Thanks for the review. I just picked up a Brutus myself--for basically the same reason, to see what these lower priced reels are about, and while I haven't fished it yet, I am kinda blown away by it out of the box. Good to know what to expect after a season (which is a great idea for a review BTW) I'm also a lefty, and have never understood the reason why the retrieve was always "opposite" than what is intuitive. Glad some of you younger anglers have given that convention up.
@@spicecantfish1321 yeah the fishing UA-cam community is very small and not a lot of people do product reviews like you did. I just picked up a Megatron 200 and out of the box I love it but I don't want to buy two of the same real from a company I'm not sure of so you really did help me out
My Spartacus is a junk. It was missing sophistication when I had difficulties opening up a side of centrifugal brake. Not possible to adjust the right spool tension, items 20 or 21 or both may be missing.
You bet dude! For the money, Kastking makes some decent stuff. Met the guys who run it, super cool guys. Would suggest looking at some of their reels in the $70-100 price range, from what I hear they’re pretty solid. Appreciate the kind feedback, tight lines!
@@spicecantfish1321 next question what rod do you recommend? I know ugly stik is king, but I looked at favorite white bird rod and kastkind perigee II rod, even grit stick casting rod, I'm asking your opinion of thos rods
@@rdvaughan70 always gotta keep a couple ugly sticks around haha! I haven’t tried any of the 3 rods you asked about, or heard anything about 2 of them. I’ve held a whitebird briefly in a Dicks Sporting once, but that’s about all the hands on experience I have with it. Seems like it’s a bit on the softer side, definitely a moving bait rod. Even the 7’6” heavy is more of a parabolic heavy from what I can tell, and the 7” medium heavy or 7”3 medium heavy, whatever it is, is almost a medium. Not a bad feeling rod, not the lightest but not the heaviest either. I only own 1 favorite rod (although I used to have a second one before I lost it to the lake) but they weren’t bad rods, Just nothing special. Sorry for the long response, hope it helps!
@@spicecantfish1321 dicks sporting goods are on my shitlist, said they will pay for employees to travel to get abortions, now thats serious wokism of company, thats worse than disney grooming kids for pedophilia
Good video thanks for your time making this 👍 Dose the brutus line lay rotate when casting out i have a cheep reel and its anoying because the line lay device only works on reteive Thanks chris
Hey Chris! Appreciate the nice words. If you mean the line guide (that little circle at the front of the reel where the line goes through before it goes on the spool) then yes it does go side to side both while casting and retrieving. You can check this video out here if you want to see the Brutus in action more: ua-cam.com/video/ShFzUikD1EQ/v-deo.html hope this helped, tight lines my friend!
@@spicecantfish1321 Like I said in my other comment I just got my Brutus, and it's likely a difference of what "generation" you have, but mine has a disengaging level wind. Then again so does my Shimano Corvalus. I've personally found that it doesn't matter all that in the grand scheme of things, especially now that most baitcasters have such finely adjustable spool tension and cast control. Then again, I've been throwing baitcasters almost exclusively for the last 3 decades.
Hey there! No, I only used these reels for freshwater. They’re pretty inexpensive so they don’t have the best components hence the noise, but I’m rough on my stuff so it may have been my fault
that sound when u reel its failing part of the bearings, i had 2x that issue, had to buy the parts from kastking main website twice! its 3 bearings, spool, pinion gear bearing, or the side plate bearing. If ur interested in buying the bearings you can purchase them on their main website for 7-8$ i can guide you if ur interested.
I'll have to give that a look! I really did like these reels for what they were, wouldn't mind switching out the bearings on the Spartacus and getting it back on the water
@@spicecantfish1321 so those bearings can be all 3 or 2 or 1 its better replacing all of them just in case, when you order on kastking main website choose the $6+ one for parts then when purchasing list the product description and part number you can go on reference on schematics page in there also. There was recent parts i tried to order recently, they weren't sure they had any so they sent me to parts guy, but he was out for a week, i bought my parts from aliexpress and now im waiting for 3 weeks. On aliexpress i can buy multiple parts for cheaper as you know kastking is made by Chinese parts sold in USA, so they use similar parts hence why failing parts. Thats what you get when you purchase kastking lower end gear, im pretty much done with cheap gear and going shimano, diawa, okuma, lews, and abu.
