Saltiga C DOGFIGHT

A tuna-specific casting family built around sustained single-fish battles rather than casting comfort. Daiwa's stated design idea is bending the rod to beat the fish, so the taper stays supple through the tip and recovers hard from the lower blank. The named targets are yellowfin and Pacific bluefin tuna, hooked on large surface plugs and sinking pencils thrown from a drifting boat at feeding schools. US anglers will recognize the discipline as offshore topwater tuna fishing, scaled up in tackle by several steps.

Six models cover 6'7" to 8'4" (2.01 to 2.54 m) and 365 to 390 g. Five are two-piece; the shortest, 67-15, is a single-piece blank stored at 201 cm. Lure ratings are ceilings rather than ranges, from MAX 130 g to MAX 270 g, against line classes of PE MAX 6 to PE MAX 15. The number after the hyphen is that PE class: 84-6 is 8 feet 4 inches to PE 6, 67-15 is 6 feet 7 inches to PE 15. No ultralight-to-extra-heavy power letter is assigned, because PE class and lure grams already define the working window. Construction uses HVF carbon with X45 Full Shield and V-Joint Alpha, with an RV guide at the butt and a DPS18-20 reel seat. Carbon content runs 65 to 73 percent, notably lower than the 98 percent Break Through blanks, reflecting a build tuned for load tolerance under long drag pressure rather than minimum weight.