Dude (hope you're doing well/better).
So a 150 ain't a 150 between brands. Daiwa's Tatula 150 is the same frame etc as the Tatula 200.
The 200 has roughly the same capacity etc as Shimano's 300 size. Although the Shimano feels a little more "tankish".
Confused yet?
So in effect the Tatula 150 is just a lower capacity 200, but structurally the same.
A Shimano 150 or 200 is like a level smaller capacity wise.
A Shimano 200 is not even remotely close to a Tatula 200... The notion that they are comparable is laughable.
I throw swimbaits up to 3 oz with a 15? year old Shimano Citica 201 E.
2-5oz rod has a Daiwa Catalina TWS (sort of 150 size)
4-8oz rod has a Tatula 200.
Never an issue with any of them up to 7lb bass and several big Pike and Musky.
The idea that the weight of a bait will destroy a reel makes no sense and sort of a flat earth mentality. Your thumb supports the spool when getting ready to cast, the bearings support during. None of the internal parts get any wear in those steps of the process. The bait lands, reel engaged... now you are reeling in the bait. (Sort of a rhetorical question coming up) What freakin' bait are you reeling in that has more resistance than a fighting 4lb bass? To be clearer, no bait strains a reel upon retrieve more than the strain it experiences when fighting even a 1lb fish, let alone a 5 or 10... if a bait wears a reel out then our reels would last a couple fish then need to be replaced.
Now if you early engage or don't fully disengage the reel on a cast or pull snags without thumbing the spool (bends axle or reforms the spool) then yeah the reel breaks but that's not because of the reel or lure.
Get the Daiwa 150 OR a Curado 200 and you'll be fine.
