Okuma makes some really good stuff, but they also recently were discovered by the chains, whose marketing gurus got them to make more variety and cheaper stuff.
My first Okuma piece was a fly box, a copy of an English one and just as good. Some of their saltwater spinning reels are a steal.
The only ones I have handled were about $130.00.
That gets into the money range of some proven reels, like Orvis and Ross.
