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Originally Posted by professori
I wish you had started with this information in the original post. The Okuma Sierra is a monumental piece of crap. I blew one out in a single outing and have never purchased another. There are many inexpensive to moderately priced reels out there with solid drag systems. I have 1/2 dozen Dragonfly and BFR reels that were priced below $70 that perform as well as my Sages. It really doesn't matter that much as most fish I land are handled by line stripping not with the reel. A fish only should get played on the reel if it manages to put itself there, and and then only until you can get the line back in your hand. Just my 2 cents.
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It was the Dragonfly that failed and I already got a replacement for it.
I know I'm new to the fly fishing game but why would you want to strip in 40' of line that you can get tangled in instead of simply using the reel that is there designed to gather your line.