For bass fishing ...

I bought a JDM Shimano Metanium for under $300. Same reel with a slightly different spool is $500 here.

https://fishing.asian-portal.shop/c...wgtr18AIVRRx9Ch2EfQC5EAQYAyABEgL-4PD_BwE

It’s been out on the lake 2-3 times this spring, but really I bought it to chase boiling stripers this summer.

Casts great with #30 Spectra but I did have to fine tune it on the water to prevent professional bird’s nests.

I’d do it again.

"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated." Thomas Paine