gentlemen ladies in anyone in between I welcome you all and today I'll be
getting up close and personal with the latest and greatest iteration of
Shimano's well known been around forever Shimano static and this my friends is
quite possibly the most important spinning real release that Shimano's
come out with in a long time damn at now this was ordered off of the eBay's
shipped direct from malaysia i ordered it on saturday it's now wednesday and
when I receive the tracking it said like within minutes of ordering it'll be here
but you know 10:30 in the morning on Wednesday and here we are at exactly
10:30 it came into male 1022 and here we have the 2500 sized 5.3 to 1 gear ratio
Shimano static F l have the schematic more bubble wrap on the interior to
protect it in the shipping we have some shimming washers and you have some tape
usually this tape is used to protect the real foot although this may actually be
better suited to keep the line on the spoiler I'm slipping a fuse and braid
and that's it nothing else on the inside at all whatsoever and of course the
handle so this is gonna be a quick unboxing and analysis I'm not going to
do a teardown in this video but I'm gonna follow this one up shortly oh
that's nice with a direct comparison to the FK and we're gonna compare it also
to the ballistic and whatnot all right so this this plunger slides and if you
kind of reverse thread it see how you can remove that if you ever
need to clean out over there well one thing I notice right away one piece
there's no hinge something that died Oh has been doing for a while
there's no need for it to really collapse to be honest but you just take
the handle off genuine that's a new sticker
that's pretty nice
way
the mic to it so you guys can hear when I'm killing buttery smooth
nice and slow oscillation stroke and it has a very tall this again 2500 size one
of the selling features of the new fk-ik sorry the new FL versus the FK is the
taller long strokes pool that was found on the older Stella's I suspect the 4k
was the the taller spool version let me grab the 4k so this was the taller spool
this is almost I don't want say long cast but essentially that's what it was
it was a super tall spool for a 4k size reel and what that allows for is when
you make a cast as a lines being peeled off the spool it changes direction off
as it comes up the spool fewer times per inch of line and that that allows for
less turbulence going through the long-delayed line guides and longer
casts how about that and know on and off and to reverse switch so there's a one
less point for water to get in or debris to get in what a nice real house the
drag clicker sound
looks familiar down here police in this area you have a rubber lips seal on the
main shaft here now alcoholically on stripers online he had received his two
days ago and he already submerged it in the fish tank for 60 seconds and found
out just how not waterproof this reel is water got inside the body so this is not
a real it can be submerged in any size but what it will do is assuming it's
like the FK it'll hold up a little bit to exposure to salt splashes and just
that kind of external water but you high-pressure submersions so
theoretically haven't tested it haven't put any time on it it should hold up as
you would expect a ballistic with the mag seal and yeah this is a a nice real
has a long cast pool it's a 5.3 to 1 gear ratio which is only available
unfortunately overseas and I'm glad it is I mean I wish of all things
if Shimano would offer multiple gear ratios in the 2500 or 3000 sighs I wish
they offered to I've been fishing at 3,000 Stella for a long time it's got
the higher gear ratio I find that the lower gear ratio for my fishing since
I'm not using it as a drop shot reel I prefer the lower gear unfortunately with
the largemouth bass market pretty much driving all import decisions for most
reels most people want that higher gear ratio
so they can reel back up real quick and get pitch out another cast with the drop
shot whereas the foam fish and jerk baits or from dragon bottom
I want the slower gear ratio and everybody that I have talked to
everybody I know personally they prefer the lower gear ratio so or Trinity
if you want the 5.30 one you got to get it from overseas which has pretty much
always been a case so yeah it's a really nice real super smooth out of the
box it's brand new I know it hasn't put any time on it and you know I'm curious
I'm a big fan of double paddle handles as you can see here this handle here
costs the same amount as this reel just to give you an idea this is a you Maya
magnesium double paddle handle designed for this Stella F I and it looks like it
threads on mm-hmm as it can hit the frame oh yeah oh yeah
and if you look closely here I look at the center screw see how it stays
perfectly centered there's no drift that Center axis stays perfect they'll let
you know that everything throughout the center axis is in line I've seen reels
in the past where you can see that kind of wobble around a little bit so we have
a carbon fiber direct stack which I believe is also found in the 2500 I'm
not gonna really do a full teardown but I do want to inspect that to see if
that's the case
nope felt on the 2500 and is felt yeah well all right it will CFD 3000 still a
high school if it's just for gits and shiggles looks like it does so far wow
that's neat
we turned it as quickly as possible I wanted to see if this fits on the Stella
it looks like it fits it doesn't bump doesn't rub I'll have to split some
lines see if it works the reason why I did that is because
alcoholically on strippers on line pointed out that it does indeed fit and
I'm not taking anything away from him I'm not doubting him at all anyway just
wants to find out firsthand because I have the two reels side-by-side so why
not beautiful real a lot of Stella technology found its way into a $200
form factor and from what I understand this reel is not going to see an
increase in price in the US market which is nice I made the comment on one of the
message boards stating that if this reel found its way up into the $250 price
which if you use currency conversions compared to what the Australian market
selling this thing for it would come out to around 229 to 250 that would be
absolute travesty well yeah so the rotor design has changed a little bit versus
the FK and we'll see how solid it is oh wow that's a strong rotor and when we do
the teardown we're gonna weigh the rotors compared to the other one with a
5.3 to 1 gear ratio there really isn't any startup nurse that I can find which
I would assume would also be the case for the six point two to one
cosmetically has a rash guard that comes around and follows the entire base of
the reel look at that so you have this darker gunmetal
it's a beautiful reel like this reel it is one of the best-looking reels that
I've ever really come across very reminiscent of my old strat ik mg where
the original the original magnesium strategy only difference is I think this
silver is a little bit lighter but has the same kind of metallic a gunmetal
nice and clicky bail
everything about it seems very nice very smooth finish
beautiful so when we do just tear this down we're tear it down next to either a
ballistic or tattoo Allah we're going to compare it to the FK and we're a
compared to the Abu Garcia premier spinning real all around $200 reals it
goes without saying honestly guys does anybody else out there make a spinning
reel equal to that of Iowa and Shimano for freshwater applications I don't
think so I mean baitcasting reels are a lot
simpler so you have tons of competition out there but when you handle a Shimano
add Iowa and you compare to any other Abu Garcia pen it's they're just not
even in the same ballpark so I'm just gonna bring keep it simple I'm just
going to bring in the dial WA and I'm gonna bring in one outside or if the Abu
because we did the three the $300 13 fishing reel that thing was a complete
pile I mean for $300 so we'll just do a quick basic teardown and comparison
between these and then we're gonna go out and fish and see how it handles I
mean it's a strata guys Shimano wouldn't put this reel out if there any issues
with it some stones with the bail opening and stolen from Alan Hawks and
washers sliding out but until then thank you guys for showing up and checking out
this video I hope you guys enjoyed this one keep this as quick and simple as
possible and yeah lovely real really is nice sweet
shimmed very nicely a little bit of play it's just a little bit handle knob
pretty darn good
works for me take care guys tight lines I'll see you soon