@@CrunkyOMan83 yeah I'm slowly switching my reels over to shimano, but while I could still use a couple more reels then i may as well get a little more use out of them. Thanks for the info my man!
Yeah, I had some issues with the Spartacus pretty quick after I got it, but I guess it can be fixed or serviced with new parts. Kinda what you would expect from a low price reel. But the Brutus was worth it in my opinion!
The Spartacus is a piece of crap. Mine was defective. I have a Megajaws that sounds like a coffee grinder after a year of light use. You get what you pay for.
I think for $35-40 it’s not a bad reel. Would I choose it over a Shimano or a daiwa? Never. But for a weekend dude or someone just getting into fishing they’re not terrible options. I definitely like the Brutus over the Spartacus though, i have to say I was not impressed with that reel at all. Sorry to hear about your megajaws but I’ll definitely be sticking to my shimanos/daiwas. By the way, have you had any experience with the Chronarchs? I hear good things and really bad things. They look decent, but I don’t wanna spend $300 on it when I could just save my money for something else. Appreciate the feedback dude!
Ehhh they’re $40 reels, I didn’t care too much about them haha. It was more of a test to see what they could do for the price point. I wasn’t planning on using them for more than a season which is about as long as they lasted
Thanks for the review. I just picked up a Brutus myself--for basically the same reason, to see what these lower priced reels are about, and while I haven't fished it yet, I am kinda blown away by it out of the box. Good to know what to expect after a season (which is a great idea for a review BTW) I'm also a lefty, and have never understood the reason why the retrieve was always "opposite" than what is intuitive. Glad some of you younger anglers have given that convention up.
A video worth watching, i agree how they hold up after a year? Thats what i want to see. Thank you for this video.👍
Solid review brother, helped me narrow down my next cheap reel to set out on my nexy adventure.
Thanks my friend! Glad I could help 🤙🏾
@@spicecantfish1321 yeah the fishing UA-cam community is very small and not a lot of people do product reviews like you did. I just picked up a Megatron 200 and out of the box I love it but I don't want to buy two of the same real from a company I'm not sure of so you really did help me out
Love the Oscar's! 👀
I was eyeing up those as well, lol.
My Spartacus is a junk. It was missing sophistication when I had difficulties opening up a side of centrifugal brake. Not possible to adjust the right spool tension, items 20 or 21 or both may be missing.
Good info thank you!👏🤙🏻
Absolutely my friend! Glad I could help 👊🏾
The wine noise might be the centrifugal breaks.
Yeah I think they just have cheaper braking systems so they get louder faster
thank you for the very consice informative review, im becoming a kastking fan, and the brutus looks like ill give it a try, great vid man
You bet dude! For the money, Kastking makes some decent stuff. Met the guys who run it, super cool guys. Would suggest looking at some of their reels in the $70-100 price range, from what I hear they’re pretty solid. Appreciate the kind feedback, tight lines!
@@spicecantfish1321 next question what rod do you recommend? I know ugly stik is king, but I looked at favorite white bird rod and kastkind perigee II rod, even grit stick casting rod, I'm asking your opinion of thos rods
@@rdvaughan70 always gotta keep a couple ugly sticks around haha! I haven’t tried any of the 3 rods you asked about, or heard anything about 2 of them. I’ve held a whitebird briefly in a Dicks Sporting once, but that’s about all the hands on experience I have with it. Seems like it’s a bit on the softer side, definitely a moving bait rod. Even the 7’6” heavy is more of a parabolic heavy from what I can tell, and the 7” medium heavy or 7”3 medium heavy, whatever it is, is almost a medium. Not a bad feeling rod, not the lightest but not the heaviest either. I only own 1 favorite rod (although I used to have a second one before I lost it to the lake) but they weren’t bad rods, Just nothing special. Sorry for the long response, hope it helps!
