Why a Magnesium framed reel ? Ludicrously expensive, much much more vulnerable to distortion from accidental impact damage, heavier despite all that masterful engineering (that helps make it so expensive) and spare spools are also an arm and a leg.
What is wrong with the Okuma Airframe ? For about twenty notes... The Helios frankly looks as if it is simply the Airframe but re-rendered in mag instead of graphited plastic. Get yourself a pair of Airframes plus half a dozen spare spools for the same price as one Helios ! And safe in the knowledge that it can roll down the rocky face of a reservoir dam and come up undamaged un-distorted and ready to go - whereas your magnesium joy will now resemble a twisted distorted bicycle wheel !
If you must have magnesium then why not the Okuma Magnitude ? available for as little as twenty five quid [Edit]correction, Thirty.....[/Edit] if you look....
Unless you are proposing to go bone fishing or sailfishing on the Florida salt flats then the reel is after all nothing more than a storage device.
PS. My favourite in the lightness, simplicity and spare spool stakes is the old LC series by Leeda - the LC60, LC80 and LC100 all turn up on Egay every now and then, surprisingly reasonably priced for quasi-collectable items. Simple, functional, foolproof - hell, I use them ! - and light. What's not to like.... though of course they aren't fashionable wide arbour jobbies !
