I suggest you send them to me for some good old fashion on the water fish catching testing.

personaly... I don't think that test was really much of a test

All you have shown is that a drag can handle speed.
Instead, start with 15ft of line at your feet. Allow the bike/ATV to speed away and pick the line off the ground and gain speed. Then as line is zipping put it to the reel.

on the video the line is tight and the reel is linked up so it sees the acceleration. with line at your fetl the drag will have to start from 0 to say 15mph, with now acceleratiopn but rather full force. i feel that would be a better test of what the drag could handle.

A good point, Ramcatt, but is the 15 feet of slack a test of the reel or the fisherman... I mean, should the slack be there in the first place?

Take the Rogue to the "David Letterman" show, hook it to a watermelon, and drop it off of the Ed Sullivan Theater, and hold on!

i think for one of the gear tests you do you should test the legibility of the ugly stik commercial, seeing if a rod could last a trash compactor.

Power tools

All I know is that looks like fun, and I wish I had that in my job description.

I'd like to see how all fly boxes hold up to a good drop in some whitewater.....all boxes must have the full gammit of flies, from dries to weighted buggers, and a small folded piece of paper in there with a name and phone number of the "owner". Send it 200 yards down stream and see how they and their contents fare. Then do a drop test on some rocks or other hard surfaces to see how each box holds up to a beating. This will simulate forces similar to the ones I exert on my boxes when I grab my vest by the scruff and toss it in the back of the car.

Was walking through the local sportsmand warehouse in the Springs looking at the boxes and thought an old front load washing machine would work nicely for testing boxes...lol