8 The Best Salt Water Reels

Oh, that is some serious, drag peeling action today. I want to show you why I love the new cast king megatron reel. We recently picked up the new megatron spinning wheel from kastkings. We wanted a very versatile heavy duty reel, especially when it comes to bigger fish in fresher salt water, such as pike, bass, musky or in salt water. When you’re talking tuna, bonito halibut flounder, all sorts of big game fish.

The first thing I noticed about this reel that I loved was that the main frame of the reel is actually made out of aerospace aluminum, which makes this a very rigid reel. It also has aluminum handle an aluminum spool and a giant bale wire to make sure when you’re fighting, bigger fish or small fish. The body of this is not going to flex or break megatron, also comes with a braid ready spool, which means that you can use monoline or braided line.

When you use braid, you need to have a special kind of spool so that under tension, the braid doesn’t actually spin on the spool itself, and this spool will prevent that because it’s braid ready, depending on the size reel you get you’ll, have up to 46 pounds of drag. Not only do these pack a ton of drag, but it’s a triple disc carbon drag, which means a very smooth drag when you’re fighting a big fish or you’re on light line when the fish pulls or shakes its head, it’s going to pull, drag, smooth, meaning you’ll lose less fish.

These reels come from 2 000 to 6 000 size and the biggest size holds 300 yards of 80 pound braided line. That means you could take that offshore. A really really large game fish to make sure that drag and everything’s running smooth this reel also comes with eight plus one bearings. What that means is eight double shielded: stainless steel bearings inside the reel and one anti-reverse bearing so when you’re reeling in and you stop that drag is set.

You’re not gonna have any backlash when you’re cranking in the number. One reason why we love this new reel, so much is because of its extreme versatility and how heavy duty this reel is to put this reel to the ultimate test. I recently took the smaller 3000 size, offshore fishing for bonito and yellowtail, and if you don’t know what a bonito is, it’s remember the tuna family. It is a very, very hard fighting fish.

We were able to land 8 to 10 pound bonito, which is insane for this size reel. We also have used this in short, salt, water for halibut fishing and it handled that fantastic, and we also plan on doing lots of fresh water bass and pike and muskie fishing too. I hope that helped you guys understand more about this awesome new reel from cass king megatron go check it out on amazon. Not only is it super versatile guys, but it is super, affordable, anyways until next time, fish on so so.

Hey guys, it’s Josh over J and H. This is the pen spin, Fischer VI 5500, spinning reel announced at ICAST 2018, the revamp of the spin Fisher and big improvements. This reel, the gearing, is totally changed. They went from press gears to CNC gears where each one is made individually and it just makes a world of difference if you’ve ever picked up the slam or three. You know what I’m talking about, because this is the same platform as that, so much smoother. So much more rigid less.

You know playing it just a much better built reel that you’re gonna have a lot of fun with so the main get in the spin fish or other than the new gearing is, of course, that it’s sealed just like the old one. So you have seals throughout so if it gets sprayed. If it gets, you know, dunked accidentally Saul gets hit with salt or sand. You don’t have to worry about it. This thing’s just going to keep performing. It’s got a rugged, all aluminium body on it and it’s just built to take abuse and be fished all the time and just like the previous generation, that’s exactly what it does.

25 pounds of drag at max weighs in at eighteen point five ounces and it’s going to hold over 300 yards of 40 pound test. Braid nice smooth trip right there. It doesn’t trip over easily. This isn’t just like you know: gonna fall over on you, it’s gonna ramp up, so that you can really you know. So it’s not. You don’t have to worry about casting this thing and tripping and flipping over and your your line breaking off and losing that lure drag system. Ht 100 drag system million different settings right there, and this is the the jump up in size, 4 pen, so the big jump from 4500 to 5500.

This is where it happens. So this is the first one that has the nice. You know oval football shaped handle on it really comfortable, bigger fits in your hand, really nice and it’s just a smooth, smooth real. You know it’s! It’s! The next generation that’s been Fischer that you’ve been fishing with for year and year after year after year, and it’s just better- you know everything about. It is better retail. This is just about $180 and if you’re looking for this size, spinning reel I’m telling you this is really you’re getting a lot for your money.

