Anyone on this forum going? I'm taking a few people out on that trip and was curioius to see if anyone on here was going.

I wish

let us kno how u did

So how was the trip?

We were running away from snapper all freakin day. Started the day trying to drift fish for kings, but that didn't last long, b/c there were people that did not know how that was supposed to work and got a whole mess of ppl knoted up. I casted larger spoons off the back of the boat with no success. Usually no hits on spoon = no kings. There were more snapper and sharks landed than I care to remember. There was one Warsaw hooked AND landed that weighed about 50lbs give or take a few. I hooked up twice on a grouper on a hammered diamond jig and got broke off both times. Broke off the main line, 65lb tuffline xp the first time and 80lb daiwa boat braid the second.

I hooked up with something, most likely an amberjack on a knifejig and had it break off as well. I had gear failure all day really. I hooked up with the amberjack on a quantum cabo 60 and the anti-reverse broke on the reel.

I didn't bring any fish home, but I caught about 25 snapper from 2-20lbs (all thrown back) and I gave away a shark, a mackeral, and a hardtail.

Which boat did you go out on?

The Big E.....
Underwater Expeditions

sounds fun for a 12hour trip! sucks about the gear failures though.

On the Cabo there is a a spring that engages and disengages the anti rev.. i had that happen on mine so i took a spring out of a pen and put there and it works better than it did new

?????? got any pics of that? cause I've replaced Cabo (spinner) anti reverses more than I care to mention & there's no spring.....
It's a magnetic 1-way roller brg.


John, I bet you were heavy jigging with that -60, weren't you? gimme a holler, I got a few extra's

haha actually no Brian. I was jigging 200g max with the cabo. Most of the time I was just dropping lucanus jigs, but when I did put on a 220 g hammered diamond jig I didn't speed jig. Mostly yoyo jigging and it still gave on me.

Honestly Brian, I think I'm going to stick to shimano and daiwa now. My goal this trip was to see how far I could take the cabo w/o it breaking. I found out I guess. The biomaster however performed flawlessly for most of the day. It's the perfect "budget" reel to go with any 200-300g jigging rod.

Sorry man i was thinking of my Quantum Cabo 60

I think (liteliner) is talking about the same reel dude.

I'll look it might have bin one of the others, but i thoght it was my Cabo, because the anti rev stoped working and i fixed it on my Cabo,

It was my Cabo, next time i go out to my lake house I'll get it and tell you how i did it, i can't rember off the top of my head. But there is a spring that is part of the rev... I have had great luck with mine i have caught every thing from reds to a 6ft bull shark. But i guess you never know when something is going to break.
Sorry "IgotSNAGGED" i didn't reread the top when i posted

Dusty