Hi I am looking to get a new reel about 2000 size reel and was wondering what your reccomendations would be. The reels i have on mind are Shimano Stradic Ci4, Daiwa Certate, Diawa Advantage, Pfleuger Supreme or Pfleuger arbor.
Any help is appreciated.

What target species are you after mate, and how much you looking at spending?

Fair price difference in those reels. I would suggest if you don't mind throwing the extra cash at it then it will be a reel for life if you look after it.

What will you mainly be using it for ??

I went through this recently and ended up with a Sol 2500 due to the extra line capacity and 7kg of drag it offered as well as other features. Simply put, I can use it for bream, trout through to snapper and castin lures from the beach for salmon. Was great down at Browns recently.
If I had more money to spend on it at the time I would have probable gone another model or 2 up in the daiwa range, can't fault them !

Very happy with the sol though.

FushLups wrote:


Beat me to it !!

I am using it to mainly chase estuary species. And i am looking to spend anywhere from 200 upwards.

in that nice mid range.. i cant fault my Sol, ive not fished with the upper reels.. but cannot fault the Sols! dual spools good casting smooth flowing reels. and great line capacity.

I'm with Jagger, daiwa has always been a cut above for me and I love my sol 2500 for the versatility, 1 spool with 4kilo braid the other with 8 and I'll have a crack at anything.

Also that sexy orange finish just grows on ya

I'll 4th that on the Sol mate

I'm a shop and 'feel' type of guy... of one feels better for some reason then sweet... of course the danger is you 'feel' something out of your price range!!!

voogoofish wrote:


All too true !!

jagger wrote:



ive had a few weekends like that..

Do yourself a favour and buy a second hand 2500 certate Hyper or a second hand exist 2506 or something like that.

Will still cost you 400 or so but will be swearword beginning with S hot!!.

If your not keen on the sexy orange of the sol (I am a fan) you could get a caldia kix custom. These things have 7kilo of drag and are basically a sol.

cgi.ebay.com/Daiwa-Caldia-KIX-2508-Custo...84db09#ht_1827wt_704

But splash the cash and go for this

cgi.ebay.com/Daiwa-Certate-Hyper-Custom-...d4613c#ht_6235wt_890

Without following the crowd....
I have a SOL 2000 and am very pleased with it.
That said, I have had a Shimano Exage 2500 for a few years now and even after giving it a fair bit of punishment without a huge amount of TLC it is still smooth, strong and in great order.
I recently got a Stradic 3000. It looks & feels great, it takes more line than the SOL 2000 (though it is smaller, but heavier), I'm yet to take it out for a field test yet though.
Q: Which one's my favourite without considering the price?
A: SOL.

Cheers.

JUST FOUND THIS. DUDE THIS IS A STEAL.

I SHOULD BUY THIS MYSELF.

cgi.ebay.com/Daiwa-LUVIAS-2500-Spinning-...66aa99#ht_2304wt_704

Okay thats my last link.

TWO WORDS. LUVIAS AND LUVIAS

mines a Sol3000, havnt used the smaller version.. but woudl love to upgrade my Excellor/sahara's to a sol 2000-2500 at some stage