About this product
Shimano Vanford – in stock at 361 Degrees Adventure in Dar es Salaam.
Rotational inertia is the thing you feel and never think about. Every time you start winding, you are accelerating the rotor as well as retrieving line, and every time you stop you are stopping it again. Do that a thousand times in an afternoon of lure fishing and the difference between a heavy rotor and a light one is real fatigue. Shimano MagnumLite rotor is designed around exactly that, claiming up to 48 per cent less inertia than a conventional one.
Built around it is a CI4+ body – carbon-reinforced composite, as rigid as aluminium, much lighter, and incapable of corroding – with a cold-forged HAGANE drive gear, X-SHIP twin-supported pinion and MicroModule II gearing. The spool is a Long Stroke design, which moves further up and down as it fills so the line lies in shallower coils and leaves more freely on the cast.
The C5000XG is a 5000-size spool on a 4000-size body: 400 metres of PE 1.5, 11 kg of maximum drag, and 101 cm of line per crank at 6.2:1. At 220 grams that combination is unusual, and it is the whole reason to buy this reel rather than something cheaper with the same drag figure.
X-Protect gives water repellency at the line roller, but this is not a sealed SW-series reel. Shimano position the Vanford for inshore work; it handles the sea well with a proper rinse, and it is not the reel to take offshore every week.
Two generations exist. The F weighs 220 g with a Cross Carbon drag; the newer FA weighs 225 g and adds InfinityXross gearing and DuraCross drag washers. Ask us which is in stock.
Buying a Shimano Vanford in Dar es Salaam
361 Degrees Adventure keeps the shimano vanford at our showroom in Upanga, Dar es Salaam, with delivery countrywide across Tanzania. Come and handle it before you buy, or order online and collect.
Every shimano vanford is checked in store before it leaves us, and our staff use the same kit in the field, so you get an honest answer on fit and sizing rather than a sales pitch.
Not sure which shimano vanford suits you? Call or message the showroom and we will talk you through the options that are actually in stock in Tanzania.
Spare parts and replacements for the shimano vanford are easier to get here than on an overseas order, which matters once the gear is in use.
Browse more Spinning Reels in Tanzania, or see the full 361 Degrees range. For general background on fishing reels, see this overview on Wikipedia.
Shimano Vanford C5000XG Spinning Reel