OKUMA CONVECTOR VS COLD WATER

[jeffro9]

Looking at purchasing some 30 size okuma reels. Are the cold waters worth the extra bit of money over the convectors for a weekend warrior?

 

 

[sherman brown]

I've had a few convectors for a while. and they are great reels. but when i went to update my old daiwa sg17lca reels I bought 4 of the cold water reels. i haven't actually used the cold water reels yet. but they feel much better and I think they are much smoother than the convectors. and so far they are well worth the extra money. I bought mine off eBay at a good price.

[Zinger11]

I have 12 cold water reels that I wasn't impressed with when I first got them than I changed them over to the fiber drags and couldn't be Happer with them now

[FishingFool34]

20 hours ago, Zinger11 said:

I have 12 cold water reels that I wasn't impressed with when I first got them than I changed them over to the fiber drags and couldn't be Happer with them now

Same here, something about a plastic drag washer and some concave washer orientation (There's a write up on it, on this site someplace). Once those issues were taken care of I haven't had any problems since. You would be fine with convectors as well. I run convectors on all of my Brown Trout setups without issue.