Crankbait reel part 2. Rick Clunn Reel

[keithdog]

A while back I posted a question about casting reels that would make good crankbait reels to replace the two 25 year old Garcia C3 reels I use now for crankbaits. The BPS David Frittz, the Revo Winch and Shimano Curado E5 were all mentioned as good choices, and indeed they are. With two boys now in college I'm watching my budget carefully and the Revo and Curado are not an option at this time. The Frittz reel is where I am leaning as so many folks who use it love it for cranks. However, I have one reel I'd like to bring up and see what the consensus here would be for using as a crankbait reel. I'm talking about the newly designed BPS Rick Clun casting reel model RCX105D. It has a 5.4:1 ratio and retrieves 23 inches of line with each turn of the handle. Twenty three inches sounds pretty good to me for using crankbaits as the David Frittz is close at 21 inches with the 4.7:1 ratio. The Rick Clunn model has an 8 bearing system, and a new dual breaking system. I have read several reviews of this reel on the BPS website and they were all very favorable exept one guy. I have the older version of this reel in a 7:1 ratio and I really love it. I've never had an issue with it.