Although a tiny bit heavier than the regular 690-4, it feels lighter, the improved balance playing a little trick on my senses
If you find that your hooklink is not staying buoyant, you can simply rub a small amount of Vaseline up the link to ensure it does
Loosen the rotor nut by twisting it clockwise usually all of the reels I have disassembled have reverse threads on this nut
What happens is the harder bottom areas, especially in drawdown lakes, weedy stuff that was able to provide habitat during the summer, the aquatic plants that got rooted to rocks or to hard bottom becomes the preferred crayfish habitat for a few months until late fall (coinciding with drawdown) which gets the crayfish population migrating into nearby burrowing areas of softer bottom
00:47:28 Mike: But yeah, you run into that stuff, like just stuff that you, you never, never seen before or never, never thought to do that you, you ended up doing in your session and catching fish and it, uh, got to figure out how to, how to explain that to, to people, you know, to your teammates