What's your favorite JDM reel?

Owned one since release. Upgraded the reel with SLP Works spool/handle/drag star/knobs and it's a force of a frog reel setup. I can't count how many Musky It's handled from 30-44 inches while I was bass fishing. Very impressed with the Zillion and Zillion HD releases.

Just grabbed the Zillion tw hd1520. Been looking out the window since I played the order😁

I started as a 10 year old with a spinning reel with left crank. Have never changed. I did buy a right crank TD Zillion when my right shoulder was injured and learned to cast left handed. I have 2 TD Zillions one left and one right crank. I also have 3 Shimano Calcutta TE's 101GT 201 and 401. Being able to cast right or left is an advantage in certain situations. Problem is which reel you have in hand at the moment. So some switching does occur. Not having to switch hands, when the bait lands you are fishing.

My favorite jdm reel is the steez sv tw (but i currently dont own any they expensive). Followed by the steez A ii (i only have one). Then anything SV TW i love for their ability to throw tiny lures. I have zillion sv tws, i have coastal sv tws, i have salamandura sv tws, and i have tatula sv tw. When it comes down to it though, anytime i am going to spend more than $200-$300 on a rod or reel, rods take priority. Buying a specialty megabass rod like from the destroyer series or the orochi x10 series is of more value than having a high end reel. The $200 tatula sv tw performs very similarly to a $500 steez sv tw. But rods…. Nope. A $500 destroyer is incredibly different and better than a $200 levante, or a $200 daiwa rod. You can feel everything on the high end rod, and feel it well. It also loads up differently and manuvers differently. Its worth the money to upgrade rods if u can afford a nice one…. At least a nice jig rod and cranking rod.

New subscriber from BC canada. Nice video kabayan😊

I have been looking to buy the lexa but I don't see that in left hand... nor do I see the tatula in left hand.. so I think I'll go for your zillion.. great video

Yeah i dont do the switching of hands casting either. I did on my first ever baitcaster back in the early 2000’s; and i fished it like that for a year or two….. because thats how my dad and grandad taught me… but i always found it to be kinda silly because we all set up our spinning reels to reel with left hand, so why would you switch with baitcasters?? But then in like 2017 when i started fishing more seriously, i bought a couple rh casters and returned them for lh casters. Its much more natural to reel with left and rod in right if youre right handed.

When I first started fishing in the 70’s , baitcasters were all right-handed and spinning reels were all left-handed. That’s how you learned how to fish and that’s what you passed down to your kids. Maybe the next generation will be different.

My thinking was the same as yours, but prior to the early 90’s I don’t think there was an option for left handed baitcasters.

How about using for bass fishing cranks and chatterbaits or wrong reel for that ?

After fishing it in salt, how’s it holding up?

Iam the same iam natural left-hand and iam used any reels left-hand o right hand side

What’s the website of jdm

My frend have the jdm and the american daiwa the same reel and y like better the american daiwa maybe is me

Casting with the right hand, and retrieving with the right as well. It really is not important, i usually swap hands while the lure is still flying in the air, so you're not wasting any time swapping hands when the lure is in the water. Always thought that paying attention to this is stupid because everyone should cast and retrieve the way they feel comfy with, not the way someone else told em to.