Spool Capacity of USDM Reels: Somebody Please Help Me to Understand

[Big Hands]

Can somebody please help me to understand why a Tatula LT 2000D-XH needs to have a spool capacity of 4/340, 6/220, 8/160?

 

They appear to go to great lengths to seemingly pick the fly poop out of the pepper in so many other ways, but insist on feeding us with a steady diet of mega-capacity spools. And it's not like Shimano isn't complicit in this regard.

 

Those numbers are for YARDS. That means it would have over 1,000 feet of 4 lb monofilament line with a spool filled to capacity. Even filled with 8 lb monofilament, it would have nearly 500 feet of line. The majority of Daiwa spinning reels are only offered with the "D" spools here in the USDM. It's not like they don't make spools with any other designation (somewhere between the "D" and the "S" spools), not to mention "S" (shallow) spools. They do. They just insist on not offering the USDM much choice.

Is there some kind of application I am simply not aware of where a majority (or anyone at all) needs to have such line capacity?

 

It's got to be a conscious decision by someone. Probably a very calculated decision I would have to imagine.

 

Are "D" spools cheaper to manufacture?

 

Does Daiwa get subsidies from line manufacturers and figure consumers are just too ignorant to figure out that they don't really need that much line capacity?

 

Do I really need that much line capacity and just haven't figured it out yet?

 

Do USDM consumers demand such line capacity?

[MN Fisher]

Drives me nuts too - which is why if I order a Daiwa spinning reel, it'll be JDM.

[A-Jay]

I use 2500 & 3000 size reels with what most would consider 'deep' spools on all my spinning set ups.

Don't necessarily need it for bass but there's some multi-species by catch that happens here

where a little extra spool capacity can be a nice security blanket.

However the spool capacity numbers posted for the reel above

seem like deals most bass fisherman might consider unnecessary. 

I fish a couple of Daiwa TALTSS3000-CXH Tatula LT Sterling Silver Spinning Reels. (killer reel btw)

Line capacity is listed as 10/280, 12/220 Mono.  

I use 10 lb braid on both.

Let's just say there's quite a bit of 'backing'. 

A-Jay

 

[WRB]

Shimano and Daiwa should offer a choice of deep and shallow spools. The original Garcia 300 spinning reel (French ) came with 2 spools, shallow and deep, 60 years ago.

Tom

[KP Duty]

I noticed this on the daiwa ballistic as well  Granted they are marked 'D' for deep spool, there is no standard or shallow version available in the states.  

[redmeansdistortion]

1 hour ago, WRB said:

Shimano and Daiwa should offer a choice of deep and shallow spools. The original Garcia 300 spinning reel (French ) came with 2 spools, shallow and deep, 60 years ago.

Tom

They do, just not here.  In Japan, Daiwa spinners come in D (deep) and S (shallow) nomenclature.  Shimano reels will have a S (shallow) or SS (super shallow) as part of theirs.  The shallow spools were designed for thin braid, while the standard and deeper spools for mono or thicker braid.

[LCG]

I have not had a fresh water fish take more than 30 yards of line. I would love to experience a 200 yard run, but that is unlikely in my area. 

[redmeansdistortion]

29 minutes ago, LCG said:

I have not had a fresh water fish take more than 30 yards of line. I would love to experience a 200 yard run, but that is unlikely in my area. 

Go hook into a sturgeon on the St. Clair River, scratch that itch.

 

[Deleted account]

4 hours ago, Big Hands said:

Do USDM consumers demand such line capacity?

That one.

[Big Hands]

1 hour ago, Deleted account said:

That one.

Well butter my bottom and call me a biscuit.

[MN Fisher]

20 minutes ago, Big Hands said:

Well butter my bottom and call me a biscuit.

I have that towel!