You really are it’s a really well-built reel. It’s gonna last you a long time and you’re. Just gonna have a lot of fun with it and you can fight big fish with a no problem. You know so fill it up with braids hit the water and go just have a blast. You know. So this is the brand new pen spin, Fisher, Vi 5500, spinning reel. You can go to JH calm and get one for yourself.

Hey guys it’s Josh over J and H. Today we are looking at the pen spin, Fischer, VI, 9500, spinning reel you drop short spinning reel from pen, so many more guys are fishing with spinning reels offshore and they love it jigging and popping, and all that kind of stuff- and this reel is just huge. You know it’s gonna hold a lot of line over 670 yards of 65, pound test, braid and I’m sure that if you use the thinner braid, then you know there’s standard braid, so I’m like a max Quattro, you’re gonna get even more line on there or you know a heavier test and get over 500 yards on there.

You know 80 at least weighs in at 37 ounces. It’s so big I! Don’t want to be off the screen here, but it’s just made for for offshore. You want to go tuna fishing. You know medium size tuna. With this thing absolutely a lot. We had a big run of bluefin guys casting fat. This would be the perfect reel for that four point: seven to 1 gear ratio, so you can cast with it. You can get with it and it’s gonna retrieve about 40 inches of line with every turn.

The main change to this reel to spin Fisher 6 is the gearing they’ve now switched over to CNC gears, which is what they did last year with the slammer 3, and it just makes a world of difference. It’s so much smoother, so much more precise and just kind of a better experience with it. Nice long aluminum handle there with the the football knob which is really comfortable in your hand, and it’s sealed just like last year’s models.

So it’s got seals throughout. You have to worry about water getting in there if it gets sprayed. While it’s in the gunnel don’t worry about it. It’s just gonna keep on going and that’s sort of the hallmark of the spin Fisher series is that you fish these things you beat on it can all loom in construction, and it just keeps on going and that’s what anglers love about it. You know just keep performing so, if you’re looking for a big offshore spinning reel again, maybe you want to do some jigging.

You want to do some popping or throw into some some tuna. You know you don’t want to break the bank. This is this is just an awesome reel for that at 250 bucks. It’s you know something. You’ll have for the next 10 or 15 years, really well built and fun to fish, so check it out. It’s the pen, spin Fisher, VI 9500, spinning reel head over to JH comm and get one for yourself right now.

Drop the bigger bait down to the bottom hi my Christ Penn brand manager here to tell you about a new, exciting product launch. We have come in fall 2018. This is the spin Fisher VI. This is a sixth generation spin Fisher and a line of legendary spinning reels, and it’s now tougher than ever before, but before we get into the details on what we did to strengthen the reel up and make it even more durable.

Let’s talk about the overall assortment, so you can see here. I have the smallest reel and the largest reel. So this is our 2500 size and our 10 500. The 2500 is actually new to the assortment. It’s our smallest sealed reel. Yet in previous generations, we’d started at a 3500. We get a lot of requests, especially from the inshore and kayak guys for a smaller reel.

So we added the 2500 in the essaouira and of course we have all the standard sizes in between thirty-five forty-five. Fifty five hundred and sixty five hundred everything all the way up to the big boy, the ten thousand five hundred. We also added in some new sub series. It’s a very wide arrangement of reels here. We’ve got three long cast models, so we’ve got a 7500, a 6500 and at 5500 we also have a live line or reel.

So we do an eighty-five hundred sixty-five hundred forty-five hundred and a 2500 to add, on top of that, for the surf guys we’re doing a 45 hundred and a sixty-five hundred in bale list. So there’s no kit needed these reels come you know, built from the factory as a bailiffs reel. The reels have the familiar black and gold cosmetics. The standard features of line capacity rings, the super line, spool, pin the reels feature a metal body and metal side plate on all sizes, all models from a durability standpoint.

One of the major improvements we made on the spin Fisher is we’ve gone to our new CNC, gearing 5500 and below use a machined, aluminum main gear 6500, and up use a machine that brass main gear and that CNC gear system very durable, they’re machined one. At a time our proprietary cnc, gearing is precision cut from extremely durable metal to create a gear system.

That’s both smooth, out-of-the-box and durable over the life of the reel. The CNC gears need to be able to take some abuse like this, then how that feel not real, perfect. That’s been Fisher’s, just what you need to get those out to another major improvement over the prior generation of spin Fisher’s is that we’ve gone to a higher rated ceiling, so this is gonna, be an IP x5, sealed system, and you can see it’s stamped right there on the rotor loud and proud and IP x5 is an ingress protection rating.

