FISHING RODS Shimano

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Shimano STC XR Monster – Compact Power for Extreme Predators. The Shimano STC XR Monster range stands at the pinnacle of high-performance travel rods, purpose-built to handle large, aggressive predators in the toughest freshwater and saltwater environments. These rods deliver an exceptional balance of strength, control, and packability. Constructed using high-modulus carbon combined with HPC, Nanosheet, and Diaflash technologies, the STC XR Monster blanks provide outstanding lifting power and structural resilience under extreme pressure. A moderately fast action ensures optimal lure control and accuracy, even with oversized baits. All components are built to premium standards: Fuji K-Type stainless steel guides with Alconite inserts provide corrosion resistance and smooth line flow, while the ergonomic high-density EVA grip and Fuji DPS reel seat support both large spinning and baitcasting reels. With a compact transport length of just 65 cm and available in three configurations, each rod comes with a dedicated STC XR hard case for safe travel and storage. The ideal solution for serious anglers pursuing trophy fish across the globe.

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Engineered for the demands of modern shore jigging, the Shimano CurrentSniper BB blends precision construction with premium materials. Its high-modulus carbon blank, built with Hi-Power X technology, enhances structural stiffness and minimizes blank twist for improved casting efficiency and fighting control. The rod’s moderate-fast action ensures a smooth and progressive load curve, ideal for long-distance casting and effective lure manipulation. High-quality components include Fuji K-Type guides with Alconite inserts for reduced friction and extended line life, and a Fuji DPS reel seat with a dual locking nut for a secure fit with reels of all sizes. The high-density EVA handle ensures a steady grip even when wet or exposed to salt. Whether targeting offshore predators from the shore or casting from a boat, the CurrentSniper BB is built to deliver power, sensitivity, and resilience in the toughest saltwater conditions.

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The new Tyrnos B Stand Up Spiral rod for fishing tuna and other large sea predators from Shimano is a high end boat rod designed with latest design features for modern techniques using braided lines, this totally reliable range is available with both straight and bent head options and a unique spiral guide placement to maximize actions. If you are serious about your boat fishing and hunting the biggest fish in the oceans using a more active stand-up fighting style, you will certainly appreciate the quality of the high-end Shimano Tyrnos Stand B Up Spiral range. Built using Shimano's finest carbon technology, these powerful rods are extraordinarily light and allow you to use the latest techniques with confidence. The fish's fantastic playing actions are enhanced by the use of a spiral guide configuration that maintains maximum fighting curve. At the heart of the Tyrnos B Stand Up Spiral is a blank that delivers optimum performance. The full carbon construction with HPC (High Pressure Carbon) technology and biofiber reinforcement is further enhanced by Shimano's exclusive Twist Control. The result is lightness, sturdiness and total reliability. Twist Control ensures that fighting power is delivered through the shaft in a direct line, while the spiral drive configuration of Fuji HB guides with SiN II coatings ensures that maximum power potential is delivered to your hands. To ensure maximum reel safety, a Pac Bay aluminum reel seat is fitted to the handles, available in straight or angled options to suit your preference.

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The Shimano STC AX Spinning Multi Length range is a highly functional solution for today’s mobile and adaptive anglers. Each six-piece model features a 30 cm extension section, allowing for quick length adjustments on the water without affecting rod balance or requiring re-rigging. With casting weights from 3–14 g up to 15–40 g, the Multi Length rods are built to handle a wide variety of lures and conditions, whether you're targeting freshwater species or inshore predators. Constructed with high-modulus carbon and Nanosheet technology, they deliver a moderate-fast action that combines casting precision with reliable fighting power. Designed for travel, all models collapse to 65 cm or less, making them easy to carry in backpacks, overhead compartments, or bike bags. Each rod features a premium cork handle, Shimano DPS reel seat, and Shimano Hardlite single-foot guides, ensuring smooth line handling with both braid and fluorocarbon. A durable shaped hard case is included, offering full protection and making these rods ready for any fishing adventure-anywhere in the world.

