* (21 May 2026) One month till the June 21st deadline. You'll get either the Stella SW or the Saltiga review by that date at latest, followed by the other one not long after. It's been a long journey to this point, but these reels are released only twice per decade, each then fathers many models via trickle-down, so they certainly deserve the time and effort. We're in the final stretch now, keep me in your thoughts as I consume the caffeine intake of a small village and fire up loads of precious cigars to power through endless typing and photo editing!
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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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