Administrator Levo_RF4 Posted June 4, 2018 Administrator Share Posted June 4, 2018 Hi guys I noticed that a lot of you are worried about the wear on your reels especially when using more expensive reels. Please see some tips below that will help you to slow down wear on your rods, reels and to save money when repairing your gear at the workshop: - Best quality equipment (more star rating) wears of slower, so when buying your equipment, please consider it, as it will save you money in the future. Spoiler - Using braided line makes your equipment wears off faster. - Use mono lines as much as possible - mono lines wear off your rod and reels much much slower than braided lines. - Use the "right"/correct setup for the water body you fishing in and for the fish species you are targeting: * Don't "waste" your very powerful reels and rods when fishing for small fish species. I wouldn't recommend to use Mayor 6000 or Everest 2 8000 when targeting Bream, Ide on Volkhov or Zeiman Rocket Jet when targeting Char, Artic Chars at Kuori Lake - use less powerful reels and rods to save money on repairs. * When making a your setup, please remember that your rod should be stronger than your reel and line. When choosing a rod, reel and line remember that different types of rods/reels/lines are intended to fish for different species. Use heavy carp rods and stronger reels when fishing for carps, barbel, sturgeon and other large species. * Line and/or leader should be the WEAKEST point in your setup - you don't need 25 kg line to get a fish that weights 25kg - you will be fine using a 15kg line. - Let the bigger fish run for a bit - work with your friction brake- don't lock it, don't keep it at 27-29 at all times, give the fish freedom to get tired on lower drag and once the fish is tired then slowly increase the drag on your reel and land the fish. - Don't let the color on the stress indicator go to red when you are fighting a fish - once the stress indicator is on red - your gear is wearing a lot faster than normal: Spoiler Very high stress on your equipment: Low stress on your equipment: - Don’t do forceful reeling when fish is fighting and running away from you, take your time, reel in slowly once the fish stop running/fighting - less damage to your tackle. - Walk after the fish so you can land it faster - once the fish is tired you not need to reel fish 100 m - you can slowly walk to it, also use the current to your advance. - Explore the water body you want to fish in - calculate and test how much line you really need - you might be fine with a 120m mono line on your reel and you might not need 250m braided line for that water body - saving money on repairs. - Targeting all the time bigger fish species and landing them will earn you more silver(in game currency) you will also get more experience from them but please expect that your equipment will wear off faster as well - bigger fish fights harder and make more damage to your gear. For example landing a trophy Russian Surgeon will earn you 1500 + silver coins so please expect that your equipment will get some damage when fighting it, and some of your silver will go towards repairs - this is how the game works. Regards Levo 24 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmyT Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 nice topic!! so when feeder fishig in old burg what fo u recommend for equipment and line then?? am lvl 15 @Levo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Levo_RF4 Posted June 9, 2018 Author Administrator Share Posted June 9, 2018 3 hours ago, JimmyT said: nice topic!! so when feeder fishig in old burg what fo u recommend for equipment and line then?? am lvl 15 @Levo Hi JimmyT Please look here : http://rf4game.com/forum/index.php?/topic/254-levos-guide-setup-suggestions/ Regards Levo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fig Ripley Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 Hi Levo! You mentioned that braid wears down reels faster than using mono. Do you know how much fluoro wears down reels in comparison to mono & braid? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy95 Posted October 7, 2018 Share Posted October 7, 2018 Hello, I would like to buy the Beluga Natora reel to associate with the Heaven Creek Armada SP .. rod to catch zander. I want to know if this reel has a durable (solid) mechanism? Please. I already made the mistake with the Everest ll 6000s reel where the mechanism wears out quickly and is expensive. Thank you for all the guides. Google Translate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Levo_RF4 Posted October 7, 2018 Author Administrator Share Posted October 7, 2018 18 minutes ago, jimmy95 said: Hello, I would like to buy the Beluga Natora reel to associate with the Heaven Creek Armada SP .. rod to catch zander. I want to know if this reel has a durable (solid) mechanism? Please. I already made the mistake with the Everest ll 6000s reel where the mechanism wears out quickly and is expensive. Thank you for all the guides. Google Translate HI When choosing a reel to consider checking star rating - more stars means reel is much more reliable and wears of slower than reels with fewer stars. Again: using a mono line as often as possible will reduce the wear of the reel and costs of repairs. If you want to use mono line more often choose reels with big spools 8000 and 10000. 