The new Shimano is now for the big reveal. Oh

You know what guys I'm sorry, I apologize this is metallic blue

cast King

Listens metallic blue

Think these bushings have tighter tones tolerances then the concept Z

it really does look that way and

Trust me yet. I have so much close-up footage of the bushings on those constant is ease

Yeah, this is much tighter tolerance

which probably is why I'll check I want to get it back together, but

I don't think there is any handling that get rock

So yeah guys this is this isn't this is looking good

I I like what I see a lot of times people think that dye wash Shimano high-end they make the good stuff

But they just phone it in for the cheap stuff

and

Five years ago, I would agree with it to be perfectly honest with you. They you know, they just basically

Said alright lose go ahead. Take over. You got us more now. You're gonna try

Gentlemen ladies in any one in between I welcome you all and today I will be unboxing

Tearing down and doing our customary overview of a brand spanking new

Wallet-friendly baitcaster from Shimano the brand new SLX now before we get started

I just want to say thank you very much to Josh over at J niche tackle who submitted this real I?

Knew what was coming down the pipe

I asked him yesterday if he could send one over and boom priority one day mail

I came at Saturday next day, and we're now going to crack this a box open and

Not metallic blue

That's a cast in goof if you guys did it see

they

All right, so did I miss the slot?

There we go

Very well hacked and no that's not metallic blue either

Hashtag cast King royal legend Elite. All right, so we have tape seal still there

Guys I'm curious just let you know my expectations of this reel are

Insert your favorite model of green Corrado here. This is what I hope Shimano is coming out with at $99

I know there's some controversy over what Corrado or what Green Corrado was the world's favorite, but

It's a nice little

schematic

No X shape, which

Tells me that it's a similar design to what you would find in the old Corrado

I think the new tranqs is don't have extra either which is that dual pinion supportive bearing and we have the

Mystery oil looks a little yellow or than normal. Maybe even a little thinner. I don't know you tell me

And that's pretty much it. So you have the

schematics and

We're not even look at this stuff

There's never anything useful

Shimano literature

It's bubble-wrapped. Oh

Wow, she's tiny

Wow, okay, okay

Very very slim I wasn't expecting it to be this compact

I just want to set the

Tension knob to where I prefer it

Yeah, it has that nice high pitch were

That a lot of the the higher inch models have out of the box

Big cushy knobs like you would find in a crowd. Okay and look

Listen okay. So there's a little bit of consistency issue and a $99. Yeah

But it's still okay. You have the knob that has a little tiny bit of play here

No lean at all and this one's nothing

Like you would find on a $600 reel, I guess no play at all. No in and out

So what will give this part of the reel will give this an 8 out of 10

I don't like giving number ratings, but I'm just trying to give you guys an idea

How it stacks up. It's it's almost on the level of what you have on a Matane iam, DC and a terrace

Where it's almost perfect, so, you know, it's not focused on that too all too long

and it has your little

You know retaining

spring here and as bars, I don't lose your side plates because that's apparently an issue and you have

an

interesting

break design

So I was expecting to see that

VBS break from yesteryear, we just had the pins like on the tranqs 500 to tranqs 300 400 the old Corrado's but it actually

Has a static centrifugal brake found in a Corrado

Very interesting with what are the six pins. So you have tons of range. That's

That's pretty cool. I you know again, I'm not the biggest Shimano baitcaster guy. I love their spinning reels

So I don't have any experience with a 6 : pins

SVS infinity static break

That's decent free spool out of the box that's that's actually really good free spool and

We're gonna go ahead and clip the mic

To the reel just to give you an idea how it feels on my hand

and again I use this method on another video and

I think I only continue to do it and I'm willing to bet doesn't be a lot of guys out there

They're gonna start doing this because it really is an effective way of doing it

Now you guys heard that cast King Royal legend

That's I can't hear the thing just so you guys know

You know what, let me go ahead and cook them like here

Well, this doesn't make you go deaf. I

Tell them like down a little bit because again, I can't tell what it sounds like. It's like I got in the video editor

Okay, I

Mean they're very smooth

like butter, they don't spin forever and it again ball bearings and handle knobs aren't needed unless

They're there to make up for the side-to-side

Play

Sometimes when you have bushings and handle knobs, you can't get the shimming right without locking up and binding

These are are really nice

Like you're like, I mean you have a 500 all out reeling you're turning the handle

You know, I guess this reel is now $500 us

Now I really can't you know, they spend like this. What do you do? I

I can't tell the difference between these two reels and the handle knobs

Sorry if you guys were upset about that, so

This is an interesting reel. This is the first time that I've

Liked the fit finish and feel of a $99 mount a baitcaster

This is this is new. Well, how much were the old Corrado's the green ones? They were nice. They weren't my favorites, but

I'm digging it. So when you have something like this, which is the $99 Fuego

All Things Considered

When you compare it to this again $99 Fuego $99 s LX look at this look at the size difference look how much smaller

