I don't Ditch fish much but I've had both a 7000C which I sold and a CL Big Game that someone STOLE

and I honestly feel the Big Game was a substantially better caster than the C model. Night & Day difference. But I had not used the C all that often and was told that the bushing model needs a lot of time to break in well to really loosen up. The CL was ready right off the bat.
Between the 2, I would pay the extra dinero and get the CL, no question in my mind

. I was using these mostly with bigger plugs and often on my XRA1205