Daiwa Kohga series of reels and rods were designed specifically with the Japanese Sea Bream (‘Tai’) in mind. Though Daiwa has used existing reel platforms for the Kohga series, each of these reels have been tweaked with slightly different specifications to suit the light tackle ‘Tai Rubber’ (Kabura-style) or ‘Tai Tenya’ (jighead/bait combo) fishing methods that are commonly used by Japanese anglers to catch Sea Bream. To cater to these Sea Bream anglers, Daiwa Kohga reels are designed with gear ratios between 5.6 to 6.0, an ideal ratio for working the bottom with Tai Rubber or Tenya rigs. This gear ratio is a good balance between speed and power to work the jigs and crank up big fish should the need arise. ‘Tai’ are not line burners, so it’s not necessary to have a lot of line loaded into the reel, hence the ‘shallower-than-standard’ spools in the Kohga line-up. That said, these spools are by no means small in line capacity as they are capable of holding at least 200m of PE#0.8!