I have several Curados and like them a lot, but don’t like the new price tag on them. I also have two Basspro Rick Clunn reels that I really like and a Johnny Morris that I like. I use the newer Rick Clunn almost 1/2 of the time. I see they have a new model for this year. I bought my son a Cabela’s Prodigy last spring on sale and he had good luck with it. It is a very smooth reel for the $. The Podigy and Clunn’s are less than $100 and IMHO well worth looking at.