You see it on a lot of marine electronics. You even see it on your iPhone’s. It basically determines the level at which the reel is sealed. One of the number one reasons that reels get sent back to the repair shop is because everybody likes to spray. The reels down at the end of the day with the hose. The reality is, is that by doing that, you’re pushing salt sand and grit into the reel, which eventually works its way into the bearings and gears.

What we’ve done here is: we’ve sealed this reel to IPX five standards so that when you inevitably spray them down at the end of the day, you’re not pushing salt and sand in there. The ingress protection rating IPX five on the spin Fisher six means that the real can be sprayed from all directions without being able to penetrate the gearbox or drag system.

On the new spin Fisher six we’ve gone to the standard style, HT 100 drag system. So it’s basically in the harbor of the spool. Like you see almost standard front drills, we were able to still maintain a lot of the Himax drags, but we were able to reduce a little bit of weight out of the reel as well. I check a hundred so basically tested like running a hundred miles.

A line off the reel high-tech is by HT and then 100 is the amount of miles you can run without changing or destroying the drag system. In these reels, pretty fish here pretty fish. Now all of our drag systems are what we call wet so they’re all grease, which definitely keeps dirt debris sand. Salt all that stuff from working its way into the system.

It also allows the drag system to function longer, smooth air versus a dry system right and I go out here on the roof. You need that real to be able to put the brakes on this bit. We call therefore king of the reed, so one of the last major improvements I’d like to talk about is specifically around the live liner system. What we’ve done is this reel is also I px5, sealed just like the regular front, drag models, but to our knowledge, this is the only sealed live liner on the market.

We’ve simplified the live liner system in the new spin Fisher six. The rear switch now has four positions that increase the amount of drag while in live liner mode, which is then disengaged. With a turn of the handle to fight your fish, the overall system can be adjusted using a set screw in the rear housing. By updating this new system, we were able to build a reel that meets IP, x5 standards and simplifies its use on the water tide starts ripping your bait starts.

Moving with the tide you just bump it down a notch and you’re back in business tide starts ripping even harder. You come down another adjustment and you’re still fishing versus having to reset adjust. You may pull it on dragging all that, so you actually so that’s great for drift. Fishing sail fishing. That’s the full lineup of swim. Fisher v is there gonna be available to fall 2018.

The full lineup check them out at your local retailer.

Over here with tackle direct ICAST 2018 first morning of the show we’re going through the new spin Fisher VI reels, we’ve talked about some of the major features on the main reels. We want to talk about. The live liner, specifically so I’ve got the size range down here. For you to look at, we’ve got a 2500 which is a new size. That’s our smallest, live liner size, yet is that a 4500 6500? What’s? What makes these live liners so special is that it’s now sealed to the same rating that the regular front drag reels are skilled to so this is also sealed to a tight gives five sealed rating.

It’s stamped right there on the road or third-party verifiable, and what that means is that the reels can be sprayed from any direction without water getting into the gear system or the drag system. So when it gets into the gear box on a live liner, real there’s a lot of really intricate parts in here water, getting water intrusion into a live liner is one of the worst things that could have it and almost guarantees failure over a period of time.

So what we’ve done is we’ve sealed the back end of this reel completely and we’ve made it a little simpler to use versus a traditional live liner system. So usually you have a dial on the back. These don’t really have the dial. They just have a lever that comes down to various positions and you can hear it click into position, and so what that does is it gives you a 25, 50 75 or a hundred percent of the live line or drag system and a lot of leather drives.

So the system is just a little HD 100 drag system. That’s tough back here in the back. This little lever puts pressure on this little drag system and what it does is gives you a very, very light free spool up here. So let’s just take it down to what I would call the 25%. You can see it’s super light, so you can imagine a live bait being able to take lines, swim freely or even a dead bait on the bottom, making sure that it doesn’t have a lot of pressure on it so that that fish can pick it up and take it away without feeling the hook and then give you time to set the books.

So these new live liners, that’s a completely revolutionary design for Penn, something we’ve never done on a live liner and we’ve offered. We offer it in four sizes: check them out and tackle directors fault. You.

