Shimano SLX DC vs SLX casting distance test

Shimano SLX DC vs SLX in the castoff of the century!

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Hey Ya’ll Brandon Hewitt here with Brandom Fishing and I have a good one for you today. I just bought an SLX DC used off of ebay for 130 bucks and I wanted to see if it is worth it. A brand new SLX is $100 and the DC is $190.

The DC stands for digital chip and it is a really cool innovation in fishing reels. Conventional baitcasters have a braking system installed to help minimize backlashes. These are typically centrifugal brakes like the SLX has or Magnetic brakes like my Diawa has. The purpose is to help control the speed of the spool so it does not spin faster than the line coming off. This causes backlashes. The DC has a computer chip that controls the speed of the spool. It sounds really cool too.

I went to a field and set up an area to measure the distance of the casts. I can accurately measure up to 175 feet by using the stakes and the tape measure. I set up the test to make sure everything is as much the same as I can control. The same line, the same rods, the same baits, and the same casting technique.

Baits used were a 5” Gary Yamamoto senko with a Hayabusa 4/0 EWG hook casted weightless, and a Whopper Plopper 110

Rods used were a 7’ Med ACK rod for the worm and a 7’6 heavy ACK rod for the plopper.

Line used was 30lb suffix 832 braid.

Both reels were in great gently used condition.

Below is a list of the results of each of the 5 casts
SLX - 3 of the brakes closed and 3 open
Worm - 93, 104, 95, 94, 101 for an average of 97.4
Whopper Plopper 110 - 115, 118.5, 119, 120, 115 for an average of 117.5

SLX DC - set to setting 2
Worm - 96.5, 108.5, 96, 96.5, 93 Average of 98.1
Whopper Plopper 110 - 134, 151, 151.5, 147, 151 Average 146.9

I did a couple of casts with the SLX brakes set to 2 open and 4 closed to see if it was just too much braking power for the heavy bait and it helped a little but I got a nasty backlash too. Here are the distances 126, 133, 124.5 and as you can see it did help a little about 10 extra feet but was not worth the backlash.

As you can see the results for the two casting a lighter weight worm was about the same. When I casted the heavy whopper plopper 110 you can really see a difference, about 30 more feet! If you are trying to cover water with big heavy baits, this can add up to a lot more water covered and is def worth the extra money. If you are looking for a finesse reel, I would stick with the SLX and save the $90. Shoot you can almost get 2 for the price of 1!

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