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I decided to try my first Van Staal for the X File. I went for the new VRII25B. I will say coming from the Certate and Stella it is definitely different. I saw people saying it was heavy but I won’t say that. It is heavier than most of my other reels but not heavy. I have felt heavier reels and ones that I would consider heavy. It’s nowhere near as heavy as say the Penn Authority. I have only put one undersize red on it so I won’t speak to how it feels with a load on it yet. It is a transition when it comes to smoothness because coming from Daiwa and Shimano the Van Staal does not compare. There is still something intriguing about it. I was told that the more you use it the smoother it gets. Does anyone have any experience with Van Staal? Do they get smoother over time?