The new Shimano is from front to back

It's probably I'd say six millimeters shorter from the chin to the back

It's much

Slimmer, it's it's probably on along the lines of those

those new

OEM looking dial reels the CGA T and then whatever they are

Very compact. I mean we're talking very here. Here's a oldie but goodie. Here's a a

Beaten to crap a boo mg X it's almost the size of this

Which is a tiny little real

Not quite as small as the current mg X's but it sits down there. I

Like it. I like the fit and finish of this real. I can't wait to see how this thing fishes

This is a really nice really guys again out of the box. Is it a turret? I can't tell it just feels good

I mean in hand I like everything about it. And this is what separates the the men from the boys

When you look at the distance between the outer

flange of the spool and that level wind that's kind of what made to Fuego CT one of my favorite reels for the price and

It really looks like the Shimano is right up there as far as distance

It's pushed way out much further than what you get out of the Bantam MGL and the further out you move that level wined

Essentially it acts and responds

Like a non level wind reel. So if you guys are on the beach surf casting you want maximum difference a difference distance

You don't want to level one because this here this little eyelet here

Will impede the line the flow of the line coming off the reel because as it switches directions, it's got to go here

It's got to go here and hit that little wine

Nice nice

can't find anything wrong with that and

Looking here. It's black. I'm willing to bet that it's a plastic worm gear. Which guys who have the crowd?

Okay's you break your worm gears yet. I bet you didn't

Let's get it wait

We go from ounces I

Think on the package they say 6.8. I think that's what it is. That's that's pretty sweet again 99 bucks

Okay, we're looking half ounce oh yeah half ounce roughly

That's pretty sweet I'll get our spool wait

For you finesse guys out there, okay

Matt knows where makes me look stupid

15 with no bearing. Okay. That's a pretty big break. Yeah. What going on there?

15.5

Give me a moment to get this side plane off

And again, this has been my pick for the best nun you $9 this is a brand new rail just got in the mail

I had one made about I don't 2000 casts worth

That's how much time I put on it and it was a great reel and I figured you know, what?

since I keep on wrecking

Recommending it

I got at least have one and

I think it was one my camera broke and I had to send it out to Sony that I couldn't really do anything with it

So I just figured I'd sell it off so

17.1 three

Verses 15 and a half so slight difference

and again

They're very similar design as far as you have that that long shaft that runs the entire width of the reel

It's not like you'll find on some of the free fleet fat free-floating designs in Abu

It's not like a free-floating design that you'll find and some of the higher-end iowa's

so there's a little bit of extra mass that it's got to get going but

It's inward. So it's a little bit easier to get it going. So it's not the end of the world

It all comes down to the break now as far as how it's gonna handle finesse lures any guy

Are you guys buying this real for finesse? So you just guys trying to get a a

good, uh

stack of reels on your boat deck

Suite all right, so enough jibber jabbering, let's go ahead

And see what's up her skirt, is it appropriate to say

Edit that out. That's enough. Jibber-jabber and let's get inside

I'm curious

That was a 10 mill it seemed a little looser than normal interesting I

Love these caps here. I really do

I I despise what Dyer uses on some of the reels because if you look actually no this one's not bad. Sorry

This one's good. But on some of the higher end ones that just have that silly little

Aluminum a little ring

no, you're gonna scratch these things no matter what wrench you use whether the

Fancy aluminum ones you get off a hedgehog or what? Alright, so we have the click plate here, which

Runs along in here. I love this design very similar

To the orange band in the Orange Crush the concept Z only it's improved it really is

We cover that in the Bantam MGL review

And since we're trying to focus on way too many things at once

I

Can see what makes up this so just make sure you're careful

That's just fill down that little ledge there didn't go anywhere

But there's a little a little detent that runs in that spring a little plunger that goes in there

great design, I

Like it much better

Than the older Matane iam DC to be honest when it comes to servicing, this is a Bosch of Stella with Matane iam

God

I've wait too many fishing with first world problems

and

So they're gonna have to pay pop that spool that again

By I didn't

I'm good. See it's a plastic side plate. It definitely felt like plastic side plate. So it's expected

For you guys that work on your own wheels for the first time

As you like holding the reel and whatever orientation the screws come out just so I know where they go

So that's the back. That's the front you can see two different sizes

And a little context could let you know if what screws go into metal what screws goes into plastic you see these coarse threads

Coarse threads are gonna be going into the plastic. The finer ones always go into metal just a little thing

You hear that crack

That's a broken fishing reel right there. That's just locked. I usually

know

That is this

Breaking are loose

Sometimes when you have screws going into a plastic body it compresses a little bit almost acts like a lock

And you can tell what is what

Again

You have your course versus fine screws

I think that was it now for the big reveal. Oh

You know what guys I'm sorry, I apologize this is metallic blue

cast King

This has been telic blue

That's funny I

was playing around with some

Pre-release shimano surf rods a couple years ago and this color was all over them