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Designed for tuna trolling in the Mediterranean, the proven Beastmaster CX Stand-Up Spiral offers exceptional value and is fitted with a unique spiral guide set-up which greatly improves the playing action when under extreme pressure. The Beastmaster CX Stand-Up Spiral not only looks different, it feels different to. Offering exceptional value, these unique rods have been designed by Mediterranean tuna experts to maximise your fish-playing experience when hooked into powerful, fast running fish. When bent into a fighting curve, the line is held away from the blank by the guide placing producing a better action, with minimal sideways twist, enabling you to apply maximum pressure. The Full Carbon blank of the Beastmaster is a proven construction that has been trusted by big game anglers for many years. Some even claim that it is indestructible! The combination of power, strength and reliability will enable you to play any sized fish with confidence and style. Fitted with very strong Seaguide XRG guides and a PacBay Aluminium reel seat, which will hold the largest multiplier reel securely, this rod has in-built strength throughout. Yet, despite its remarkable strength, it retains a great fish-playing action under pressure, even with smaller tuna in the 10-20kg size range, thanks to the seamless one-piece design and the spiral guide placement. Available in 50lb and 80lb ratings, an ergonomic EVA grip ensures you stay totally connected, even with the pressure is fully on. If you are a serious tuna fisherman, or a recreational weekend angler, the Beastmaster CX Stand-up Spiral is the perfect trolling rod to take on the challenge of the most powerful, fastest fish in the Mediterranean.

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The Salty Advance is a mid-priced EGI rod selected from the JDM range and designed for cephalopod fishing by Shimano's Japanese experts. Great value for money, the high modulus carbon blanks are light, extremely sensitive and fitted with premium Fuji guides. If you don't want to invest in an expensive high-end rod, but want to take advantage of a great design experience and an advanced carbon construction, the Salty Advance Eging offers a fantastic compromise. This stunning looking range has been selected from the Shimano JDM range and is perfect for squid and cuttlefish fishing on European shores. The moderate-fast action is ideal for casting EGIs comfortably while maintaining a responsive tip for maximum lure action and bite detection. The eye catching blank of the Salty Advance Eging is made from advanced high modulus carbon, rarely found in rods of this price point. The result is a perfectly balanced combination of power and sensitivity, with the right reactivity in the central section to support the strokes of the squid, even in low light conditions, when it is necessary to use sensitivity and not sight to perceive the touches of cephalopods. The range includes two 2.51m models: the lighter version is suitable for Egi sizes 1.8-3.8, while the more powerful version can handle Egi sizes 2.5-4.0. To enhance the high quality performance of the Salty Advance Eging, the lightweight Fuji KR-type Alconite stainless steel guides, with SiC leader, ensure trouble-free line handling, even when using ultra fine braid. To complete the eye-catching blank, an exclusive Shimano plate is mounted on the modern and ergonomic EVA split grip handle.

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The Shimano STC (Shimano Travel Concept) Spinning series is designed for demanding anglers who require compact gear without compromising on quality and performance. Comprising seven models in 4- and 5-piece configurations, this range delivers fast and progressive actions, with lengths of 2.40 m and 2.70 m and casting weights from 10–30 g to 50–100 g, covering virtually all artificial lure fishing techniques. These rods are built using a combination of high-strength carbon and advanced Nanosheet technology, resulting in a structure that is both highly responsive and extremely durable. The outcome is a rod with precise and powerful action—perfect for long-distance casting, optimal lure control, and confident fish-fighting capability. With a compact transport length (less than 65 cm when collapsed), these rods are ideal for travel by air, on foot, or where space is limited. The section design has been engineered for seamless blank continuity, eliminating stiffness at the joints and delivering a smooth, uninterrupted action curve. All models feature premium components: single-foot Shimano Hardlite guides for better heat dissipation and compatibility with braided lines, a Shimano VSS reel seat for secure grip, and a natural cork handle for comfort and sensitivity during extended use. Each rod comes with a custom-shaped hard case, offering maximum protection during transit. From finesse fishing with soft baits and crankbaits for smaller predators, to working heavy glide and jerkbaits for pike or inshore saltwater species, the STC Spinning range is a versatile and technically advanced solution, ready to tackle any fishing scenario worldwide.

