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SHIMANO

A name and a size

What this house covers here

A size 10000 Baitrunner freespool reel and a size 4000 front-drag spinning reel.

What their listings publish

Between the two: a size, the word Baitrunner, and a front drag. No ratio, no weight, no capacity, no bearing count, no drag figure, no retrieve per turn.

That is unusual enough to be worth stating plainly rather than complaining about. At the bottom of the spinning shelf the badge really is the specification — the 4000 is the cheapest reel there from a house anyone would recognise, and buyers are buying exactly that.

Where that leaves you

If you have used a Baitrunner before, a size is all you need: the mechanism is the one the whole freespool category was named after, and a 10000 is the size deep-water boat fishing takes.

If you have not, there is nothing on either listing to compare against the reels beside them — several of which publish a drag force, a capacity at two diameters and a centimetre figure for retrieve. Buy on the name knowingly, or buy one of those.

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