DAIWA Shot Viper Hirame 255

Fitted with a Solid Power Slim blank built around a core of the high-modulus carbon solid "Mega Top R." Pursues the highest-class bite-taking performance and cushioning in DAIWA flounder-rod history.

Pursues the highest-class bite-taking performance and cushioning in DAIWA flounder-rod history. Section #1 uses the high-modulus carbon solid "Mega Top R," achieving a level of light weight, slimness, and sensitivity that sets it apart from any other full-solid rod. On top of that, this "Mega Top R" is combined with a variety of carbon and glass sheets, including the ultra-high-density glass "SVF Glass," in a Solid Power Slim structure — keeping the cushioning unique to a full-solid rod while adding power and handling. It lets fish take the bait naturally with the outstanding bite-taking performance a full-solid rod is known for, and once hooked, its seemingly endless toughness won't let even a large flounder get away. DAIWA's new flagship flounder rod.

DAIWA Technology

Mega Top R
A high-modulus carbon solid tip that combines "Mega Top" — a carbon solid with fibers and resin evenly distributed throughout — with Toray's TORAYCA T1100G, using DAIWA's own manufacturing technology. Development was carried all the way down to the resin itself, achieving a major boost in sensitivity along with high-response handling.

X45
To prevent the twisting that occurs during casting, action, hooksets, and fights, years of research led to the conclusion that, on top of the conventional structure (0° and 90° relative to the rod tip), wrapping a "45°" bias cross — carbon fiber angled at ±45° — is the optimal way to prevent twist. By adopting X45, twist is prevented, and power, handling, and sensitivity are all dramatically improved.
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SVF Glass
An ultra-high-density glass that reduces resin content to the same degree as SVF carbon, packing in more glass fiber to achieve lightness, toughness, and suppleness.

Air Sensor Seat
The Air Sensor Seat, which incorporates carbon fiber, achieves light weight, high strength, and high sensitivity. It's purpose-designed for each rod's intended use, delivering a level of handling that a generic reel seat simply can't match.

ESS — Expert Sense Simulation
When a rod bends, it generates energy (restoring force) that works to straighten it back the other way. This is "strain energy" — the energy stored in a deformed (strained) blank as it tries to return to its original shape — and it's an extremely important factor in determining a rod's performance. DAIWA developed its own system for analyzing and designing around this "strain energy," making it possible not only to clearly quantify where a blank excels and where it falls short, but also to reflect the angler's own sensibility in the design — bringing the rod ever closer to what anglers are actually looking for.

Product Details

Fitted with the high-modulus, high-strength carbon solid Mega Top R
By using a Solid Power Slim blank built around a core of the high-modulus carbon solid "Mega Top R," it keeps the cushioning and power unique to a full-solid rod while achieving, at a high level, a light weight and high handling that a glass solid simply can't match. Light enough to work all day held in hand, it also delivers outstanding bite-taking performance when left as a rod holder rod.

Fused with the ultra-high-density glass "SVF Glass"
A Solid Power Slim structure built around Mega Top R, fused with the ultra-high-density glass "SVF Glass," adds the toughness unique to glass while keeping resin content low for a lighter weight.

A 6:4 taper excellent in bite-taking performance and cushioning
A supple tip and second section let the fish take the bait naturally, and once hooked, the rod bends firmly to prevent it from throwing the hook. Because Mega Top R is used as the core material, it also achieves tactile sensitivity that sets it apart from a glass solid, letting you sense the exact moment the hook sets in a flounder's mouth. (Photo shows a prototype rod.)

A new Shot Viper design. A special mottled-pattern finish, hand-applied by craftsmen, with no two rods ever exactly alike.

Finished in a special paint that shifts from red to gold depending on the viewing angle.

Fully equipped with gold IP-coated LC guides that resist line tangles.

An eye-catching double anodized nut.

Double anodized rings fitted at both ends of the separated section.

A gorgeous, ornate metal holder pipe.

Around the reel seat.

A butt length designed to be comfortable whether used as a rod holder rod or held by hand.