Hi out there in real T’s land, this is Steve Carson here in the pan. Booth in beautiful Orlando at the very exciting ICAST show all the new products for fishing for the year 2019 and beyond. Our here, I want to show you guys one of the most exciting things that there is, which is the new pen spin, Fisher, six or spin Fisher VI. As some people say it spinning reels for just about any kind of fishing.

You can do with spinning reels. They have it covered. They range from a little 2500 sized at about 100 39 99, all the way up to the giant 10 500 size at about 200, 49, 99 and everything in between every kind of variation and specialty that you would want to catch more fish. These things have one thing that they all have. Besides the name spin Fisher and it’s the biggest change from last year- is that all of them now have the C&C machine gears that will go will cut to a close-up on the of these a little bit later, but the smaller sizes have the aluminum CNC gears, the bigger sizes have the brass CNC gears so much smoother and, most importantly, much longer lasting when you’re catching a lot of big fish every size, every style all has this.

They also have and will cut in closer to this later, to the IPX five sealing rating and Google is your friend. You can look that up. That’s an industry standard for marine electronics, watches cameras, etc. It tells you exactly how waterproof they’re going to be so for those of you that surf fish or fishing kayaks things like that. These are going to be very, very good for you.

They also have lightened them up quite a bit last year, depending on the model they’re anywhere from two to three ounces lighter per size. So if you like, the earlier spin, Fisher’s, you’re gonna like these even more there’s, also some really really fun variations, depending on what special kind of fishing that you do, the most popular one is going to be. What’s called the live liner, and these are instead of being adjusted back here, where you never have a quite right.

This is a four-step live liner that each click is 25% tighter, so that, if you’ve got it here, nice and loose because and the tide is slack and then suddenly the Sun the tide starts to run. It’s pulling your line out, just click, it one click and it’s 1/4 tighter, no matter what, whenever you turn the handle, now you’re back in gear, so all you, people that fish cut baits lie baits, that kind of thing you’re going to love that, for you surf anglers or just you anglers that haven’t quite been able to get out where the fish are.

If you can just get out much further, you detection them. There’s going to be the log cast series which has a long tall school everything else being equal, it’s hard to quantify exactly they’re gonna, give you about ten to as much as twenty percent extra casting distance. If you’re lucky enough that that doesn’t matter don’t worry about these, but if an extra 10 or 15 percent of casting distance will catch you more fish, you are gonna, love them.

Okay, that’s called the long cast again. There’s multiple sizes on these I can’t show you all of them in the amount of time that we have allocated something that you South Florida anglers, probably won’t use too much, but I have to tell you about it because I’d be remiss and maybe you’ll, be visiting the Northeast at some point, and that is the no Vail style very popular up there again you can you can email, your cousins or your your uncles up there ask them.

Why do they like the no-bail style, but they do several sizes and these two they also have all of them every size. Every style has the HT. 100 drag pins, high-tech 100 drag material they have, and this is how they lighten them up. They used to have the slammer style, drag in the bottom of the spool. It was thick and heavy, and now they’ve moved it back to the top of the spool, a more traditional position and really being able to lighten the reels up again.

There’s a wide variety of gear ratios retrieve speeds just depending on what you need for your type of angling, but unless you’re fishing for really big tuna or really big sharks or really tiny trout. Everything in between those two extremes, one of the new pen spin Fisher’s, will cover you, one hundred thirty nine. Ninety five to two hundred and forty nine. Ninety five late fall of 2018 available at a store near you.

I cast 2018 I am here with Mike Rice, who have been told you are everything fin. You know it all. If you are the smartest man walking when it comes to tennis now, I’ve been here a little while yeah we sell a lot of spin Fisher dreams. Yes, the sixth generation, it looks reminds me a lot of the slammer. It looks a lot like the slammer and we pulled a lot of that technology down from the slammer right into the news.

Finfisher VII. So this is the sixth generation and this trails been around for almost 60 years and the new version will be out all 2018, so look for it around October. You know late October, early November right, so some of the things some of the improvements we’ve made on this series. I should start by saying this. Iv we’ve added a new 25-hundred size in violin up.

So this is our smallest sealed real yeah. This is one of the biggest ass that we got from the previous generation slotted fissures. We didn’t have a really little bitty, you know kayaking or ten pound, braid, speckled, trout, so real right. So we added 2 500 into it. You feel it it’s super lightweight! Oh yeah, it’s really smooth! So what you feel in there is the gearing in their wheels.

