* (6 January 2026) Happy new year. Hope you enjoyed the updates on the upcoming Stella SW 25000 (click), which Shimano will finally reveal Friday morning Japan time. This means visitors of this site knew about it one month before the rest of the world. Also saw another major release from Shimano for later this year, but it would be inappropriate to speak of it this early. More later. Back to work, and you're guaranteed a minimum of 4 reviews in 2026. One minor, two big, and one that will have unprecedented ramifications that you'll remember for a long time. Hope you'll enjoy the great year ahead.
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* (15 December 2025) Merry Christmas!! Have so much to say about this year and the coming one, so wrote a special message. Check it out HERE.
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* (10 December 2025) Published the final two pages of the Japanese expedition. If you've never seen it start from the beginning HERE, but if you've read the first 4 pages then CLICK HERE to start at page 5. Overall I put roughly 600 hours of work into it, about 3 times what an average review usually takes, so I hope you'll enjoy reading it as much as I did creating it.
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* (20 October 2025) Just added the latest scam tackle site ( egingrodsgear.com ) to the fraud list, and thought I'd remind you that this list is always updated, with an average of 25 new fake sites added every year. Share the list and spread awareness because the vast majority of fishermen don't even know that there is such a thing as a fake tackle site.
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* (31 August 2025) The Okuma Tesoro review is up. Click HERE to read it, and hope you enjoy it.
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