The Accurate® B-870Narrow, Salmon, Halibut, Rockfish, it does it all

With the diversity of fishing in Northern California, and the popularity of spectra lines growing, anglers are looking for a reel that has multiple uses. The Accurate B-870 Narrow is a reel to fit those needs and more. It’s comfortable diameter and narrow spool make it the perfect match for catching whatever is biting on the North Coast. The B-870N is offered in both 4:1 and 6:1 gear ratios with beefy stainless steel gears for durability.
Like all Accurate reels, the B-870 Narrow is made of 6061 T-6 aircraft aluminum which is lightweight, solid and extremely strong. This reel also features Accurate’s patented TwinDrag™ that gives an angler incredible stopping power as well as the smoothest drag on the market. The 7 class five ABEC bearings keeps the spool spinning freely as well as the smooth retrieve of the power handle.
The Accucast cast control system helps prevent excessive backlashes by letting you control the speed of the spool as you cast a bait or drop a jig to the bottom. It also works perfectly for slow trolling bigger baits that the reel clicker can’t hold letting you still be in free spool when getting bit. The B-870 Narrow line capacity is 250 yards of 30lb mono or 400 yards of 50lb braid.
If jigging is your specialty, the B-870XNC (6:1) coupled with the new Accurate Xnergy ACCJ25066C or ACCJ40058C rods matched with 50 lb braid give you a powerful lightweight outfit perfect for the shallow water rockfish.
For the guys looking to target halibut on the drift the B-870N and the new Xnergy ACCB7030C is a great setup for the angler looking for a powerful rod and reel combo that works with braid or mono.
And for the Salmon angler looking for the killer mooching combo the B-870XNC and an Accurate Xnergy ACCB7020C rod, which gives you plenty of, tip but shuts down fast with the backbone to finish the job. The rods mentioned above all feature a “Floating Fulcrum” which means the harder you pull on the fish the less pressure on you and more on the fish.

Brandon Hayward On the Water

Well, I went fishing on my day off in pursuit of Catalina seabass. I hooked

a good one and decided to hand it off to a 17-year-old girl.  

Long story short, it ended up going 59.7-pound WSB!

I was stoked to see her get it, but I admit that handing off the fish of a

lifetime was a tough pill to swallow. I never looked at a 200- plus pound

tuna and thought, "I wish I had ground that thing in,"  

after handing off hundreds of them, but seeing how a seabass over 50 has a

spot on the wall (when I get a wall), it was bitter sweet. Her Dad never

said thanks or anything, and being a girl she didn't realize fully that they

aren't all 60 pounders. Still, her smile was huge it made here day.

Anyways, the fish was caught on an Accurate 665 Boss loaded with 80- pound

Blackwater Spectra to a topshot of 40-pound Blackwater fluoro that has been

on the reel for ages. The rod was a calstar 7470H and a Salas Christy 2 with

a couple of fresh dead squid was at the business end.

Brandon Hayward

SDLongrange/Accurate 17 day 2008

April 20th was our departure day for the SDLongrange.com Accurate Reels Open aboard the Royal Polaris. We got an early start as Day At The Docks was getting ready to kick off. Around 8:00 am we are off and running on our way to the bait receiver. This is a 17-day ride down ride back with only 15 passengers. The fact that the boat will run short is something to keep in mind when planning your next long range adventure. After taking on a nice load of bait we are headed for Hurricane bank. No one has been there for a few weeks so hopes are high and visions of frisky Wahoo are in everyone’s minds.

We have some great give a ways for this trip along with some daily fishing derbies:

First 200-pound tuna wins an Accurate Boss 870 Reel

First 50-pound Wahoo wins a Accurate Boss 270 Reel

Any 300-pound tuna caught on an Accurate Reel wins an Accurate Reel of their choice (up to 50w) along with a Custom Calstar Rod courtesy of SDLongrange.com

We have 3 days of travel and will start fishing on the 24th.

We woke to clear skies and 10 -15 knots of wind and some of the best Wahoo fishing I have ever experienced, The 6x junior was the ticket for me but just about anything was working. We had no sign of tuna today. The following day would be more of the same with excellent Wahoo fishing and little or no sign of tuna. We did start to see some tuna by the 3rd day at the bank but the Wahoo fishing

was the hot ticket, Just when you would think they are all poked up it seemed like a new batch of fish would 

move in and it was game on. After I think 4 days of this we are off to Clarion to fish the buffer zone in hopes of some Yellow fin Tuna. I usually keep a day-to-day journal but this trip I just enjoyed the great fishing and excellent company.

We arrived at Clarion around 9:00 with a check in at the camp around 10:00. We had a few humpbacks in the anchorage with us, which was quite a sight. Aaron jumped in and swam with them for a while which was really cool to watch.

Check in is done and we are off shore to look for tuna. Our first school produces some nice fish to 267 pounds and 2 others over 200 along with 3 for me from 140-190#’s

Got to sleep on the anchor which is always nice and the weather is getting better by the day. The rest of the trip would be very similar with a few handfuls of nice tuna being caught everyday. We still haven’t given the reels away yet but had a few contenders.

We did come across a nice log holding some pilot fish and enough Wahoo to finish us off on what we needed. Along with a nice 55-pound Wahoo for Chico earning him a new Accurate Boss 270 reel. Last minute trip add-on David would get the fish of a lifetime on the next to last day weighing in at 334. What a beautiful catch. All though a 300-pound Yellow fin Tuna would be considered trophy enough, this fish would earn David a new Accurate Boss 870 Reel. We fished until noon the next day and headed for home, we left some gear together as we would make a drive by of the Rosa Bank looking for Albacore or Blue fin. We did meter some fish and bagged a Bonito on the troll but nothing we were looking for.

Accurate 665NN (narrow narrow), this reel is a wahoo killer, casts great, nice and narrow for easy line lay on the fast retrieve, a 5:1 high gear that is fast enough to trigger strikes yet very easy to reel even with the bigger jigs. And low gear if you just want to grind them to the boat.

This trip will be the same length next year (17 Day ride down ride back) so hope you can make it. Call the Royal Polaris office

for details: 619-226-8030

Go get some!

Brandon
SDLongrange.com

17# Striper with 6# Mono on TwinSpin 12

I just wanted to thank Accurate Reels again for your support, in all of our endeavors. Including several World and State Records we will be attempting to break this year. Our biggest attempt will be for the IGFA World Record 2lb test Striped Bass. The current record is 21 lbs. I have full confidence in breaking this record if not once, but several times. We had a ball "Breaking-in" the SR-12. Here is just one video I had time to post. Enjoy, and let me know if you like it. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVaVhCiVt88

Thanks,
Mike Smedley
Team Old School

New Internal Z Slide in TwinSpins

We chose to make the Internal Z Slide out of 7075 Aluminum instead of 6061 Aluminum. 7075 is double the strength of 6061. The Internal Z Slide is a vital part that keeps the spool from turning. This will allow our extreme anglers to take the TwinSpin to an even higher drag.