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Be sure to be honest with yourself, and spend as much as you can, but no more than you need to spend.

However, with this set up, after a cast is made, the reel is placed in your left and the handle is cranked with your right hand

I cant say I experienced any better or worse casting from them but I did feel like they had a little better action when fighting heavier/stronger fish on the lighter tackle

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As others have pointed out, those are 80lb++ reels not 50lb reels unless you are fishing straight mono line with no spectra - I fished one overnight trip in Florida and they did not want to see spectra, only mono

Knowing fishing line diameters is also useful for thinking about how lures might behave, how resilient your line is in rocks and heavy structure and how much wind resistance you will get on a cast