Re: Tilefish
A couple of points:
All the reels suggested here are good, somewhat inexpensive reels to use. IMO, you can get away with a 4/0, but I prefer a Senator 6/0 for a beginning tilefish reel (I'm not a light tackle guy, what can I tell you..). If you go with the Senator, buy the red Senator, not the black, the red Senator has a faster retrieve. I just bought a Torium 50 and filled it with 65 lbs. braid, I'll see how that works.
Another reason in using braid for tilefish is that it has very little stretch, so that when a fish hits your line, you actually feel it. I heard somewhere that mono can have up to 30% stretch. Braid has 2-3% stretch. That might not make a lot of difference inshore, but when you have 900-1000 ft of line out, that's a different story. 50-65 lb braid is good and make sure you put about 50 ft or so of 50-60 lb mono on top, it'll make life a lot easier if you get tangled.
Just my 2 cents, I hope it's worth that much.
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