I bought 2 Curado 200Es last week and took them on their maiden voyage yesterday.  I have never had a stock reel that would cast like they do.  I have them on Gloomis IMX 843c rods and 10# mono.  I think the line would have too much stretch for a good hookset at the end of the cast so I made shorter casts when actually fishing.

The situation I have is one of the reels though being sliky smooth on the retrieve, has a slight tick on every revolution of the handle.  I am wondering about a burr on a gear tooth and should I fish it for a while to see if it goes away.   

BTW:  Yes I am a very picky person about my stuff and none of my other 20 Shimano reels have any kind of ticks in them.

Please advise.

it is likely a wormgrear/pawl issue. could be the idler gears also. since you just bought them brand new, i would say return it for another one.

OK I went to the boat and pulled out both new reels.  I cut the bait off the one with the tic.  I cranked the handle at different speeds and there is no tic so I guess it must be something that only shows up with a load on the reel.

I did the same with the other new reel and it seems to turn a bit easer than the one that showed the tic yesterday. 

I know if I took it back with the infor I have Mike and Sharon, at the reel counter, would give me a breathalizer test for sure.

Since the last post I pulled out a couple of hundred feet of line and rewound it through a big phone book with tension.   There is no tic at all in the reel now.  I guess that I'll hold off till I fish it another time.

Hoppy I sure hope so.  I don't have real deep pockets and when I spend that much on a reel I sure don't want anything but SMOOOOTH.   I sold 2 Curado BSF and 2 Citicass and was still $100 short for these 2 reels.