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Been hunting fish for decades, used to shoot weekends and an evening or two a week for years. Retired in 05, I stalk banks and shoot fish almost everyday.. literally. Shot 14 fish just today. probably 170 over the last week or so. I am in south Florida, we have a tilapia problem..lol.. they are in every piece of water here by the thousands. I don't particularly care for them but I do keep my neighbors stocked with fish. Now for the reels, I shoot an Osprey, I LOVE the bow.. I would recommend them above any others for doing this work, hands down. Now to the reels, the silver muzzies.. meh.. I have worn many of them out, some very quickly, to me they are not worth having. The tournament Muzzy, I have one,, I shoot 150# line.. that thing gave me fits with the pickup pins hanging out catching my line on the shot, pickup pins collapsing on the retrieve, just issues. I addressed every one of them as they popped up. First, remove one of the pickups and put it aside. Next increase spring tension on the one that is left. mirror polish the S.S. rim n the line pickup. Shim the rattley handles or they buzz every time you fire. Add a small diameter sprig onto the button to hold it and stop it from rattling and flopping about. Remove the spool, those PLASTIC rollers that are on the pickup pin, replace them or it with the same thickness and diameter stainless steel. lastly pull out the bearing under the spool, wrap with a thin strip of teflon tape and wedge it back in GOOOD. That stops it from following the shaft out when you push the button and allows the pickup to drop all the way, if it hangs on the shaft.. it interferes with the pin dropping and it hangs it up partially out. So YES. Even this reel could use some improvements... (paying attention Muzzy??). After doing all of these things, mounted to a gar god reel seat with a shoot through rod.. It actually rocks, I have made some LOOOONG shots on fish, 35 plus yards with it and it has reeled in a LOT of fish. I also have a megamouth 2.0.. the manual of "arms" is different on these reels. I shoot a lot of saltwater as well and that is where this reel shines.. it is able to fight a 30 plus inch Cubera snapper or a 110 lb southern stingray and not break doing it, it also shoots very nice with the 150# line. It can wear your hand out over a night of shooting constantly squeezing the retrieve bar, and this is where I like the tournament reel as it is shoot-reel. But the megamouth is by far the best reel I own, I have not had to fix anything out of the box I did polish the innards a bit the stainless ring on the line pickup now wears a mirror polish and the mold flash on the inside of the mouth on the hood has been eliminated and polished to 3000 so it is nice and slippery.. other than the fluff and buff it works perfectly. I was happy to add it to my arsenal. It does shoot a bit differently on the bow, so when I change reels and seats i do have to "practice" a bit before going out killing, That however does not bother me.

Damn you hate that bag lol

17:34 Option 3, none of those things happen that he mentions and instead your line snaps back and potentially puts the arrow in you.

Bro the adjustable foot tension screw binds up if you got to tight. One side is right handed threads and other is left handed that allows you to tighten or loosen going one direction with nut. I was watching your video because I’m putting one on tonight. Take the rod seat off take out two Allen screws I had use pliers after took off left hand threaded side to get adjustment nut loose. Then it tightened up nicely.

Good looking bow I tried finding their website and not even alot out there on them unless its buy sell or trade

Good to see a couple of fellow corncobs you guys ever hit Rathbun as to the bow issue AMS Hooligan wish I had the coin for a Oneida but it ain't happening😎

This inspired me. Opened my mind to an idea i didnt think about. Thanks so much for this. Im gonna have to make a video of my project because as of right now your the only one who did this successfully and showed everything. This is the content i consume on yourube. I search for examples of ideas.

Nicely done on this. I guess you could say I started bow fishing when I was a kid. Hahha. After watching some of y’all. I played with a bow and got some fish. I think I want to get back into that. I would like a decent rig. However I just plan to play with it. Excellent job on this video. Have a blessed weekend. Dale.

Thank is for taking the time to share this video with us. I had never thought about a few of these things. Well done and excellent delivery of the information. I will go check out your friends stuff as well. Dale.

Brother that was so kind of you to give him a shout out. Just subbed you just for that alone. Looking forward to this video. I will comment later as well. Dale.

