Lew's Laser XL 60 4.2:1 Casting Reel

Only had a few months, but seems very well built and heavy duty. Has been my go to reel and so far no issues at all. Would, and will, buy again.

I like this reel allot and even bought a second one because of the value for the money. It casts like a dream, has a great drag, and oversize reel handle for good leverage. The frame and spool size seems to be about optimum for the type of catfishing that I do. My only complaint is that one of the two that I purchased has a nice loud clicker while the other one has a mushy feel to engage and is not as loud but I might be able to mod it to improve it.

Good quality reel cast good on my Daiwa emcast

I bought a Kastking rover and as my first round reel, I'm a gear junkie catfisherman who just has to try it all. For most applications I prefer trolling reels for the capacity. So I got the rover and liked it and wanted something similar with a little bit bigger line capacity. Rover 60 is rated for 210yards of 20lb mono the Lazer is rather for 330 I believe without double checking in may be off by a yard or ten. Nonetheless I was dumbfounded when I got the Lazer only to find out just like the rover, catfish sumo, ming yang, and I'm sure many more Lew's bought the same mass produced reel obviously made by some other company and put they're own twist on it "jacked up the line capacity" lowered the drag rating and lowerd the gear ratio as far I can say the drag is much smoother and the retreat and overall function is a lot smoother than the rover but the size is exactly the same. Now I know there are all these different mono brands some of which stating wild size to strength ratio this may be where the vast capacity rat. Is coming from I also know that brands account for MAXIMUM line stretch (mono) when claiming cap. But when I spool mono if i do I damn near have my rod doubled over the whole time just because I'm not only fishing for local channels and even if I'm local I'm aware that a could hook a throphy class blue and I don't want my line cutting into itself. Conclusion if you can live without the thumb bar and want a little bit better guts them go with the lews lazer but aside from a few small differences it's not much different especially bigger than these other reels (rover 60,ming yang 60 ECT)

Well built. Great clicker, great value for the money.