van staal 400!?!!

dont know about yall but i didn't know this existed really really really pricey though......
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Van-Staal-VS...item3a6f580e19

Beautiful reel, that qualifies as art. :bow:

As for the price tag, somebody will buy it. :poke1:

Yea we had one at the store some years back. What is cool is that it has two manual pickups. We sold it to a boat that was going to tuna and white marlin fish with it.

^I hate to hear they want to Tuna Feesh with it!!! Poor Reel probably exploded into pieces.

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^I hate to hear they want to Tuna Feesh with it!!! Poor Reel probably exploded into pieces.
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Nah, that reel is a beast.

I saw the two manual pickups. Why?

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I saw the two manual pickups. Why?
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That's so you and a friend can fish with it at the same time.
It is a great learning tool to show someone how to get the line on the roller with a hoo or tuner swimmin away @ mach 3

LOL

I have no idea actually.
Even the 200 VS we have @ BPS is "a beast" and nobody wants to lay down the $750 for it,
but it is (by far) the most 'handled' reel in the store. :D

I was told that it had two pickups because the reel was so big that two were needed to speed up getting the line on the manuel.

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I was told that it had two pickups because the reel was so big that two were needed to speed up getting the line on the manuel.
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This makes good sense. Having two equal sized rollers 180° from each other makes balancing the rotor easier also.

48 oz. Wow. That's about the weight of an international 30.

what is that thing on the back is it a bait runner or what?

If I remember what I read about the reel somtime back, it is some sort of lever drag. At least it operates similarly to a lever drag.