Piscifun Alinox 300 Baitcasting Reel, 33LB Drag, Aluminum Frame | Freshwater saltwater, 6.6/8.1 ratios, smooth casting, low-profile body

Excellent reel -- smooth, lightweight, well constructed. Great value for the money. Highly recommend.

What a great reel at a bargain pricepoint ! Smooth and with an incredibly powerful drag !

I’m surprised by the quality out of the box…seems to be a really solid reel for the money. I don’t have a lot of casts in on it yet so time will tell for durability. I will be putting heavy use on it for musky fishing but I think most musky guys could agree that even the high end reels have less than desired durability. I have and still do fish with Shimano and Abu. Bought a piscifun 400 last year just to try and was impressed enough to order the 300 this year.

Spent many years tournament bass fishing and was pretty successful at it, I tried many baitcasters and always went back to Shimano my favourite being the older Chronarch CH100B, I even found the Curado 200D wanting (I've never fished with the newer versions). I tried the other brands and could never get consistent casting with them like the Chronarchs. I was what is classed as a power fisherman and would make in excess of 2000 casts in a day. A few years ago I got bored of bass fishing and started Saltwater fishing (can't say I'm any good at it yet), so switched to spinning reels but I miss fishing with baitcasters when spending hours slinging lures off the boat. Was very keen on getting a Shimano Tranx 300 but they are just too expensive for me at the moment. So I got my new Alijos 300 just after Xmas and went out yesterday to give it a good run. I spooled it with 300m of 20lb braid mounted on an old Shimano Compre 7ft MH Extra fast action and so far I am pretty impressed. Had a 5/8 oz or 18g spoon/jig rigged up and I was very pleased with how well the reel performs. Gets good distance and I had no overruns with the brakes set on 4 (I do control the spool with my thumb though). The reel pitches nicely too. Just caught a bunch of small 1lb to 2lb Bluefish yesterday so nothing to really test the drag but it seems pretty smooth with lots of fine adjustment, certainly seems to have a pretty serious drag as advertised. Reel looks lovely and feels like its put together very well. The power handle and larger frame size will take a bit of getting used to but for it's intended purpose is required. The high speed retrieve works well for burning saltwater lures. Considering it's large spool it casts very well and feels robust, I give it a 5 star rating for now but have dropped it to 4 until it shows how well it stands up to the saltwater environment. Once it's fought a few drag burners and seen a bit more saltwater I will update the review. If it stands the test of time then the $90 after discount price tag is a no brainer if you're looking for a heavy duty low profile baitcaster.

Ok, I’ve had this reel for 2 years now and use it exclusively fishing in saltwater in the backwaters of the Florida Everglades. Caught numerous speckled trout and it performed beautifully. Casting is wonderful with no backlashes. Have it spooled with 30 pound braid and a 20 pound mono top shot. It is paired with an Ugly Stik Tiger Lite pistol grip rod, med heavy action. Last week was seeing barracuda in the area and put on a wire leader. Hooked up on a 6 ft lemon shark. The 33 pounds of drag worked flawless and was able to stop and slowly bring the fish to the boat. Totally impressed with this reel.

Seems like a quality reel, pretty light, and just playing with it in house drag seems pretty smooth, haven't had the chance to test on the water yet as we're still iced in but, shipped quickly and priced well below comparable reels, will probably purchase the 400 for SERIOUS musky fishing later this spring

I own 2 of these reels. Both with the 8/1 ratio. Have matched them with Daiwa harrier rods ( M and ML). I can just fit a 300 yard spool of 30lb dextron kastking on them. I mention the brands because this the combo I went with and think I hit one out of the park. Have been using this combo lingcod and rockfish jigging off reefs up to 500 ft deep. I’m enjoying using such a light rod and reel, as the bigger reels in the picture next to them are used for the same thing. Yes the bigger reels hold more line, but this reel holds plenty if your willing to go down in test. Trust me 30 lb braid is plenty strong. The 8/1 ratio is nice as I’m fishing as deep as 500 ft. These are big rockfish and nice lings, pulling doubles and triples some times and the reel handles it fine. I owned one of the 2 reels for over a year. The only problem I’ve had is the knob for the handle came off. The screw that holds it fell out. I pushed it back on and will find another screw or use some glue. It’s not an issue for me, nor do I feel it changes my review. Just pointing it out.

I have owned the Alijoz size 300 reel for about 8 months now to replace my Lew's speed spool after the brake gave out on it. This reel is 100 times better. I use the reel both for freshwater and saltwater, but I bought it mostly for freshwater use. The 33 lbs. of drag is amazing as I fish off of jetties and a lot of heavy cover and I can rip fish out of snags quickly without losing gear. The additional button to lock the spool is awesome and it is quite difficult using other reels now as I have grown accustomed to it. I have used this reel for shark, rockfish, halibut, bass, catfish, pike, etc. And have not been disappointed. I will say that I chose the single handle feature and when fishing freshwater it can be more difficult to reel but as I have said before this is primarily a saltwater reel so I don't find it to be a big issue. Great job done by Piscifun in making an afforable real that is still competitive with other top notch baitcasting reels.

Bought for a (old) keen fisherman and he is over the moon with it.

I'm a Baitcaster user from way back and had two when I bought the #300 being a larger capacity reel. Have got rid of both existing Baitcasters I had as the #300 Alijos is just so much better in every possible way. When adjusted correctly this reel will cast 40 plus meters and stop without feathering the line, and will NOT cause birds-nest either, the magnetic brake works just so much better than any other reel I've used. Can't recommend this reel highly enough. (have since bought the lower gear ratio reel for off shore fishing) Paul

it competes with the big brands and does it so well