10000 spool will allow you to fish with mono line even on bigger water bodies. Regards Levo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy95 Posted October 7, 2018 Share Posted October 7, 2018 I am not convinced by the stars when I compare an Everest ll 6000s to the Mayor ltd 6000s it is both 4 stars, the Mayor costs much less expensive repair is used less quickly, using the same cane, the same son and the same lure. Especially at the speed of wear of the mechanism. It is for his I am a little lost to choose a reel that I can use in spinning on long session, I have 2342 days of games I spent 85% of my time fishing in spinning and it's complicated to win big sum of money his request for tempo, I can not allow myself to buy a reel without conerre exactly what represents the star, it would have been necessary to put a star on each component of the reel so that I could make a choice. I hope you understand ^^ I have already tested with mono but I lost too much sonhood in my reel even with 223m of braid I have already taken all my son by 2 pike and it's on the island I can not run after lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Levo_RF4 Posted October 7, 2018 Author Administrator Share Posted October 7, 2018 2 hours ago, jimmy95 said: I am not convinced by the stars when I compare an Everest ll 6000s to the Mayor ltd 6000s it is both 4 stars, the Mayor costs much less expensive repair is used less quickly, using the same cane, the same son and the same lure. Especially at the speed of wear of the mechanism. It is for his I am a little lost to choose a reel that I can use in spinning on long session, I have 2342 days of games I spent 85% of my time fishing in spinning and it's complicated to win big sum of money his request for tempo, I can not allow myself to buy a reel without conerre exactly what represents the star, it would have been necessary to put a star on each component of the reel so that I could make a choice. I hope you understand ^^ I have already tested with mono but I lost too much sonhood in my reel even with 223m of braid I have already taken all my son by 2 pike and it's on the island I can not run after lol Hi Jimmy Everest was 3.5 stars till very last update, also Everest got bigger friction break you can't compare repair cost of those 2 reels based only on star rating. Regards Levo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy95 Posted October 7, 2018 Share Posted October 7, 2018 Yes that's what I was told for Everest compared to Everest ll, thank you for taking the time to answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugiardo Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 (edited) so i bought beluga narga 8000 reel and i am not sure am i using it properly because in 2 days wear is 1.2% at kuori. Caught 4 fish 5+ kg weight.. Its very poverful and i am bit affraid not to damage it to much with high brake when big wish hits (kuori char, pike..). Is it safe to keep stress bar constantly in orange color with higher brake or shoud i loose it in yellow range till end?? Edited December 5, 2018 by Bugiardo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Levo_RF4 Posted December 7, 2018 Author Administrator Share Posted December 7, 2018 On 12/5/2018 at 2:26 PM, Bugiardo said: so i bought beluga narga 8000 reel and i am not sure am i using it properly because in 2 days wear is 1.2% at kuori. Caught 4 fish 5+ kg weight.. Its very poverful and i am bit affraid not to damage it to much with high brake when big wish hits (kuori char, pike..). Is it safe to keep stress bar constantly in orange color with higher brake or shoud i loose it in yellow range till end?? Hi Bugiardo. Do you use a mono line or braided line? Please remember that braided line is doing more dmg to the reel and rod. You doing less dmg when keeping your stress bar at the green. Sry for late replay Regards Levo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugiardo Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Thank you Levo for your answer. I am using braided line snake power braid. i skip mono cause of the lenght of line, afraid not to get sooled. Will try with lower stress bar, cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fyloup Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 (edited) Hello, graphic with cost of repair mecanisme. Spoiler Spoiler Edited December 23, 2018 by Gytautelis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugiardo Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 dont know am i using properly steelhead reel but wear on mechanism is 23% and on fiction brake is 4,5%.. i am using this reel for 2 months maybe now, but wear on mechanism is huge and on f brake is that low. sometimes it happen to get 2-3 % wear a day on mechanism and not catching monsters.. maybe not skilled for baitcasting reels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Team Captain Smith82 Posted January 19, 2019 Team Captain Share Posted January 19, 2019 Hi Levo, using fluoro in reels is like using mono or is better? I mean for wear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ф_ф Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Fluoro is worse than Mono for wear due it's stiffnes. Especially under high pressure (high drag) Mono will be way more forgivable towards Gear wear because it is stretchable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Levo_RF4 Posted January 19, 2019 Author Administrator Share Posted January 19, 2019 On 1/19/2019 at 8:05 AM, Smith82 said: Hi Levo, using fluoro in reels is like using mono or is better? I mean for wear Hi Smith82 I would put fluoro line just before braid line, it will wear your gear faster than mono, if possible use mono line + fluoro leader. Regards Levo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gastonSM Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 Hello Levo, as always thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. Doing trolling I have seen that the reel takes damage even if it does not pull, why? Is it just with trolling or with the other modalities also happens? You recommend using the right equipment for each fish, the problem is that some species can weigh 1Kg, 10Kg, 20Kg and up to 100Kg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WallaceLara Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 Hello Levo, thanks for this post. Very instructive. I would like to ask something about repairs, indeed about grease. Is there any diference in grease quality from map to map? Thanks you all!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Levo_RF4 Posted January 17, 2020 Author Administrator Share Posted January 17, 2020 1 hour ago, WallaceLara said: Hello Levo, thanks for this post. Very instructive. I would like to ask something about repairs, indeed about grease. Is there any diference in grease quality from map to map? Thanks you all!! Hi Yes indeed , there might be difference in grease quality - if is cheaper it will need to be replaced faster. Regards Levo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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