New Brand Fishing Reel "PRO Challenger" With Real

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PRO Challenger’s PRO Series (Aluminum Frame) Trolling Reels are made with one piece T-6061 Aluminum CNC forged frame precision cut by the industries most precise tooling machines. Our aluminum frame reels are standard fitted with titanium drag plate and Teflon brake washer. PRO Challenger’s reels are built for the Big Game Fishers to last a lifetime and offers an industry best five (5) year warranty for all aluminum frame trolling reels. Please check us out at: http://www.prochallenger.com
The 2-speed model will be out in few months. I was going to attach some pics in this thread, but the files were too big. If you want to see the pictures, just go on to our website.

The following statement is made by one of our customer.

Reels:
PRO 16TR and PRO 20TR Test Results
PRO 16TR held up under extreme conditions of standup harness fights as long as 3 hours with no drag change under heat and pressure. Highly recommeded for dacron and hybrid lines. Superior performance in the 80-130# class. These reels my be underated because of their size but the outstanding design, construction and quality materials put them at, if not above the same performance standard with the "big names". Unlike our Penn and Shimano midsize reels, the PRO 16TR, after many 1-2 hour fights did not suffer any notable drag loss or stagger. They still produced a hot (208 degrees) drag resistence of 22.62# on the test scale with smooth adjustment getting there.The only alterations we made were:
1. Applied a paste lubricant to the bearings to avoid overrun on freespool. This is something we do to all our reels before each tournament to avoid mishaps on dropback to the fish. Always a bad time for a tangle.
2. We used a hydraulic press at 65lbs to reset the guides for the detent stops for full and free spool. This was done during reassembly with the end plate loose and separate. Extra care must be taken to align the splines on the guide with the splines in the endcap before applying pressure.
PRO 12TRL Test Results
The PRO 12TRLs were prepped for jigging and baiting blackfin and yellowfin. We set them up and fished them as we would Senator 4/0 113h or TLD / Triton units despite the reduced size and weight difference. Our test was conducted real world style. Moonlight tuna jigging on deep structure in 1500' of bluewater. The PRO 12TRL is only 1/3 the weight of the Penn units so after 4 hours, 45 minutes of use... we certainly held up better. The drag adjustment was easily accessed and precise thanks to the clever "button release" on the leverdrag adjustment. We let some of the guys that rode along use the PRO 12TRLs after they spent 1 1/2 hours with the Penn units they brought with them. They wanted to take the PRO 12TRLs home with them right then. Unfortunately they were the only two units I had. One guy said " I guess I can just use that old school Senator for the museum shelf ". The ease of use for that type of repeticious drop down and retrieve was a real plus as the hours passed. We (as always) used hybrid braid with a topshot of mono so we did alter the line guide to 4mm to allow the passage of our line splice without obstruction.


The Totals:

72 hours on the water / 338 gals fuel / 318nm
16.5 hours fish on time /
1 Atlantic Blue Marlin / est.320# / tag and release / 3rd place
2 White Marlin / est.100-110# / tag and release / 1st and 2nd place
26 Blackfin
9 Yellowfin / 4th place 182lbs
5 Dolphin over 30#
2 Wahoo over 50#
1 Wahoo over 80# / 1st place / 6lbs under state record
6 Amberjack
Losses due to angler / 4
Losses due to tackle / 0