I took a Crosscast with me up the far north as my submarine reel(wading), handled well, tho the drag tensioning is quite all on or all off. Pros are nice deep long cast spool, lightweight, and best feature that all reels should have is the bail lock system, to stop those un-foreseen bustoffs. The okuma axeon and oryx were shockas for that. Daiwa em cast is hard to go past at those pingers round 250