I forked over the extra dough 3 years ago and bought me a Shimano Sedona Spinning reel, its held up to anything and everything Ive thrown at it. By the way I would highly not reccomend any abu spinning reels, each one I have used had crapped out on me after 1 years use. For some reason I either always get the bad reels out of the batch or they are juss crap.