Hes landed some big salmon on it and on the opening week on Gaula in Norway, he landed a magnificent 36lbs/18kg salmon on a Sunray-style fly on an HR 430
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The 8,7 DM model is my favorite for a light beach walker or back bay, launches smaller epoxy jigs and buck tails great and handles swimmers like Sp minnows or similar just fine the action on this rod is more of a moderate action whole rod bends more parabolic, only flaw Ive found are the guides on this model, little flimsy, single footed guides will fail eventually, had to upgrades those and swap them out make them stronger
Youre always going to go through the top 100-yards till its time to re-spool, anyways
A Lever Drag Is Similar, Only You Use The Lever, Sliding It From Free Spool To The Strike Position
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