From Shallow-Water Giants to Deep-Sea Delicacies—The Ultimate Mid-Game Experience
The Mid Game series is designed for anglers who want to take on a wide variety of targets with ease, enjoying the thrill of the fight and the refined techniques of game fishing. Among game rods, the Mid Game series stands out for its ability to handle higher loads with confidence.
Cutting-Edge Features for Unmatched Performance:
Spiral X Core Construction: Achieves lightweight strength and high durability, ensuring powerful performance.
Tough Tech ∞ Carbon Solid Tip: Delivers exceptional sensitivity and reinforced with Hyper Power X Solid construction for increased durability.
Carbon Monocoque Grip: Newly adopted to provide clear underwater feedback, allowing anglers to feel even the slightest changes in the water.
X-Seat Technical Gun Grip (Front Trigger Design):
Enhances palm-fit comfort for superior control.
Enables precise, delicate lure manipulation and stability during battles.
(HH models feature the X-Seat Extreme Gun Grip for even greater control.)
With the new Mid Game XR, experience deeper, more refined offshore fishing—tackle anything from shallow-water bruisers to premium deep-sea species with confidence and finesse.
64MH240
This rod excels at stabilizing the bait during rod-rest fishing, ensuring excellent bite detection. It demonstrates impressive resilience when bent, making it ideal for various applications. Perfect for catching sea bream, yellowtail, and using heavy sinkers for species like horse mackerel, red snapper, and even flatfish in chum fishing
KEY FEATURE: A New Mid-Game Fishing Experience
Experience the ultimate in mid-range fishing, designed for targeting a variety of species from shallow bays to continental shelves at depths of 30 to over 200 meters. From madai, warasa, and hirame to oni kasago, akajika, and kinme, this rod is built to handle weights from 40 to 250g, providing a fresh approach to enjoying every catch in the mid-range fishing world.
Mid Game XR: Evolving the Mid-Range Experience
The Mid Game XR series is designed for the evolving needs of anglers seeking deeper engagement with each catch. Whether you're dealing with drop-baiting, live-baiting, or high-load fishing techniques, the Mid Game XR offers enhanced sensitivity and improved operability, thanks to Shimano's latest rod technologies.
Even when switching to heavier weights like 150-200g for species like akajika or oni kasago, this rod maintains outstanding sensitivity and operability, with minimal loss of power, ensuring a smooth and enjoyable fishing experience.
X-Seat Technical Gun Grip: Ergonomically Designed for Comfort
The X-Seat Technical Gun Grip is designed to provide maximum comfort and superior operability throughout long fishing sessions. The grip has been downsized without sacrificing the stability and fatigue-reducing features of the Extreme Gun Grip. With an easy-to-use trigger design at the front, it allows for precise rod movements, improving the overall experience while fighting fish.
This grip enhances both stability and sensitivity, providing improved control in challenging situations, especially when dealing with high-load fishing. It reduces the likelihood of strain on the fingers and wrist, helping prevent issues like tendonitis during prolonged use.
The "Third Sensitivity": Feeling the Sea Bed and Tides
The Mid Game XR features Carbon Monocoque Grip, which amplifies the third type of sensitivity—the tactile feedback from the bottom structure and tide flow resistance, enhancing your ability to detect even the smallest changes in the underwater environment. This "third sensitivity" offers crucial information, allowing you to feel the seabed and the movement of tides, giving you better awareness of the fishing conditions.
9 Models for Every Type of Fishing
With 9 different models, you can select the perfect rod based on your target species, field conditions, and fishing techniques. Available in 64, 73, and 82 types, with M, MH, H, and HH hardness levels, these rods cater to a wide variety of fishing environments and techniques:
64 Models: Ideal for coarse fishing or flounder fishing in shallow waters.
73 Models: Versatile and suitable for species like amadai, oni kasago, aji, and tachiuo.
82 Models: Specifically designed for deep-sea fishing and squid fishing.
Solid Tip Exchange Support: Long-Term Use
The solid tip is a critical component for any rod, and Shimano has designed replaceable tips to support long-term use. In case of any damage, you can replace the solid tip via Shimano's repair service, ensuring your rod remains reliable and in top condition.
With the Mid Game XR, Shimano offers anglers an opportunity to experience deep, refined, and exciting fishing adventures, whether on the shore or offshore, with unmatched performance, sensitivity, and ease of use.
FEATURE
X-Sheet Technical Gang Grip (except for 73HH210):
The "Extreme Gang Grip," which reduces fatigue by allowing the wrist and palm to remain nearly straight while wrapping the fingers around the grip, has evolved. The grip maintains its fatigue-reducing and stability properties while adding a trigger section at the front to improve operability. It fits a wide range of reel sizes and is universal for both right and left-handed users.
X-Sheet Extreme Gang Grip (73HH210):
The left and right-specific design maximizes contact between the palm and grip, holding the rod with the entire palm. This reduces reel wobble by 30%* and palm load by up to 45%* during reeling. This grip minimizes power loss, ensuring no disadvantage during hook-setting or fights. Once you experience the X-Sheet Extreme Gang Grip, you won’t want to go back to a regular grip. (*Compared to previous models)
Carbon Monocoque Grip:
The rear grip is made from a carbon monocoque structure, making it lightweight with excellent sensitivity and transmission. This allows the angler to feel underwater changes and bites through the arm or side, providing a third type of sensitivity, after visual and tactile.
Carbon Hold Position:
The carbon hold position allows for direct rod clamp fixing without the need for a spacer.
Tough Tech∞ + Hyper Power X Solid Tip:
The Tough Tech∞ carbon solid tip offers three times the winding strength and five times the winding volume compared to typical solids (based on company comparison). The tip is further reinforced with ultra-thin carbon tape to enhance twisting resistance.
The "Extreme Gang Grip," which reduces fatigue by allowing the wrist and palm to remain nearly straight while wrapping the fingers around the grip, has evolved. The grip maintains its fatigue-reducing and stability properties while adding a trigger section at the front to improve operability. It fits a wide range of reel sizes and is universal for both right and left-handed users.
The left and right-specific design maximizes contact between the palm and grip, holding the rod with the entire palm. This reduces reel wobble by 30%* and palm load by up to 45%* during reeling. This grip minimizes power loss, ensuring no disadvantage during hook-setting or fights. Once you experience the X-Sheet Extreme Gang Grip, you won’t want to go back to a regular grip. (*Compared to previous models)
The rear grip is made from a carbon monocoque structure, making it lightweight with excellent sensitivity and transmission. This allows the angler to feel underwater changes and bites through the arm or side, providing a third type of sensitivity, after visual and tactile.
The carbon hold position allows for direct rod clamp fixing without the need for a spacer.
The Tough Tech∞ carbon solid tip offers three times the winding strength and five times the winding volume compared to typical solids (based on company comparison). The tip is further reinforced with ultra-thin carbon tape to enhance twisting resistance.
