New Electric Reel for Monster Fish – DAIWA Seaborg 500MJ

Have you tried electric reel fishing yet? Those electric reels used to use for deep sea bait fishing, as you need to use heavy sinkers at the 50 – 100m, or more of depth, and need to keep the right range to get fish bites. To do that, electric reels are essential to see how deep your rigs are, and auto-winding so you won’t be tired too much even if you keep drop and wind up your rigs hundred times.

Now, new electric reel from DAIWA will be out – with powerful motor, especially for “Monster” fish, DAIWA Seaborg MJ500.

Mega Monster Megatwin

This reel is targeted, especially for strong species such as Kingfish, Amberjack, Tuna, etc.

Therefore DAIWA’s powerful motor “MagMax Motor” is used to this Seaborg MJ500. This contains Special Neodymium Magnet with special power tuning only for 500MJ.

Torque and power is much different from previous models.

Another installed feature is called MegaTwin-Pro, which can switch speed / power gear easily with reducing of shock when gear is changed.

ATD, Automatic Drag System is of course installed, so smooth start of dragging protects you from sudden big fish bites.

High Usability Technology

This Seaborg 500MJ also has Jog Power Lever, that let you control all the movement by thumb really easy. On / Off clutch, Jog winding can be controlled just with one hand thumb, so you can control how to fight with big fish instantly, as much as you want.

Spec and Release Date

This is only one model as below, and will be released on March, 2019.

ModelDrag (kg)MAX Retrieve Power (kg)Gear RatioWeight (g)Capacity
Braided (lb-m)
Price (yen)
500MJ23963.698060-400 68-300124,000

* All product information and images are basically from DAIWA official website.

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