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BassyiusMaximus · 01-02-2007, 02:16 PM

These SS's have to be the Chevy small-block V8 of the fishing reel world, they take abuse and with a few parts keep going.

My Dad cracked two of the reel-seats from tilting the outboard motor onto the reels as they were seated in the rodholders in the back of the boat, we have since moved the rodholders to the inboard side of the wave-gate and I bought 2 new reel bodies from Penn, exchanged all the parts and the reels were like new again. The simplicity of the insides and the ready availability of parts makes them easy to work on and going. Granted the reels are heavy and are not as silky smooth as many others, but by darned, they take a licking and keep on ticking, besides from the bail wire breaking, the reels have never let me down on any fish.

01-02-2007, 02:16 PM	#8
BassyiusMaximus Registered User Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 353	These SS's have to be the Chevy small-block V8 of the fishing reel world, they take abuse and with a few parts keep going. My Dad cracked two of the reel-seats from tilting the outboard motor onto the reels as they were seated in the rodholders in the back of the boat, we have since moved the rodholders to the inboard side of the wave-gate and I bought 2 new reel bodies from Penn, exchanged all the parts and the reels were like new again. The simplicity of the insides and the ready availability of parts makes them easy to work on and going. Granted the reels are heavy and are not as silky smooth as many others, but by darned, they take a licking and keep on ticking, besides from the bail wire breaking, the reels have never let me down on any fish.