So the smaller reels we use an aluminum drive gear on the larger reels. We use a flash drive here and a brass pin in here. These are machine, one-at-a-time, premium material, really tight tolerances. So you can feel how smooth and 3d is yeah, but recently these metals right here are so strong. The life of the real, the real estate, smooth, very smooth and very durable Wow, very young, but the the other, the other major change to the rules that we’ve improved the ceilings as well.

So we’ve gone to a IP x5 seal rating. It’s a right down the debtor that basically means that the real can be sprayed from 360 degrees without getting water inside the gearbox. Our drag system, which some people are hosed on the end of the day, are not pushing stuff inside the real life into the bearings and the gears, and all that so just just the real just last longer right.

Well, it’s really the most durable finish and beefy drags still like a heavy. Our 8100 drag. It’s not the drag under the school like you’ve seen on previous generation, so we pulled that out to knock down the weight a little bit. These are it’s just a standard drag some of us out of school, but these reels are anywhere up to 10 to 15%, lighter than the last generation super light and I know you got on the live liner yep.

What now when’s this guy over? That’s a long cast wheel, so the long pass rules work really originated over seas in the European art market, they’ve kind of gravitated to the surf casting market right. So any time you’re trying to get extra distance, whether it’s on the bridge veer off the beach right. These reels give you that extra. They give you about 10 to 15% extra casting business right, and they do that because of the wide armor, the very tall armor and the way the slow oscillation works.

It just lays the line parallel right. You can see how slow that spool moves up and up it’s crazy that lays that Lionel. Parallel, it gives you extreme passing distance. You know if you’re ever on the beach- and you guys know everybody’s cast into the same fish, it’s nice to be able to get 50 or sure keep your bait in the water a little longer so yeah.

These are the long path. So we do these in fifty five hundred sixty five hundred and seventy pounds yeah. These are so we’re. Looking at October, you guys gotta check this out, live to fish, calm. Ninety nine, forty, two 752 and Hudson I can’t wait for these things to come out. I’m excited Mike I, really appreciate it. They serve an educated man.

Now, yes, sir thanks so much.

Action very fast retrival rate line spools on very evenly and cast off spools smallly from patented spool design drag is very nice and smooth nice looking reel beats out my shimano reel in quality abit as far less exorcism highly recommend. My first cast king reel, my dad collected hundreds and hundreds of reels and was impressed, then shocked to see the low cost had one issue with real kastking customer service was friendly, fast and mditly resolved issue by replacing with a new one.

All I needed was a wart very satisfied. Customer cass king rocks this reel has been working out great. I am always saltwater fishing in the inlet and creeks in the kayak, I’m using the 3000 series, real fishing for redfish, trout, flounder drum and sheep’s head. I was looking for a saltwater reel in my budget that would withstand weekly trips out on the water and had the strength to fight some big redfish.

This cast king valiant eagle, 3000 spinning reel as smooth as butter. The bearings the bail the drag are all super smooth and feel very high quality. It has water resistant construction that keeps out moisture and debris. I had previously bought my son a cast king sharky 3, spinning combo, for much less than I paid for my saint croix rod alone. I was so impressed with the function and feel of that setup that I found myself picking it up before my saint croix shimano spinning setup, which cost three times as much as I have in that cast king combo.

As soon as I picked it up, I knew I was going to have a cast king for myself after using cast king’s, very informative website to research. What would best suit my needs? I purchased this cast king valiant eagle 3000. I love that the spool is braid ready and the reel is very lightweight. The carbon fibers add strength, so this reel should be very structurally sound. The only thing I wish they would change is that the handle can’t be loosened to fold down.

It has to be unscrewed and removed with its shaft id, rather be able to loosen and collapse it instead of removing it. When I put it in a case for traveling, I still love it, and I feel I’ve got a far better product for about one-third of the price of my best reels of the same size and power ill look at cast king. Before I buy anything else now, I am going to check out their saltwater products next.

This is a review for both 2000 and 1000 model. The 2000 reel feels good, but it’s not as smooth as the 1000 reel of the same model that I also have still a pretty good reel. Also when reeling in a fish there’s some noticeable clicks, not the bait clicker that sounds like something inside is hitting something it’s not supposed to hit every few turns or so of the spool. I did not have this issue with the 1000 version of the valiant eagle the 2000 reel as, however, still a very good reel and handles fish.

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