Buying a new reel

[chingweiliao]

Hi S-B:

I have purchased okuma through mike's recommendation ( M&D) three months ago. And I experience following problems:

1. After fight the big fish (>34 ") for a while (>10 minutes) my spool will occasionaly go free for a few turns (not because it exceed the drag I set, it go out freely without grag like it is lack of a brake) then go back to normal (I might lost my fish during its fight for the sudden lose in the line, but I am lucky I did not)
2. This friday, I found my bait runnder reel can only stay at bait running mode no matter how I set the switch after I caught a 30" bass (out of order after three months for hooking only 4 keeper on it the biggest is 34")

Although, I open the reel and

a. clean it up
b. lubricate it
c. adjust the seal

open, close and run it twenty times and eventually fixed it (I do not know how I fixed it) and work it on my 37" inch last night. I got the feeling it will all-of-the sudden fail on me, since I still do not know its problem casuing above two failures.

Regards,

Ching-Wei Liao