KastKing Kapstan & Elite Saltwater Spinning Fishing Reels

I have 10 penn spinfisher reals . They are all over 4 years old and are still smooth . This real is a couple months old and already sticking . The knob on the reel falling off non stop didnt really bother me but the reel itself now becoming useless so fast is . Oddly i splurged on the real since it costs as much as a penn rod/ reel combo. But its sad its junk Update: kastking sent me a new reel free of charge without me requesting it . I wanted to test the reel before updating my review . Its been a few months and many hours of saltwater fishing . The new reel has held up perfectly . The first one musta been a lemon. I really like the reel . Its very smooth. I will update again if things change . I expect any higher end reel to last at least 1 year .

Edit: Kastking tried to help solve my issues and suggested sending another one incase the one I got turned out to be defective. Happy to say the new one has been good so far, not sure what the deal was with the first one I got but overall pretty happy about the replacement. Thanks again. Sure its smooth out of the box but no really compared to the same price point of its competitors. For over 150 its feels like a scam. The quality is just not there with the very flimsy bait arm with crazy amount of flex to the subpar drag system. The line roller barely rolls and that is going to be a huge problem with braid. It does look cool but nothing screams buy me, just get a penn,shimano or daiwa

I was not a fan of KastKing until this reel. Very Very nice. Yes, it's heavy but suck it up because it's worth it. Have already bought another variation.

A very nice spinning reels..perfectly made✨✨✨✨✨I spooled a 355+ yard of mono 25lbs on it.. I love it for real🤙🤙🤙so smooth like a Tennessee whiskey😉😉😉

Only had it out a few times and suddenly it stopped winding. Took it apart and found that one of the gear supports had cracked. It was cheap cast metal, I tried to find a replacement but had no luck. Might try to 3D print something, but in any case the internals of this reel are junk.

Giving it three stars it feels good but a little hard to turn isn’t fluid but overall like it

Got this for salmon fishing and it has held up well to some really big fish on strong fast runs. The drag is smooth and powerful for those 20+ lbs. fish

UPDATE: The customer service at Kastking is amazing! there were able to help me fix the issue and get me back out fishing quickly! The reel is great, and hopefully my issue was an exception, but so far everything is working great! One month in and the bay line broke. It’s past the return window and now I can’t return or replace it…