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Shimano's new Vengeance Stand-Up Spiral is a very affordable rod featuring a unique spiral guide system that greatly improves the fishing action when subjected to extreme pressures. Don't be fooled by the convenience of Vengeance Stand-Up Spiral. It may be our entry-level stand-up rod, but it packs all the power of its much more expensive siblings in the Shimano range. These unique rods have been designed by Mediterranean tuna experts to provide a cost effective solution when trolling and are designed with a spiral guide placement that wraps around the rod allowing the line to follow the fight curve. When bent, the wire is held away from the blank by guide placement producing better action, with minimal lateral twist, allowing maximum pressure to be applied. With a name like Vengeance you only know that the empty space will be up to any challenge it faces. And it has to be, because nothing in the Mediterranean fights with the combined power, speed and determination of an angry tuna. Featuring very sturdy Shimano Hardlite guides, which can overcome the pressure of thinner mono and braided lines, an aluminum Shimano reel seat will hold the largest multiplier reel firmly, allowing you to lower the handle with confidence. Despite its undoubted strength, the two models in the Vengeance range retain a great fishing action under extreme pressure, and in tests they compared very favorably with much more expensive rods. Available in 50lb and 80lb sizes, the seamless one-piece design never gets overloaded and still retains added flexibility, even when you push it to the extreme. An ergonomic EVA handle ensures you stay totally connected, even when the pressure is fully active. With many recreational tuna fishermen using inferior quality rods supplied by the charter boats they are fishing on, the Vengeance Stand-Up Spiral is affordable enough to now allow you to own your own specialized trolling rod.

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The Shimano 22 Sephia BB is a medium-high end cuttlefish spinning rod (EGI Game) designed for cephalopod fishing by the Japanese experts at Shimano. Exceptionally light, with a moderate-fast action, the blank is made from Hi-Power X Carbon and has a very sensitive tip. Combined with the Sephia BB reel it creates an extraordinary combination. Although EGI lure fishing is a specialist technique, it is increasing in popularity across Europe. If you are already passionate about this exciting fishing technique, you will definitely want a well put together rod and reel, and this is where the Sephia BB comes in. Developed in Japan by Shimano experts, the Sephia BB is a great all-round rod. With a length of 2.51m. and a moderate-fast action, it is long and powerful to cast EGI at excellent distances, while maintaining a soft tip to best animate the lures and warn the hits. Constructed from Shimano's exclusive Hi-Power X carbon, the Sephia BB blank is impressively light at just 100g, yet has the power to cast the biggest EGIs at extreme distances. Despite the impressive casting characteristics, in line with all high performance EGI rods, the Sephia BB has a moderate-fast action combined with a sensitive tip and progressive center section, offering the perfect blend of bite detection and strikes. effective. To further enhance the casting performance and action of the rod, lightweight Fuji Alconite K-type guides were chosen for their anti-tangle characteristics. Featuring a custom designed Shimano reel seat and split EVA handle, the performance and red/black graphics are a perfect match for the Shimano Sephia BB reel.

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Choose your favorite style of eging from our full Sephia line-up. From shores to offshore, from shallow to deep waters, the evolution of the Sephia rods take another leap forward. The SPIRAL X CORE makes the blanks light and strong while the lightweight Carbon Monocoque Grip increases the sensitivity felt through the rod in the grip. The X Guide system helps to reduce line troubles and the XR line-up is a notch above the SS models. With so many types of eging nowadays, Shimano hopes to provide you as anglers, with your favorite specs from our line-up.

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The Shimano STC Mini Telespin series redefines portability in modern spinning gear. Developed with the mobile angler in mind, this rod range combines extremely compact transport lengths (as short as 40 cm for the 2.70 m model) with performance levels that match or exceed many traditional two-piece rods. With eight models ranging from 3–14 g to 10–30 g casting weights, the STC Mini Telespin is suited to everything from alpine streams to coastal waters. Built with high-strength carbon and Nanosheet construction, these rods deliver a fast yet progressive action, ensuring excellent casting sensitivity and powerful control during retrieval. Lightweight Shimano Hardlite single-leg guides are mounted across the telescopic sections, providing smooth line flow and reduced overall weight. The handle features a compact cork grip paired with a Shimano DPS reel seat, offering stability even with small-profile reels. Each rod comes in a molded hard case, designed for secure transport in backpacks, carry-on luggage, or bike compartments. The STC Mini Telespin is a reliable, high-performance solution for the modern angler who values mobility, responsiveness, and ready-to-go convenience.

