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Van Staal has a following among the best surfcasters that is hard to argue with.
The guys who fish Penn and can break them down and fix what needs fixing with their eyes closed (like Paul I, and several other regulars here) for them its a good reel.
But the guys who fish them because they are all they can afford without those maintainance skills, they are usually fishing a reel that is in a bad state. Penns are known as tanks; but they are also known for grinding, siezing, uneven drag, terrible anti-reverse, bail slamming on the cast, bailsprings breaking, etc.
Sooner or later, those problems come back to haunt people who can't circumvent them on the tool bench.
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