* (24 March 2026) Happy Spring everyone. As promised last month, you'll get a review of either the 2025 Stella SW or the 2025 Saltiga this season, followed shortly by the other one. I'm terrible at meeting deadlines, but this time I'm pretty sure I'll make it without asking for extensions. These are going to be monumental works, each for a different reason, and as you read them and cross oceans and seas with me you'll understand why fishing these reels took me a whole year. The jokes are coming out too nasty though, organically sprouting from the experiences, leaving me wondering if I should tone them down or just mark the reviews +25 (they're too much even for 18 olds)!! Anyhow, we're getting close and it's going to be a wild ride.
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* (1 March 2026) This is NOT the casual reminder to check your spam folder for my reply to your questions, it's getting really bad! Several email providers are deploying AI spam filters, and these are untrained and keep catching legitimate emails. They likely read my emails and see that they are replies to messages that didn't originate from the provider, since you sent them via the contact form, thus mark them as spam. In February alone I estimated that over 100 of my replies went to your spam, evident by receiving the same questions a few days later or never receiving a reply to my request for more information about your intended fishing etc. It's usually about a dozen or so a month, not over a hundred. I'll leave this at the top for the longest time possible, and please make checking your spam folder a habit.
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* (15 February 2026) Ready to give a tentative ETA for the reviews of the new Stella SW & Saltiga; Winter will end in a month's time and it's impossible to do it in that short period, so the first of these reviews will come sometime in Spring. Hopefully as time goes by I'll narrow it down further, but for now that's a real deadline instead of open-ended waiting. Stay tuned.
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* (13 January 2026) A bit of disappointing news; just got confirmation that the 2026 Daiwa Certate HD will be made in China. This is NOT a commentary on quality and it could very well be built to superb standards. Rather I'm saddened by the departure from a tradition in which "Certate" has always been a premium spinner made in Japan. Cheapening once prestigious products is a slippery slope.
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