Quote Originally Posted by "G" View Post
Pappy...both brands that I bought came with both handles in the box.
I bought my ATS reels at my local Cabela's, specifically because they didn't have any more Okuma 15's ... and I no longer have the boxes they came in, which tells me that there were no second sets of handles in those boxes. Not that I would have wanted them, but I certainly wouldn't have thrown them away.

I do have a Okuma Magda 15DXT-T box & the schematics paper doesn't show anything but the double handle. I bought this one at Cabela's, too, but put it on my PST rod for cranks & don't use it for jigs, so I tend to forget that I have it since I don't Push cranks all that often.

That one Okuma & the two ATS reels were bought a couple years ago (4yrs ago or more ) and the used Okuma's I bought from Chucky were prior to that ... and he had them for many years before that. I remember him saying he bought them for around $25/ea back then, but can't remember where he said he got them.