At about 12 minutes you talk about plugging into the gen first, making the line hot. My question is: could you have just ran a straight line from the converters through a rubber grommet, ultimately eliminating that "camper outlet"? I am about to do this same setup, so I'm wondering if that would be better

You gonna do more bow fishing videos

What year did it came out?

Looks like a kids toy.can only say gnat a thousand times.

5.11 Rush 72 in multicam!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤

Did he decide to go with the gnat?

I can recommend savotta backpacks

Ty, great thoughts, probably saved me some money on batteries.

I have owned one for a EIGHT DAYS. I am retired, I spend most of my days walking canals and ponds here in South Florida, Shooting Gar, Tilapia, Mayan Cichlids... Etc. I spend many, many hours shooting fish from the bank and my boat. Yesterday I had an Off day, I was consistently missing fish and slinging arrows wide, high and low. I thought it was me.. It wasn't. It was this reel. I lost 4 brand new arrows during the course of my shooting today. It seems this reel has decided to not retract the pickup pins all the way.. most times it does, other times they stick out far enough to interfere with the line going out putting a whole lot of drag on it and stopping the arrow short of the shot I was making.. and several times far enough to catch the line mid shot and break off my arrow!! I had to bring it home and operate on it.. hopefully it works correctly now.. I have had this reel only a short period of time and it has progressively gotten worse. I have fired roughly 1200 shots through it.. It was delivered to me on the 8TH of this month.. this is the 16th. If you are a regular daily shooter this is a DO NOT BUY. EIGHT DAYS AND IT IS JUNK.

Awsome job. Thanks for the video

thank you man, nice work. I was about to buy it but you convinved me not to do it

What kind of light is in the inside of your real housing? That’s pretty cool. I would like to do the same thing with a different color.

Thanks for the video. Is this shorter and lighter than the ONIEDA osprey?

Do you know the width of the part that sandwiches the riser for the reel seat?

I’d be more concerned about water shorting the boxes out than overheating. They will get hot so yea, open the lid.

Great video but the power cord to the trolling motor looks to small of gauge.

How does the steering work

What about fishing around tree limbs? Does the fan ever get hung up

Would love for you to make a videos of your upgrades on your lvx

Great review! Thanks

Um

So, how’s it shooting?

Mega mouth is the best real hands down !!! I have 3 and I’m just a average guy. They don’t break and it they they fix it. You get what you pay for ! Just saying

How many ppl can you fish off the 18-60 and could you run turnys out of it?

I've been using AMS Pro Retrievers for the past two years on two of my bows. I never knew that notch was there to hook the string on. Thanks!!

Muddy River Outdoors, if you are ever in search of any more information about the MegaMouth, feel free to reach out!

So you are not running any batteries in between your setup? Do you notice any drawbacks of not having them?

Great content thanks for the information and showing us exactly how you did it. My only question is, is the generator a specific part of it you have to have that exact one or can you run any generator that’s rated for that many watts?

I’m a recreational bow fisherman and like 2 features the AMS reel has. First is the 350lb line. Shooting at carp in the tules and getting my arrow caught up it’s easier on my hands when retrieving the arrow back. Secondly I never have to think about releasing the line prior to shooting so I personally believe there’s less risk of snap-back.

Shot bottle reel my first year. Last 2 yewrs been shooting mega mouth. Night and day difference. The mega is So flippin nice

I second carp cartel, ordered a bunch through them. Totally impressed and always recommend him

Very cool video. I’ve been wanting to build a g-nat too. I have been shopping around for reels. I’ve always shot ams bottle reels. I think I’m going to make a switch to the muzzy tourney reel. What are the lights in the front of the reel? Those are badass brotha

Did you bring all those batteries in one trip ?

What about the old Zebco 808? I still use one of those. They work just fine. I have yet to tear mine up or break a part. People have been using the old 808 for 40 plus years.

I love my Muzzy tournament pro. I HATE the integrated reel seats. There’s been a couple times my reel went bad. Flip the lever, new reel on, tie on arrow and head out.

If you want to sell the megamouth reach out

I've been using harshlock arrows and tips. They're pretty awesome but ridiculously expensive

You’re the man thank you for another awesome video! 🙏💪

Can you send me a link for this bow. Really would like to check it out. I like short bows myself because I’m short as well. Thanks.

This is probably the best damn reel explanation on TH-cam for sure. Appreciate the thorouness