Shimano NEW Stella SW Salt Water Spinning Fishing Reel (Model: STLSW14000XGC)

Features

• Hagane Body and Gear offer amazing strength and durability, featuring advanced technologies that reduce flexing and overall improving user experience
• Advanced coatings and finishes protect the reel from the harsh elements of saltwater fishing, ensuring reliability
• Improved casting performance allows for greater smoothness as well as greater control
• Features X-Protect, X-Rigid Bail, X-Rigid Gear, X-Rigid Handle, X-Rigid Rotor, X-Shield, X-Ship, and X-Tough Drag technologies

Stella SW has always lead the fishing world in durability, power and operability. New Stella SW builds on that tradition. Stella SW brings unmatched strength, reliability and ease of use to serious saltwater anglers. Featuring a HAGANE Body, Stella SW boasts a highly rigid metal construction. This means improved impact resistance and less body flex. At the heart of the reel, state of the art HAGANE Gears are cold forged for lasting durability and smoothness. Infinity Drive technology offers an improved winding experience, optimizing winding torque by 26%. Silent Drive further improves smoothness by eliminating worm shaft and drive gear play. An all new Shimano Heatsink Drag improves performance by transferring heat away from the spool, reducing spool surface temperature by up to 100 degrees. X-Protect and X-Shield ensure your investment is guarded from the harsh elements of a saltwater environment so you can fish with confidence. 2019 Stella SW is lighter, more powerful and more reliable than ever before.

Aero Wrap II: This two-speed oscillation system layers the line onto the spool in a crisscross pattern that reduces line-to-line friction for longer casts. Aero Wrap reels utilize a patented worm gear design to move the spool upward quickly and downward slowly to wind the line in a precise pattern, reducing friction, and giving smoother, longer casting ability.

Cross Carbon Drag: This drag material provides a wider range of drag settings, along with the smoothest Shimano drag performance ever

Hagane Body: The HAGANE Body is a metal reel body with high rigidity. The body stiffness and impact resistance virtually eliminates body flexing. The result transforms the angler's actions directly into cranking power. It's efficiency through strength.

Hagane Gear: With amazing strength and durability, the HAGANE Gear is at the very heart of the reel. Shimano, through the application of state-of-the-art technologies, gives you the long-lasting smoothness and pleasure that you feel when you first use a reel, over and over again. No cutting work is applied to the teeth of the drive gear. Instead the entire surface is calculated in minute detail by special 3D design and then formed by Shimano's cold forging technology. The result is assured resilience. It's the fruit of Shimano's inexhaustible pursuit for durability; the strength and power of forged metal continues to represent the fundamental concept of Shimano reels.

Heatsink Drag: A revolutionary structure located at the bottom of the spool, achieving overwhelming drag performance and improved durability. The heat sink generated by the drag section dissipates the heat generated outside the spool by about 50% to reduce the drag force drop due to heat. In addition, the "heat insulation sheet" which shuts off the heat flowing to the line on the spool, reducing spool line temperature by 30%.

IPX8 Waterproof Body: IPX8 Waterproof rating

Infinity Drive: The new main shaft supporting structure improves winding torque by 26% while allowing incredibly smooth and light rotation.

One Piece Bail: One-Piece Bail allows the line to travel unimpeded to the line roller. Its seamless design reduces friction and the change of tangles or cuts to the bail arm.

Propulsion Line Management System: The most obvious component of the Propulsion Line Management System is the new Propulsion spool lip design. Through tens of thousands of casting tests and computer simulations it has been determined that this new spool lip design provides longer casting distances than a standard spool lip design while preventing backlashes and wind knots from forming.

Rigid Support Drag: By strengthening the spool support of the main shaft, the play and fluctuation of the spool during drag operation are suppressed, allowing smooth drag delivery even under high load.

S A-RB: These bearings have been through the same process as your A-RB bearings, but feature shields on both sides of the bearings that reduce the possibility of salt or sand inhibiting the bearing's rotation.

Silent Drive: From the fundamental, whole body design to the most intricate parts of the drive train, including the drive gear, wormshaft, wormshaft pin and wormshaft gear, every piece has been carefully reviewed, and the smallest clearance gaps and wobbles have been eliminated to the highest tolerances.

Waterproof Drag: With the use of rubber gaskets the drag is sealed against intrusion of the elements such as water and dust.

X-Protect: By combining our water repellent coating and our specially designed, water channeling, labyrinth construction, X-Protect provides high-level water resistance without sacrificing light gear and rotor rotation.

X-Rigid Bail: The use of a large diameter titanium alloy wire loop increases the overall hardness. In addition to excellent toughness and impact resistance, titanium alloy materials bring unparalleled lightweight and corrosion resistance.

X-Rigid Gear: The thickness and stiffness of the reborn main gear are obvious to the naked eye with 20% thickness increase. In addition, a special surface treatment is applied to achieve a durability of up to 138% compared to conventional products. It is a strong gear that was born to win the big game against Saltwater, which is the heart of Stella SW.

X-Rigid Handle: New cold forged aluminum handle has a 35% increase in rigidity vs. previous resulting in more power under heavy load. The new one-piece shaft cover incorporates an aluminum outer shell and stainless steel core. This new configuration allows the shaft casing to thoroughly and accurately encase the top of the handle shank, resulting in increased rigidity of the entire handle.

X-Rigid Rotor: The shape and thickness of the aluminum rotor creates high rigidity that results in more fish fighting power. Increased mass of the aluminum rotor generates more inertia resulting in easier fishing of heavy jigs and high resistance lures.

X-Shield: By providing dependable sealing structures and gaskets at 12 critical locations throughout the reel body, we are able to create a water resistant structure that is highly reliable and durable. Ensuring that it can hold up when used in extreme saltwater conditions.

X-Ship: X-Ship provides improved gear durability. By supporting the pinion gear on both ends with bearings, the pinion gear maintains precise alignment with the drive gear. This means the gears will stay in the same position under the heaviest loads. The added benefit is that friction between the spool shaft and gear are eliminated. This will enhance the casting performance of the reel with lighter lures, and allow for longer casts.

X-Tough Drag: X-Tough Drag with its dramatically enhanced smoothness, control and toughness anticipates the vigorous speed of Blue-Fin Tuna and Giant Tuna.

Manufacturer: Shimano

Specifications:

Family Type: Saltwater Spinning
Mono Line Capacity (#Test/yd): 12/555, 16/360, 20/260
Weight (oz): 23.8
Bearings: 13+1
Gear Ratio: 6.2:1
Retrieve Per Crank (in): 53
PowerPro Braid (lb/yds): 50/400, 65/315, 80/240
Max Drag (lb): 55

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