I have 4 stradics and 3 sols of various sizes. Both awesome reels,but the sols are prone to rust around the handles, $80 replacement. Havings said that, on my 2500 sol I have caught many dollies and good snapper. I think they are on par but for the stadics faster retrieve of 6.1 on the smaller 3000s etc. Make spinning for macs and tuna a little bit easyier.
Cheers John.