Avet Lever Drag Adjustment

[Gerry Zagorski]

As with all lever drag reels there are trade offs... The disk drags are silky smooth but I do a lot of dead sticking, drifting and live lining. Without a line out tension nob like you have on most conventional reels, you are forced to try and adjust the lever drag to control line out tension. The problem is there seems to be no adjustment between the bait and strike settings. In the bait setting it's too loose and once you move the lever drag even slightly past the bait setting, you go right into the stike drag setting.

Looks like Avet has some special cams for this purpose. I just ordered one and will let you know how I make out. If any of you have used these let me know what you experience is.

From the Avet website.

The South Florida and Kodiak cam is a replacement drag adjustment cam with a less aggressive ramp profile to allow a finer lever adjustment range for extremely light drag settings. Very popular for light line sailfish and tournament kingfish with LX and JX models, and salmon and other light line species for the SX - MX models. Choose the cam insert for a permanent retrofit to your reel, or choose the arm with the cam already installed for quick "no tools" changeability back to the original aggressive cam when needed. Specify color when ordering the arm. We suggest ordering a different color arm to easily distinguish from the original arm with the standard cam. These cams do not have the "Bait Setting" detent, for ultra fine lever adjustment immediately from the free-spool position forward.