SERVICING — 2015 Daiwa Saltiga Star Drag 10/15HL
The Saltiga Z reel was so smooth that it rivalled ABU’s Ambassadeurs which were legends in smoothness in their time. Cranking a Saltiga Z gave one a pleasurable feeling of silkiness similar to stroking the coat of a kitten. And who could forget the attention to detail Daiwa engineers gave to that reel, with O-rings for weatherproofing almost everywhere, including the screws that held the reel together.
Sadly, after the success of Saltiga’s overhead reels, Daiwa seem to have changed tack and favoured the egg-beater style of reels for the Saltiga range and it had been so for well over a decade. So it was to the delight of fans for conventional reels that Daiwa launched the Saltiga 10 and Saltiga 15 conventional star drag reels during the Japan Fishing Festival, at Yokohama in January 2015.