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Okuma Cold Water questions (leadcore) / riggers / dipsys)


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Im in the process of switching out my Diawa and Magda reels for the Okuma Coldwater ones.

 

Any idea if a Coldwater 303 will fit 5 colors of 15lb leadcore on it?  with 15# mono backing?  will be used for walleye on lake erie so I don't need 1000ft of total line on the reel.  Just enough backing to get my inline planar boards away from the boat.  I usually run a length of 150ft to the boards.

 

So if my math is right, I need a minimum of 250ft of backing and 150ft of leadcore (5 colors).  that's 400ft of line.

 

I think the Coldwater 303 will hold 510yds of 15lb mono.

 

Do you guys think Ill have enough room?

 

 

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Suffix 832 is the "thinner" leadcore? Is that the way to go vs standard diameter leadcore?

That should be plenty. I could easily get away with 200yds of backing.

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Only reason to run braid is it takes up less space on the reel. We run braid on longer cores and mono on sort cores.

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I will let you guys know how they perform in a few days. Going to be using them on downriggers and leadcore rods. If they do well then I'll get 2 more to run dipsys on.

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I was seriously looking at replacing my Magda reels with them. I have 4 margda reels, last year one blew out. Researched the coldwaters on this site. Got mixed opinions and reviews. Kindalike Chevy/Ford I think in the end.

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