Daiwa MUGENN-ISHIDAI50HD

[Minnow]

This reel might be the answer to the COW tuna jigging reel.
Want one? You better place an order now coz only 100 will be made. Price about $1500

Left side cover, Handle arm, Handle shaft, and Drag stopper are the products made of titanium.
The diameter of a gear shaft is 10mm. (A standard model is 8mm. )
A drag tension can be adjusted according to a drag stopper attachment position.
(The drag stopper attachment position of six places )
If a handle is turned, drag power are up.
It changes to the drag tension set up when the handle was returned to the stopper position.

Model Gear Ratio Drag Weight Line capacity Ball bearing
40HD 4.9 15-20kg 725g PE 8.0-280m 16
PE10.0-200m
PE12.0-180m

50HD 4.9 15-20kg 760 PE 8.0-360m 16
PE10.0-260m
PE12.0-230m

[ksong]

50HD
27 oz reel with 33 - 44 lbs drag. Pretty impressive for a star drag reel.
It looks it is possible to adjust drag while fighting with drag stopper sttachment position even it is a star drag reel. It will be a big help to shorten fighting time. But it is a little bit expensive.

[Grescobia]

My worst fear is that my wife will sell my reels for what I told her I paid for them

[jureal]

I see that we all have the same wife problems.

[Ragman]

Except for TJ! LOL

Rue knows everything...

[BretABaker]

Originally Posted by Grescobia

My worst fear is that my wife will sell my reels for what I told her I paid for them

LOL

[Pope]

I waiting for all of you to die. Come over for dinner tonight!

[DeepBlueGulf]

Anybody have any idea about the flat plate and bulge on the clicker side of the reel? Wondering if the reel has double drags, one on each side of the spool or something? Looks pretty interesting, but waayyy out of my budget range.

DBG

[royb]

The bulge on the left side plate look very simaler to the side plate on the Daiwa Tournament Ishidai Z, which containes an electronic line counter.

[fishr1989]

it's a digital line counter
you can see the reset button on the left picture on the right of the bulde