Well I think for the money you can't get that quality of a reel from any other manufacture. I just wish I had bought more when the yen was really weak against the dollar. I'm not hung up on a particular brand. I know Victor personally and he is all about Shimano reels. The Vanquish is a fine reel but it is about 130 bucks more than the Zenon. A 20 inch trout can really test a drag and the drag on the Zenon has the best I have seen. But to answer your question, Abu Garcia has closed the gap on Daiwa and Shimano. I just hope they continue on. Will be nice to see if they come out with a reel that really competes with the Stella and Exist. Time will tell.
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Decided to keep the reel. I was going to move the zenon on in order to get a new reel, but will hold on to it for now.
FYI, fishingshop.kiwi has the zenon 1000 and 2000 for $238 and I believe they have free shipping now for orders over $200
Zenon buy now, price start from US $237.94
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not a lot of action around here lately. anyone check out the airity st?
One of my buddies pre ordered one of the versions. I am thinking about getting the 1000 size exist sf. So that has me holding off right now.
I preordered the ST SF 2000SS-P. plan to pair it with a presso 61L.
Think I’m going to order a Vanquish C2500S to pair with my 75 Lunakia for bass fishing with ned rigs. Likely will put 4 lb line on there.
Thoughts on this setup? Or anyone have another reel suggestion?
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