Powerful, High Precision, Heat Treated Stainless Steel Gears.Powerful Carbon Drag Delivers Wide Range and Smooth Performance, Even When Wet.Super Strong, Cold Forged Aluminum Spool.Click Detent Ergonomic Drag Star Won't Drift.Positive Thumb Bar Free Spool with Auto Engagement.Precisely Adjustable Star Drag Max 28 lb.Force.It's also a great casting reel! If you are in the market for a modern star drag reel, and want a reel that you can hand down to your kids after a generation of use, this is it! Its 5:1 gear ratio combined with the torque it generates will allow you to reel in big fish. This is not something you normally see on this powerful of a reel, and anglers love thumb bars! With stainless steel gears, seven shielded stainless steel ball bearings and a clutch bearing instant anti-reverse, the Maxel Hybrid Star Drag Reel is corrosion resistant and won't fail under pressure. The Maxel Hybrid's most striking feature is its thumb bar design that allows you to easily engage the reel. It is constructed of aluminum and weighs just 13 ozs while delivering 28 lbs of fish stopping power with its top of the line carbon drag system. With an instant anti-reverse clutch bearing, shielded stainless-steel spool-support bearings, cold-forged aluminum spool, heat-treated stainless steel gears, one-piece precision-machined and tempered aluminum frame and a beautiful anodized finish the Hybrids are first-class in every way.Maxel Hybrid Star Drag Reel is the future of star drag reels! Fishing reels are getting lighter and more powerful and this reel hits on both notes. Line capacity is substantial 275 yards of 30-pound test braid for the HY20 and 330 yards for the HY25. The Hybrids are available in two sizes, the HY20 and HY25, in silver or black, and there’s also a southpaw version of both reels in silver finish. There’s a clicker for light-tackle trolling or for when dead sticking a strip bait. There’s no cross-top bar so the angler can thumb the spool for optimum line control when live lining or fluke fishing. Maxel seems to have thought of everything. The arms of the "star" on the star wheel are ergonomically angled slightly inward toward the center of the reel so fingers can’t mistakenly alter the drag setting while cranking the handle. The star drag wheel has clicking detents so once the drag is set it won’t slip. The drag is buttery smooth, and there’s plenty of it – 28 pounds! This awesome power can stop fast-running school tuna, turn a powerful striped bass away from a jetty or win the argument when hauling a blackfish away from a wreck. When short stroking fish from deep water, the ratio is just perfect for gaining line and keeping it tight on every down stroke of the rod. It’s plenty fast for bluefish jigging at a quick pace, or with slowed down handle cranks it’s great for slow-pitch jigging. The Hybrid’s 5:1 gear ratio really hits the sweet spot. When bass or blues hit the jig on the drop down in free spool, you come tight to the fish in a nano second soon as you crank the handle. Re-engaging back into gear is instantaneous with a forward crank of the reel handle, which is great for jigging. While palming the reel in my left hand, I could quickly depress the thumb bar with my right thumb with no fumbling at all. I fished a Hybrid 25 for bottom fishing and also for jigging, and really liked the thumb bar spool release feature. The overall handle length is perfect for rapid line retrieval without being awkward. The round handle knob has a non-slip surface, and a small but very fisherman-friendly feature is the machined hourglass shape of the handle knob shaft that helps the angler’s fingers get the best grip on the knob. At only 13 ounces, it balances nicely with rods from 6 to 7-1/2 feet."Īdding to the comfort and superior design is an S-shape handle that keeps the handle knob closer to the center of the reel to minimize reel wobble while the angler is cranking fast for speed jigging. "You can buy one reel and use it for just about everything," said Jerry Gomber, Director of Development for Bimini Bay Outfitters, the Maxel distributor, "and the round shape and recessed reel foot positions the Hybrid low on the rod so it’s very comfortable to fish whether bottom fishing or jigging. The Hybrids are true multi task reels equally at home drifting for fluke, live lining for stripers, chumming or jigging bluefish, bottom fishing for sea bass and tog, and light trolling for dolphin and albies. They’re called Hybrid because they combine the engineering, machining and impeccable high standards of the company’s Ocean Max lever drag reels, but in a star-drag configuration.
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