DAIWA Shunei Tenya Tachiuo EX R-SPEC 82-170

A handling-focused series that thoroughly strips away every ounce of excess for a dramatic reduction in weight.
The lightest, fastest machine — "R-SPEC."

Weight was pursued down to the 0.01g across every part, the blank, and even the paint. Design this precise — like assembling a piece of precision machinery — demanded boundless passion, advanced skill, and years of work.

The blank is the first to feature "SVF Compile-X Nanoplus," a long-standing goal finally realized. Fusing ultra-high-density carbon, with resin thoroughly reduced, with the 3rd-generation carbon "M40X" achieves both lighter weight and excellent tactile sensitivity and handling.

The tip uses DAIWA's own high-modulus, high-strength carbon solid "Mega Top R," gaining new balance performance through the synergy between excellent tactile sensitivity and blank weight. For its components, it uses the "AGS R Frame" — combining a carbon frame that's more sensitive and lighter than titanium with a lightweight, thin-walled ring — along with the "Zero Seat Cavity Trigger," with its groundbreaking hollowed-out construction, firmly cementing the idea that "lightness is sensitivity."

While optimizing real-world fishing performance, everything that can be stripped away is stripped away, without compromise — but never at the cost of power. The revolutionary lightness and real-world performance DAIWA offers here leads anglers into a new realm of awareness.

Choosing between the "Kyokuei" and "Shunei" series
By switching between "Kyokuei," with its SMT tip, and "Shunei," with its Mega Top R tip, you can find the ideal answer for every situation.

■ Kyokuei Series
Making the most of the bite-taking performance that comes from "SMT's" suppleness, along with excellent overall sensitivity (visual + tactile), it performs in every situation thanks to its versatility — not least when fish are finicky and low on activity. Both visual and tactile sensitivity are outstanding, letting you feel bites through both eye and hand, which helps deliver a stable catch. In fishing like tenya tachiuo, where the rig is kept suspended in open water at all times, "SMT's" bite-taking performance really shines.

■ Shunei Series
An aggressive series armed with the tactile sensitivity of the high-modulus carbon solid "Mega Top R" to instantly detect a fish, plus well-paced enticement and split-second hooksets that make the most of a carbon solid's response. It concedes some versatility to the Kyokuei series, but depending on the situation — especially when fish are highly active — it can deliver explosive results. In tenya tachiuo fishing, it's ideal for tournament situations where instant hooksets pay off, and for a vibration technique specialized around working the tenya when fish are highly active.

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.

Zero Seat
Zero Seat is a new reel-seat design philosophy aimed at letting anglers enjoy fishing wholeheartedly, free of stress.
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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.

AGS
AGS (Air Guide System), which delivers light weight and high sensitivity, uses a carbon frame. Because carbon offers roughly three times the rigidity of titanium, it transmits even the faintest signals carried through the line directly to the blank without absorbing them, giving it high sensitivity. Carbon's light weight also helps reduce the weight of the whole rod, and lightening the tip section in particular brings an added boost in sensitivity.

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 Compile-X Nanoplus
An ultra-lean, muscular blank built from dramatically reduced resin and a correspondingly high density of packed graphite fiber. Its high hardness and stiffness translate into outstanding information transfer, giving you sensitivity that feels like you can reach out and touch what's happening underwater. The reduced resin content also means a rank-up in both lightness and power: for the same power, you get a far lighter rod; for the same power and lightness, a far slimmer one. It's an essential blank for fishing that demands an instant reaction to a bite, letting you feel both razor-sharp sensitivity and powerful backbone in the butt. Its slim profile makes for an easy, sharp swing and accurate casts that land right on target, and its lightness lets you cast all day long. This high-performance blank is taken even further by Nanoplus technology.

Zero Seat Cavity Trigger
Zero Seat is a reel-seat design philosophy aimed at letting anglers enjoy fishing wholeheartedly, free of stress. The "Cavity (hollow) Trigger," developed based on that philosophy, aims for sensitivity through thorough weight reduction. Its outer surface, where it touches the hand, is shaped for handling, while material is hollowed out from the inside to achieve that weight reduction.

Product Details

What is the "Shunei" series?
A new series developed around handling and tactile sensitivity, fitted with DAIWA's own high-modulus carbon solid "Mega Top R." Armed with well-paced enticement and high tactile sensitivity from its high-modulus carbon solid, it enables instant hooksets. A new series that makes aggressive fishing possible, whether fish are highly active or you need a delicate enticement.

Fitted with the high-modulus carbon solid "Mega Top R," delivering high handling and tactile sensitivity
Fitted with the high-modulus carbon solid "Mega Top R," which combines "Mega Top" — a carbon solid with fibers and resin evenly distributed throughout — with Toray's TORAYCA T1100G using DAIWA's own manufacturing technology, with development carried all the way down to the resin itself to achieve a major boost in sensitivity and high-response handling. Sensitivity and handling are both dramatically improved. Increased material strength allows for a slimmer diameter. The result is a boost not just in tactile sensitivity, but in visual sensitivity too, along with a lighter weight.

The "R" — a lightest, fastest machine with every ounce of excess stripped away
Mega Top R × SVF Compile-X Nanoplus × TORAYCA M40X = the theory of the fastest rod on the boat. The excellent tactile sensitivity, handling, and agility that come from DAIWA's own high-modulus, ultra-evenly-dispersed carbon solid "Mega Top R." Fused, on top of that, with the ultra-ultra-high-density carbon "SVF Compile-X Nanoplus," pursued to the absolute limit of lightness, it gains a level of high-response handling in a different league from conventional tenya tachiuo rods. R-SPEC, built around the pursuit of the lightest weight and the fastest speed, is the answer for hooking and landing tachiuo faster than anyone else.

The rod is finished in red.

Fitted with a Zero Seat Cavity Trigger, featuring a groundbreaking hollowed-out design.

An aluminum ring is placed below the reel seat too, giving the design a sharp accent.

The butt guide uses a high-frame AGS that pairs well with electric reels too.