Iwanakeepa,
That's my line of reasoning. Go cheap and have fun!
No one has made a sealed conventional because there is such a small percentage of guys who enter the water with a reel and a still smaller group that uses a conventional to plug with. To give you an example there are four guys I know of on the South shore of long island that actually plug with a conventional reel. I am sure there are many more that chunk with them, but that is a different ball game all together. If the boat users found a need for a waterproof conventional it would have been done years ago.
The fact of the mater is the surf fisherman is a mere fart in a hurricane when it comes to the fishing populace. Even if they did make a sealed conventional it would be expensive and I probably wouldn't buy it if I had a reasonable alternative.
Good Luck,
Steve
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