@@spicecantfish1321 dicks sporting goods are on my shitlist, said they will pay for employees to travel to get abortions, now thats serious wokism of company, thats worse than disney grooming kids for pedophilia
Seriously don't buy bargain crap. Buy a good rod and you won't be looking to replace it a month from now. Fenwick Lews or the like.
Does they have drag click??
No it doesn’t, just a normal drag
Man this is a great video! Super informative
Thank you sir! I tried to make it as informative as possible
Good video thanks for your time making this 👍
Dose the brutus line lay rotate when casting out i have a cheep reel and its anoying because the line lay device only works on reteive
Thanks chris
Hey Chris! Appreciate the nice words. If you mean the line guide (that little circle at the front of the reel where the line goes through before it goes on the spool) then yes it does go side to side both while casting and retrieving. You can check this video out here if you want to see the Brutus in action more: ua-cam.com/video/ShFzUikD1EQ/v-deo.html hope this helped, tight lines my friend!
Thanks for your reply 👍 big help
@@spicecantfish1321 Like I said in my other comment I just got my Brutus, and it's likely a difference of what "generation" you have, but mine has a disengaging level wind. Then again so does my Shimano Corvalus. I've personally found that it doesn't matter all that in the grand scheme of things, especially now that most baitcasters have such finely adjustable spool tension and cast control. Then again, I've been throwing baitcasters almost exclusively for the last 3 decades.
Hi, did you use Brutus for saltwater?
Hey there! No, I only used these reels for freshwater. They’re pretty inexpensive so they don’t have the best components hence the noise, but I’m rough on my stuff so it may have been my fault
that sound when u reel its failing part of the bearings, i had 2x that issue, had to buy the parts from kastking main website twice! its 3 bearings, spool, pinion gear bearing, or the side plate bearing. If ur interested in buying the bearings you can purchase them on their main website for 7-8$ i can guide you if ur interested.
I'll have to give that a look! I really did like these reels for what they were, wouldn't mind switching out the bearings on the Spartacus and getting it back on the water
@@spicecantfish1321 so those bearings can be all 3 or 2 or 1 its better replacing all of them just in case, when you order on kastking main website choose the $6+ one for parts then when purchasing list the product description and part number you can go on reference on schematics page in there also. There was recent parts i tried to order recently, they weren't sure they had any so they sent me to parts guy, but he was out for a week, i bought my parts from aliexpress and now im waiting for 3 weeks. On aliexpress i can buy multiple parts for cheaper as you know kastking is made by Chinese parts sold in USA, so they use similar parts hence why failing parts. Thats what you get when you purchase kastking lower end gear, im pretty much done with cheap gear and going shimano, diawa, okuma, lews, and abu.
@@CrunkyOMan83 yeah I'm slowly switching my reels over to shimano, but while I could still use a couple more reels then i may as well get a little more use out of them. Thanks for the info my man!
If you learn how to clean your reels properly and more frequently, you won’t have that problem
Noise after three months light use
Yeah, I had some issues with the Spartacus pretty quick after I got it, but I guess it can be fixed or serviced with new parts. Kinda what you would expect from a low price reel. But the Brutus was worth it in my opinion!
Kastking crixus có tốt không, cảm ơn bạn
The Spartacus is a piece of crap. Mine was defective. I have a Megajaws that sounds like a coffee grinder after a year of light use. You get what you pay for.
I think for $35-40 it’s not a bad reel. Would I choose it over a Shimano or a daiwa? Never. But for a weekend dude or someone just getting into fishing they’re not terrible options. I definitely like the Brutus over the Spartacus though, i have to say I was not impressed with that reel at all. Sorry to hear about your megajaws but I’ll definitely be sticking to my shimanos/daiwas. By the way, have you had any experience with the Chronarchs? I hear good things and really bad things. They look decent, but I don’t wanna spend $300 on it when I could just save my money for something else. Appreciate the feedback dude!
Why didn't you just send it back and get another one?
Ehhh they’re $40 reels, I didn’t care too much about them haha. It was more of a test to see what they could do for the price point. I wasn’t planning on using them for more than a season which is about as long as they lasted
Kastking; read their return policy. Hope you save your receipt. I didn't, got a defective reel and I have to eat it.
@@bobr7380what if you ordered it on Amazon?