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Shimano 25 Grappler Type C – The evolution of offshore spinning. Built to meet the toughest demands of saltwater game fishing, the Shimano 25 Grappler Type C is a high-performance offshore spinning rod engineered for long-range casting, lure action control, and heavy-duty fish fighting. The carbon blank reinforced with Spiral X and Hi-Power X technology delivers exceptional torsional rigidity for precise power transfer and unmatched responsiveness. With its moderate/progressive action, this rod is optimized for stickbait and topwater lure presentations, allowing smooth, long casts and accurate control even in windy or choppy conditions. The sensitive tip and responsive backbone work together to create a well-balanced load curve, ideal for handling fast, powerful runs from pelagic species. Equipped with Fuji K-Type Alconite guides and a Fuji SiC tip, the rod features a refined guide layout that enhances casting performance and minimizes tangles, especially thanks to the tight spacing near the tip. A sturdy Fuji DPS reel seat ensures a firm connection with a wide range of reel sizes, while the shaped EVA grip offers comfort and control during extended battles. The Grappler Type C is the go-to choice for anglers seeking a balanced, powerful, and highly responsive spinning rod tailored for serious offshore challenges.

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The Shimano Cardiff Exlead Competition is a series of trout fishing rods that sets new standards for sensitivity and precision. Designed for the most demanding anglers, including experts and world champions, this premium range is perfect for tackling every stage and technique of competition. Its advanced construction, utilizing Shimano's innovative carbon technology, delivers exceptional performance, even with ultralight lures for small predators. The Cardiff EXLEAD Competition rods are made for those seeking an impeccable fishing experience, where every detail contributes to success. Despite their ultralight design, these rods guarantee extraordinary casting precision thanks to the use of innovative materials and Shimano's advanced technologies, ensuring a consistent ability to locate fish with absolute reliability. The blanks of the Cardiff EXLEAD Competition are built with Spiral X Core and Nanopitch technology, which reduce rotational twist during casting and retrieval, thus improving precision and the fluidity of the fighting curve. The 60SULS model features a solid Taftec Infinity tip, ideal for working with ultralight micro spoons. The high-quality accessories include Shimano X-Guide titanium rings and Fuji SiC Titanium K-type guides, an ultralight ergonomic Shimano Ci4+ reel seat, and a monocoque carbon handle that ensures exceptional feedback. Each model in the Cardiff Exlead Competition series is designed for a specific technique, whether it's micro spoons, bottom fishing, jerkbaits, surface lures, or crankbaits. Thanks to collaboration with our professional anglers, world champions, each rod is designed to optimize competition performance, perfectly meeting the needs of every fishing style.

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The Tyrnos B Trolling Lite has been re-designed to give the maximum performance in light line sport fishing with both natural and artificial baits. Its versatile semi-parabolic action gives maximum fish-playing pleasure but also allows to overcome hard-fighting species like tuna, groupers or sailfish, often on remarkably light lines. The lightweight full carbon blanks featuring Biofibre technology deliver great response and strength, while the revisited spiral-mounted Fuji K-type guide setup ensures efficient performance with both mono and braided main lines. The ergonomic foregrip has been revisited and significantly shortened, in order to maximize the comfort while fighting a big fish.

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The CATANA DX Trolling Lite is designed for trolling with live baits and small lures and is available in four powers from 6lbs up to 20lbs. The full carbon blank is remarkably thin, very sensitive and retains the power needed to tackle tough fights, with parabolic action to compensate for the use of light lines. Seaguide Stainless Steel rings are "spiral mounted" on the barrel. This configuration, which is notably different from the previous series, considerably improves the behavior of the spindle during the fishing action. A lightweight aluminum reel seat completes the front EVA handle and ensures maximum comfort and safety when fighting large fish.

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Shimano's AERO X5 Match Float is a series of two match fishing rods. The blanks are made of High Mdulus Carbon + HPC + Nanosteel, this allows these rods to be light, reactive and resistant. The rings are the Super Light Seaguide XOG anti-rust, Shimano DPS reel seat. The rods are equipped with a high quality cork handle plus EVA material.