Shimano 2013 Metanium is the best performing bait caster for serious tournament anglers. It is ultra light, and super smooth, and you may focus on signals from fish. Casting with Metanium is easy. The SVS infinite brake casts very smooth for long. Its body construction is combined with magnesium alloy body frame and CI4+ engineering carbon material palming side plate to achieve light-weight and solidness.
It employs two innovative features to make it real arsenal for serious anglers. The first noticeable feature is the micro module gear system, which provides amazing smooth gearing. Pinion and master gear has twice the number of gear teeth than previous models, to drastically reduce the gearing noise. The second is variable SVS Infinite centrifugal system, and you may adjust the centrifugal brake without opening side plate, at 20 levels. You may also change the number of brake blocks engaged at spool side, and will have quite wide range of brake settings.
Saltwater fine.