abu garcia revo premier spinning reel salt water

Together these super-lightweight enhancements keep the weight exceptionally low, without compromising on brute strength. This reel’s featherweight construction rests on Abu Garcia’s 1-piece gearbox made with X-Mag magnesium alloy, anchored by a C6 carbon body, stem, and rotor topped by a machined-aluminium braid-ready spool. “Fish with near effortless precision when you attach an Abu Garcia® Revo® MGX® Spinning Reel to a premium rod. Price (around £160 but read to the end of this review).The 30 size in this guise weighs in at an astonishing 167g – over to you Daiwa and Shimano! Vital Statisticsīelow are the reel’s vital statistics and Abu Garcia’s own description that I have shamelessly lifted from their 2019 catalogue and website: The MGX had sat at the top of the Revo tree since its release in 2015, but recently it has been trumped by the MGXtreme (see Abu’s 2019 catalogue here). These include the Premier, Inshore Spin (that has additional saltwater corrosion resistant body on the 40-60 sizes which are a bit too substantial for me), the STX, SX, X, S and Rocket. There are a number of variants within the ‘Revo’ family that, as you expect, decrease in price and overall features but gradually increase in weight as you drop down through the range. I considered two other reels at the time which were the Shimano Stradic CI4+ 3000 HG FB here and the Penn Conflict II 2000 here which I know from my clients appear to be very good reels. I also wanted something with a more substantial gear or retrieve ratio than my previous reel of at least 6.0:1, so that I had the ability to ‘bully’ a bass away and out of the snags in the shallow water I regularly fish, if and when required.įurthermore, the prerequisites of perfect line lay (that you’d expect on any reel nowadays) alongside a modicum of durability had to be fulfilled within a budget of around £150 – the reason being that I don’t mind spending this amount on a reel that will last me the entire season (April-December as a minimum). The criteria was to find something very light (sub 200g) with a spool capacity that would allow me to add some backing (I use cheap 6lb monofilament) and then 150 yards 20lb (0.15mm) braid, so that I could achieve two completed spools with a 300 yard spool if you see what I mean. I purchased my Abu Garcia Revo MGX 30 after I accidentally drove over my rod and previous reel (the Daiwa EM MS 25000H) – what an idiot! The rod was fine, but the reel was a mangled mess! I have therefore been using my MGX exclusively since late March 18.

Abu garcia revo premier spinning reel salt water