Daiwas new Auto tournament drag.. Why!

[Breambassin]

This sounds like the biggest head ache of all time. Hopefully I can somehow remove this feature because I was planning on buying 3 of these. Please can somebody tell me why?

[bender]

ATD - another terrible daiwa...

but - its quite a smart feature and will help those that forget to take water pressure on line into consideration...

[BloodWorm]

They had you rack fisherman in mind when they came up with that idea.

Not

[matt jorg]

I'd be surprised if there's any noticable difference to what we know and use.
Just marketing, there's gotta be a reason to buy the new exist as it's just a new look and magseal bearings.
I dunno why it's in the freams you'd like to think freams and exist don't run the same drag?!

[The G factor]

Although I wouldn't actively seek such a feature, I did experience a situation where this would have been handy.

I'm not experienced in long fights with Pelagics on lighter gear but last week I hooked up to a good yellowfin tunA that was destroying my branzino, after 150m of line was out it went ping and all over. I didn't increase the drag but the extra line out with blistering runs obviously put a lot more pressure on the line than I thought. Was a good lesson that's for sure.

[spawn_again]

probably no point critisising the technology when none of us have really tried it yet. as stated above it will prob be more subtle that we think. I dont think daiw would introduce this technology without extensive field testing in a variety of conditions.

[bamm]

Originally Posted by spawn_again

probably no point critisising the technology when none of us have really tried it yet. as stated above it will prob be more subtle that we think. I dont think daiw would introduce this technology without extensive field testing in a variety of conditions.

+10

[Normoh]

Would be good for trout too I reckon