Lexa 300 Models for Inshore - NJFishing.com Your Best Online Source for Fishing Information in New Jersey

MrAC1980 · #1 05-28-2014, 02:05 PM

No one uses a Lexa 300?? Reason I ask is because I feel my HS-P just doesn't have the power as I expected. Heard guys were using them for blackfish but I felt trying to reel up a modest fish took some work. So I'm thinking about trying a lower gear ratio model.

hammer4reel · #2 05-28-2014, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by MrAC1980

No one uses a Lexa 300?? Reason I ask is because I feel my HS-P just doesn't have the power as I expected. Heard guys were using them for blackfish but I felt trying to reel up a modest fish took some work. So I'm thinking about trying a lower gear ratio model.

I used the HS power handle for fluking and stripers a few years ago and was happy with it.
since then have been using an ABU revo NACL , little more expensive but its a WAY better reel.

MrAC1980 · #3 05-28-2014, 11:45 PM

Thanks for the response. See that reel comes in a lower ratio then the Lexa HS. Makes me tend to believe the lower ratio model Lexa might be a better fit.

hartattack · #4 05-29-2014, 07:11 AM

Love my Lexa 300HSL-P (lefty) for bucktailing Fluke. Casts like a bullet, light-weight, and since I'm a righty I do not have to switch hands before I start bouncing those jigs

And as far as power is concerned - it whupped a 30+ pound ray last year without any issues !!

Wouldn't use it for Togging though

MVP · #5 05-29-2014, 09:08 AM

Go with the lower gear w/ power handle

Skolmann · #6 05-29-2014, 11:37 AM

A Lexa 300 with the 5:1 gear ration is on my Father's Day list. Also going to go with the left handed version (I'm also a righty) and power handle.

I know guys down in Florida that use these reels for blackfin tuna and have no problems.

Hammer, just out of curiosity-what model Revo NACL are you using ?

Seamus · #7 05-29-2014, 03:25 PM

I use a 300 HS-P. No complaints so far on blackfish, fluke, offshore seabass.

hammer4reel · #8 05-30-2014, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Skolmann

A Lexa 300 with the 5:1 gear ration is on my Father's Day list. Also going to go with the left handed version (I'm also a righty) and power handle.

I know guys down in Florida that use these reels for blackfin tuna and have no problems.

Hammer, just out of curiosity-what model Revo NACL are you using ?

Im using the 50 . I didnt like how the 60 felt while palming it , its a little too wide.

Have caught stripers on the 50 to 30 pounds so far just fooling with it . but REALLY like it fluking