The Daiwa Demon Blood S85-5/8 is built for NZ’s toughest fishing conditions—perfect for stickbaiting, casting and topwater action. With advanced carbon technology, Fuji components, and a lightweight yet powerful blank, it's designed to dominate hard-fighting underwater predators.
Daiwa’s Demon Blood range has been synonymous with the tough and often brutal fishing which New Zealand is so famous for. Daiwa has developed and refined the Demon Blood to bring a new level of performance and expanded the range to cater for the ever-growing demand for sportfishing actions suitable for casting, or jigging for hard-fighting predators.
Features:
3DX is Daiwa’s exclusive carbon technology which creates an interlocking weave of high-modulus carbon fibre which significantly increases torsional stiffness. The upgrades don’t stop there either, Daiwa’s new X45X Full Shield has been incorporated from where the 3DX finishes, throughout the entire rod blank. The next iteration from Daiwa’s famous X45, X45X Full Shield is up to 25% more efficient in its benefits of increased torsional stiffness and increased stiffness to weight ratio. That means the new Demon Bloods not only are lighter than their predecessors but will outperform them as well.
Fuji components outfit the new blanks with Alconite ringed stainless-steel guides and DPS reel seats with locking nuts across the range. A few key points of the new Demon Blood are the use of reversed MN frame guides as stripper guides and K’ series anti-tangle guides towards the tip sections.
If you’re looking for a new outfit to tame some monsters from the deep or maybe chase some addictive topwater action on the reef, look no further than the brand new, redeveloped range of Demon Blood rods from Daiwa.
Specifications:
Model: Daiwa 20 Demon Blood S85-5/8
Type: Stickbait, Spin
Length: 257cm (8'4")
Casting Weight: 60-160g
Line Weight: PE#5-8
Sections: 2 (removable butt section)
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