Shimano Ultegra Spinning Reel FC

The Shimano Ultegra Spinning Reel FC is a high-performance powerhouse designed to meet the demands of passionate anglers. Engineered with Shimano’s cutting-edge technologies and precision craftsmanship, the Ultegra FC is built to deliver unmatched performance and durability.

The Ultegra FC features a robust and rigid HAGANE body, ensuring exceptional strength and durability while maintaining a lightweight design. This construction not only provides the reel with a solid foundation but also reduces flex and increases power transmission, allowing for efficient and effortless retrieves.

Equipped with Shimano’s advanced X-Ship technology, the Ultegra FC ensures maximum gear efficiency and smoothness. By placing the pinion gear closer to the main gear, X-Ship reduces friction and enhances gear alignment, resulting in increased cranking power and longer casting distances.

The Ultegra FC boasts a refined and responsive drag system, providing precise control over your line. The front drag system offers smooth and consistent drag pressure, allowing you to tackle hard-fighting fish with confidence. Whether you’re battling large freshwater predators or targeting saltwater species, the Ultegra FC’s drag system will handle the challenge effortlessly.

With Shimano’s G-Free Body technology, the Ultegra FC achieves perfect balance and weight distribution. By moving the center of gravity closer to the rod, this design reduces fatigue during extended fishing sessions and improves casting comfort and accuracy.

Featuring a reliable and smooth 5+1 bearing system, the Ultegra FC ensures fluid performance and effortless retrieves. The bearings are strategically placed to minimize friction and deliver a silky-smooth operation, even under heavy loads.

The Ultegra FC also incorporates Shimano’s Aero Wrap II system, which provides excellent line lay and improved casting performance. This system evenly wraps the line onto the spool, reducing friction and allowing for longer, more accurate casts.

Whether you’re targeting freshwater gamefish or testing your skills in saltwater environments, the Shimano Ultegra Spinning Reel FC is a top-tier choice for discerning anglers. Its exceptional strength, smoothness, and reliability make it the perfect companion for all your fishing adventures. Elevate your fishing experience with the Shimano Ultegra FC and feel the difference with every cast and retrieve.

Features

Aero Wrap II

This two-speed oscillation system layers the line onto the spool in a crisscross pattern that reduces line-to-line friction for longer casts. Aero Wrap reels utilize a patented worm gear design to move the spool upward quickly and downward slowly to wind the line in a precise pattern, reducing friction, and giving smoother, longer casting ability.

CI4+

CI4+ is an advanced version of the original CI4. This highly technical material is 2.5 times stiffer than CI4 and is used to increase weight savings.

Cross Carbon Drag

This drag material provides a wider range of drag settings, along with the smoothest Shimano drag performance ever.

G-Free Body

G-Free Body technology has been developed to shift the reel’s center of gravity closer to the rod. By moving the center of gravity closer to the anglers hand position, the G-Free Body helps to reduce fatigue and enhance casting comfort.

Hagane Gear

With amazing strength and durability, the HAGANE Gear is at the very heart of the reel. Shimano, through the application of state-of-the-art technologies, gives you the long-lasting smoothness and pleasure that you feel when you first use a reel, over and over again. No cutting work is applied to the teeth of the drive gear. Instead the entire surface is calculated in minute detail by special 3D design and then formed by Shimano’s cold forging technology. The result is assured resilience. It’s the fruit of Shimano’s inexhaustible pursuit for durability; the strength and power of forged metal continues to represent the fundamental concept of Shimano reels.

Long Stroke Spool

The Long Stroke Spool has longer stroke compared to conventional spool designs. This long stroke specification results in greater casting distance.

Micromodule Gear II

State-of-the-art, gear tooth surface design and MicroModule Gear II, are further advanced through Shimano’s exclusive manufacturing technology. The surfaces of the drive gear and pinion gear have been analyzed and updated from the ground up in pursuit of perfection.

One-Piece Bail

One-Piece Bail allows the line to travel unimpeded to the line roller. Its seamless design reduces friction and the change of tangles or cuts to the bail arm

Propulsion Line Management System

The most obvious component of the Propulsion Line Management System is the new Propulsion spool lip design. Through tens of thousands of casting tests and computer simulations it has been determined that this new spool lip design provides longer casting distances than a standard spool lip design while preventing backlashes and wind knots from forming.

S A-RB

These bearings have been through the same process as our A-RB bearings, but feature shields on both sides of the bearings that reduce the possibility of salt or sand inhibiting the bearing’s rotation.

Silent Drive

From the fundamental, whole body design to the most intricate parts of the drive train, including the drive gear, wormshaft, wormshaft pin and wormshaft gear, every piece has been carefully reviewed, and the smallest clearance gaps and wobbles have been eliminated to the highest tolerances.

X-Protect

By combining our water repellent coating and our specially designed, water channeling, labyrinth construction, X-Protect provides high-level water resistance without sacrificing light gear and rotor rotation.

X-Ship

X-Ship provides improved gear durability. By supporting the pinion gear on both ends with bearings, the pinion gear maintains precise alignment with the drive gear. This means the gears will stay in the same position under the heaviest loads. The added benefit is that friction between the spool shaft and gear are eliminated. This will enhance the casting performance of the reel with lighter lures, and allow for longer casts.

Models

Model	Mono Line Cap	Wt	Bearings	Ratio	Retrieve	Braid Cap	Max Drag
ULTEGRA 1000 FC	2/270, 4/160, 6/110	6.3	5+1	5.1:1	25	10/95, 15/75, 20/65	7
ULTEGRA 2500HG FC	6/200, 8/140, 10/120	7.9	5+1	6.0:1	35	10/150, 15/145, 30/100	20
ULTEGRA 4000XG FC	10/200, 12/160	9.5	5+1	6.2:1	40	15/230, 30/180, 50/120	24
ULTEGRA C3000HG FC	6/230, 8/170, 10/140	7.9	5+1	6.0:1	35	10/200, 20/140, 40/105	20
ULTEGRA C5000XG FC	12/195, 14/165	10.1	5+1	6.2:1	40	20/260, 30/235, 40/185	24

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