The dp 6500 has a max drag of 12kg, divide that on the 12 drag settings it has you get exactly 1 kg of drag on each setting. I dont know lb, but I do know kg so I will take it in that (still 25lb and dp6500). As a matter of fact, if you have 25lb test on the dp 6500 you can fish on drag 11 without the line breaks.

Now it is 25lb test he was using and not 20lb as you have as an example. A heavy sturg is almost always exerting max pressure, if you are letting RMB go the amount of badly timed attempts to to do and the resulting stripped line will just make your fight longer. You can strongly disagree with RL as your point of contention all you like but this is not RL. 30 or 32lb line you cannot apply any more drag than with 25lb test. If you're running 20 lb with 26.5lb max drag then sucks to be you. No you can't, one away from max is one away from max which you can set your drag to with 25lb test.

This is big fish reeling 101.create slack to take in when there is none via pole possition. Then go back and forth taking line in till fish starts to run again. Keep it up most the time, but soon as the fish slacks a bit you should drop tip of your pole to get extra line in. I strongly disagree with keeping RMB held the entire duration of a fight. Fish will strip less line during its runs, making for a much shorter fight.

With the 32lb test braid I can crank the DP6500 drag up to 2 points from max, and this hardly puts the line into the orange.no instant wear. I know.did this exact thing with first sturgeon I ever hooked. If running 20lb test then you can only turn the DP 6500 drag up to about 3/4 when 35+lbs fish in on.any higher and you will go into the red and pop the line in a heartbeat. JUst reel when the fish gives you some room to do so, should take you no more than 5 minutes to land almost any of them.īut you CAN apply more pressure on the line/fish with higher test line. Really simple, keep RMB down at all times, period. In fact since your max drag is still the same (unless you went max which would just break your reel) you are not applying any additional pressure to the fish at all. Originally posted by Deconstructed:You don't need to use line rated higher than the max drag of your reel.

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