I also have an efx 30, Okuma, and I love it, after the handle went south, I reverse engineered the handle system, and milled a small flat where the pin goes into the drive of the handle, reamed it .0005 under @ .1245 and press fit a .125 machine pin, into the reamed hole, the handle will no longer collapse (who uses this feature anyway?) but the handle is rock solid, and I have caught quite a few fish on the reel since then, both Salmon, and Steelhead, and zero problems, its a smooth reel and holds more line than a shimano 2000 series, but not as big and clunky, as a 4000 series, if shimano made a 3000 I would by it, until then, the Okuma works great.

Fuzzy

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