Screaming baitcaster

[dsonthelake84]

I have 2 older Curado's that had never been cleaned after using them for 4 years. They started losing casting distance and making funny sounds to which I got on the internet and learned how to take them apart and clean them. Never had a problem since, got back all of my original casting distance that was hard to tell it was going away little by little and even cleaned my buddy's reels for him. Too bad for him that he forgot they were freshly cleaned the next trip out, had just spooled up with nice new Seagar Invisix, hit the button to make that first cast and BOOM, birds were nesting all over his reel. One of those that is so bad, you don't even attempt to pick out, just cut off the lure and shove her back in the box. Not funny in that he just wasted $15 worth of line, not funny to see him not to get to use his baitcaster that day, but was funny watching him cut it all out that night at the room cussing all the time because he forgot that I had cleaned them. I will clean all my stuff on a yearly basis from now on. Easy to do and not much to it.

What site did you find that showed you how to break apart and clean your reels.

[elnutsmalljaws]

What site did you find that showed you how to break apart and clean your reels.

http://www.del-mart.com/htmlfolder/info/hotrod.html

I just found this one pretty quickly. I know this is not the exact one I found back in the summer but I do know I searched, Shimano Curado Cleaning Tips or Techniques thru Google and found several. Look it up, the one I did find had pictures and stuff and even offered some places to buy new bearings, to which I did not, for mine were in good shape but they run around $7 per if I remember correctly. It really was not that hard to do. Did about 8 of my reels one day then had my buddy drop all of his off the next and did all of them in a couple of hours as well.

[MagikSmallie]

The only reels I have ever seen that do this are Abu Garcia Ambassadeurs, I know this doesn't sound professional or anything but the only way I was able to get them to stop "screaming" was to dunk them in the water and they'll stop.

[rustedhook]

http://www.del-mart.com/htmlfolder/info/hotrod.html

I just found this one pretty quickly. I know this is not the exact one I found back in the summer but I do know I searched, Shimano Curado Cleaning Tips or Techniques thru Google and found several. Look it up, the one I did find had pictures and stuff and even offered some places to buy new bearings, to which I did not, for mine were in good shape but they run around $7 per if I remember correctly. It really was not that hard to do. Did about 8 of my reels one day then had my buddy drop all of his off the next and did all of them in a couple of hours as well.

Check out this site.
rustedhook
http://super-tuning.home.mindspring.com/s1a.html

[DYNATRAK]

ron, great article. i've got my boat all cleaned up and ready to hit the water. i'll spend this week cleaning all my reels. holler at me and let's hit cedar.

[rustedhook]

ron, great article. i've got my boat all cleaned up and ready to hit the water. i'll spend this week cleaning all my reels. holler at me and let's hit cedar.

I plan on being there this coming Wdnesday.

[Gus]

Very interesting replies. Cold weather is definitley a factor. I cleaned and oiled the bearings again on Saturday as I have always done when I have encountered this problem. On Sunday's fishing outing the reel was still screaming early in the A.M. but not as bad as before. Of course Sunday's 45 degrees was much warmer than the 25 I fished in this week. As the day went on Sunday, and the temps went up, the reel began to act normally. The Curado does not have the palm plate side, level wind gear like the ABU's do, therefore that is not the problem. I do intend to try the Hot Sauce but it appears that if the weather is warm I won't have an answer until November.