The reel is also super comfortable to palm for long periods of time.īig bass caught on the Abu Garcia Revo4 X Baitcasting Reel The grips are easy to feel and not slippery. It casts well and doesn’t backlash easily. It’s reasonably quiet, especially for the price. I really like the feel of the reel overall. If I didn’t know better, it would be easy to say that the Revo4 X and the Carbon Fire rod were made for each other! Making a few hundred casts with these two isn’t tiring at all. So they balanced each other out very well. As I mentioned, the rod is extremely lightweight, and the Revo4 X isn’t overly heavy. And for the rest of the trip, it was a complete pleasure to use.Ĭombining the Revo4 X with the Lew’s Carbon Fire rod was a match made in heaven. So it took a bit more tweaking than I normally require to dial in a reel.īut, after a dozen or so casts, I had it where I wanted it. And to be honest, it was almost too free. The bearings used were obviously decent quality for it to be this free-spinning on the casts. Over the next half dozen casts I was able to dial it in and find that sweet spot that allowed me long casts with no threat of backlashes.ĭuring the dialing in process, I noticed that the spool was extremely free-spinning. I tweaked the brake settings a little more and made another cast. I had to thumb the spool a bit, but there were no backlashes. Thankfully the reel behaved pretty well right out of the gate. So when I made my first cast, I did so carefully, to make sure I didn’t create the mother of all backlashes. Prior to leaving my house, I had adjusted the brakes and spool tension knob to where I thought it should be, based on the typical reels that I have used over the last 30+ years. And it worked wonders for me! Anyway, let me get back to my Abu Garcia Revo4 X Baitcasting Reel Review before I get further sidetracked 🙂Īfter spooling the new reel up with fresh line, I hit a local lake at night for a few hours to give it a trial run. The extra sensitivity would allow me to feel some of those subtle night bites better. Not a single one of the 4 that I own has ever failed me in any way at all.īut I wanted to start using a more sensitive rod for chunking my big spinnerbaits at night. But they have treated me very well as spinnerbait rods. In the past I had been using Abu Garcia Vengeance rods for my spinnerbait fishing. The Carbon Fire rod is 7 ft., super lightweight and is very sensitive. I planned on using it primarily for spinnerbait fishing. It arrived very quickly, so I mounted it on my Lew’s Carbon Fire Medium Heavy rod and spooled it up with Sufix Siege 17 lb.

I ordered it online and waited for it to arrive, hoping that buying it was a wise decision. I happened to see the new Abu Garcia Revo4 X for just under $100 and decided to take a chance and see if this sub $100 reel performed any better than its more expensive predecessor. They became known for their braking problems and massive backlashes.įast forward 10 years. Now, years later, I learned that my experience with the Revo SX was not uncommon. So much so that I returned it and bought a Curado 200E7. Many years ago I bought a Revo SX that was the backlash nightmare of all nightmares. That reel is now the subject of this Abu Garcia Revo4 X Baitcasting Reel Review. Abu Garcia Revo4 X Baitcasting Reel ReviewĪ while back I hesitantly bought a reel that I only hoped would be worth the price I was paying for it. When you buy products through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Tackle Test is reader-supported. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.

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