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Okuma Makaira MK-15II
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I live on the Sunshine Coast Queensland Australia and ocean kayak fish on average once a week as well as fish from a mates boat offshore regularly.
After thorough research on all makes of lever drag reels I chose the Makaira.
I purchased online from an Australian retailer (life time warranty outweighed cheaper prices from overseas with 5 year warranty) and waited with anticipation for the reel to arrive.
It looked and felt fantastic when removed from the box and I was straight into spooling it with the 65lb braid, once spooled I checked out...
Read more the drag and was surprised that I couldn't achieve more than 2lbs of drag at strikeand 6at full with total free spool, online research U.S Okuma website states 27lbs at strike and 34lbs at full with total free spool. Australian Okuma website does not give any information on drag capacities for the makaira range, same for other models. I rang the retailer and told him my problem, they said to send it back and they would replace it, sending it express post I was slightly disappointed so far and waited for the replacement to arrive. After three days and no reel I rang the retailer and they told me it had been sent off to the Australian distributor to be looked at, I rang the distributor and was told it had been fixed and sent back to the retailer, I rang the retailer and was told it had been sent. More days went past and no reel arrived After checking again with the retailer, we worked out it had been sent to someone else!!! At this stage I think anyone would be a more than a little upset. A whole month since original purchase. The retailer spooled the new reel and then rang and told me that it had the same problem with it's drag. I rang the distributor and was told the Australian Makaira's were supplied with the TDC drag cam only,this was a drag cam designed for light mono game fishing and even though it could achieve 34lbs of drag it lost free spool at 6lbs. This was no good for my style of fishing, I wanted high drag with free spool to fish reef. Okuma Taiwan was cc'd email correspondence and eventually the standard cam was sent.
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