My first Daiwa reel. It is the smoothest reel I have ever used to date. I will get another Daiwa in future. So far has handled very well with reds, flounder & trout. Looking forward to some snook fishing. Casting is amazing distance even with light lures.

Purchased two 3000 sized reels. Very smooth and balanced. One real broke twice within 12 months. The other one broke once within 12 months. Warranty service not good. Slow and unresponsive. Went back to shimano.

i bought the 6500 reel for slow pitch jigging and have used it hard and caught many fish on it now. the reel has a very smooth drag as well as a huge line capacity unfortunately the spring holding the anti reverse slipped and was dragging on the gears making a ticking noise when reeling after a month of intense jigging the anti reverse still worked though. another problem is because of the anti reverse system it is not instant like some other reels i have used causing a clunking noise in the gears when jigging, so far no more problem after i fixed the spring after the first month.

This reel is butter smooth, but the weight is a significant difference. I like to use this reel when I'm not going to be casting over a 5 hour trip, the couple of ounces extra on this one makes a difference. Other than that it's solid and has tons of fight power.

this thing is heavy, and i usually fish a slammer which everyone says is the heaviest. i disagree. these do not put out the drag power of the slammer either. they are smooth and have good torque. but i really think the slammer out preforms it. the new mq model is nice as well, very smooth.

Just bought this and paired it with a St Croix Med/Light rod... love the combo of the two- this Daiwa reel is where its at for the money!!! Thanks TackleDirect for making it easy as always

I’m exceptionally thrilled with my Saltist 4000 and 4500. Thursday I stopped at my local bait store looking for a reel to match my 10’6†rod. My man showed me a couple reels that I didn’t like. He asked how the Saltist 4000 held up with my Tsunami 9’ Trophy II. Its a phenomenal product. Now I’ve got two reels from Diawa that performed superbly.

Very smooth reel, both the drag and the action of the reel

Happy with purchase.

living in south Florida I tear up a lot of reels fishing for big tarpon and alligators. only the toughest survive especially on gators.the manual bail just adds more strength in this reel. we are hard on tackle down here and diawa just made the odds better for success.

I got the 5000 two years ago, it is a great reel for chunking clams or mackerel from the beach for stripers and blues. A bit heavy for tossing plugs and eels all night and not durable enough for consistent dunks. I have caught many 150 pound sharks on this from the beach and it handles those great. Drag is exceptional. That being said it can not be fished hard in the surf. I was using the saltx as my wetsuit rock hopping reel and one night that went down so I switched to the saltist. The reel now sounds like an old penn but still performs well. I would assume a few more nights of fishing like that and the reel would lock up. This reel is a great once a trip dunker and for the money is unrivaled.

So far so good for this reel. Like the aluminum parts much more than carbon fiber or graphite.

Now I want a saltist mq

Great reel

To be honest I really didn't need another reel, but I'm going on a multi-day tuna trip and wanted a backup to one of my old favorites the Original Saltist STT6500H. I thought I was going to get one of the other brands, but after looking into the new Saltist 6500 and at this price... I was sold. My problem now is keeping away from the Saltiga Spinning reels.