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Under the Japan catalogue, there is no Fuego LT. Thus this reel belongs to the US or Europe market and even between those 2 markets, there are slight differences.
In US, there is 5 models from 1000 to 4000 and has 6 ball bearings + 1 roller bearing. Drag from 8 to 26.5lbs.
http://www.daiwa.com/us/contents/reels/fuegolt/index.html
Europe models have more choices, 8 sizes from 1000 to 6000 and have 6 ball bearings. Drag ranges from 4 to 12kg.
http://www.daiwa-cormoran.info/.../5,1,74,75,1,1...
Freams LT have 14 choices from 1000 to 6000, 5 ball bearings + 1 roller bearing and drag ranges from 5 to 12 kgs.
http://www.daiwa.com/.../reel/spin_rl/18_freams/index.html
The old Fuego was a very light model which is better than the old Freams. As for the new LT models, I have not handled them, but judging from the specs, the Freams is still slightly heavier by approx 10gms in the same size.
I would suspect the difference being from the new carbon fiber DS5 body of the Fuego LT.
And what I liked about the old Fuego was that it came with 2 metal spools. Not sure about the new one though.
Looking toe the size 3000 which weight only 210gm.