat in his swim having a couple of beers, nothing too heavy, just a few. After a while, it had gotten dark and I decided to pop back to my swim just to check everything was as I left it. As I left his swim and began walking towards my swim, this thing, came thundering towards me and at the time it sort of sounded like a horse or something, big and heavy! I stopped and sort of braced for it to clatter into me as that's how close it sounded and felt, yet nothing happened, I saw absolutely nothing!

Feeling quite confused, I checked everything at mine and quickly went back to my mates swim, and before I could even get to sit down he goes to me “wtf were you doing running about like that back there!?” ... I didn't run or do anything but walk to my swim, so whatever it was he heard it too! We got up and decided to have a look around, didn't see anything, no hoof marks or anything, we did find an old discarded bedchair in the wooded area, looked like it had been there a while.

I then went to bed, I felt weird, like all of a sudden I felt awful, dreadful, tried to sleep it off yet I was hallucinating and sweating out, nothing felt right, and to top it off in all of this one of my rods went off and I had to land a tench while feeling like death. I think I managed to get some sort of sleep among the fever and hallucinations. Come morning I just wanted to go, anyone that knows Linch Hill knows there's a massive barrow run to get back!

On our way back though some lads stopped us for a chat, and one of them said “you boys are mad, I'd never fish up that end again... and said did you hear the runner....” I wasn't fit to chat much but my mate told them what happened. And tbh I don't remember much about what happened after this. Anyone else had any like this at Linch Hill? Would be fascinating to see if the runner was actually a thing, as we mentioned it to someone of the staff and they didn't have a clue what we were on about!

That's my story!

Thanks

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You definitely get used to it, I thought it was too quick, but after a few uses it comes up quite useful in the end.

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Try Parkfield Angling Centre 👍🏼

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I've recently got the Cfx blacks in 10ft, they're a serious bit of kit, they look great, they feel great, and perform really nicely too! If you can go to the shop then I'd recommend it, they'll tell you more about why they're as good as they are.