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12-26-2006, 09:08 AM
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Plug Builder in Training
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: wareham MA
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K2 buys Penn
It's official K2 parent company of Shakespeare just purchased Penn.
So how soon do you think they will move all Mfg overseas.
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12-26-2006, 09:38 AM
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Keep The Change
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Road to Serfdom
Posts: 3,275
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The flow of cheap goods from China is the only thing that is keeping the masses from revolting....
Shouldn't be long..
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“It’s not up to the courts to invent new minorities that get special protections,” Antonin Scalia
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12-26-2006, 10:36 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 833
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Time to buy another International or three and put them on the shelf . . .
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12-26-2006, 11:20 AM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
Posts: 8,158
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The International baitcasters are crap to begin with. They can make them on Mars for all I care--I'm never buying another one. Plastic bridge plate, jack-in-the-box free spool, and level wind pawls that wear out in a month. No thanks 
The only good surf useable reel Penn's come out with in the last 20 years is the 525 Mag. And they stopped making most of their old workhorses. |
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
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12-26-2006, 05:23 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Burlington
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low & slow 37
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12-26-2006, 09:46 PM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
Posts: 9,511
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K2
Is that the ski equipment company?
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Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
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12-27-2006, 08:07 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 7,649
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I have a few of the intern'l baitcasters and have given them the duty of fluke fishing from a boat. They do a good job there. I don't like the button either and the paws do wear but make it thru a season of fluking.
IMO penn has got too much heat from Asia, there is no way they can compete unless they follow the leaders.
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12-27-2006, 12:00 PM
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Been many moons
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Aquidneck Island
Posts: 400
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Swimmer
Is that the ski equipment company?
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same thing I was wondering |
Standing on the water, casting your bread
While the eyes of the idol with the iron head are glowing
Distant ships sailing into the mist
You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing
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12-27-2006, 02:53 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Hard aground
Posts: 1,362
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ChiefLinesider
same thing I was wondering
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Yes so I have been told |
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12-27-2006, 03:10 PM
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Wipe My Bottom
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 1,911
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here is the corporate website.
http://www.k2inc.net/about/default.asp
i just lobbed a call over to k2's investor relations guy, i'll see if i can dig up a few more details. |
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12-28-2006, 11:21 AM
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M.S.B.A.
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: I live in the Villiage of Hyannis in the Town of Barnstable in the Commonwealth of MA
Posts: 2,795
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The Mag-Elite was re-released last year under a similar but slightly different name. They are exact copies made in Sweden.
Back on topic. I had the privilidge to see a prototype of a Penn Mag 515. Same housing as the Mag 525 but with a smaller spool and a few other tweaks. I know Penn has been falling behind but the Mag 525 & when/if released the Mag 515 seem to be good products for those that can throw non-levelwind reels.
Quote:
Originally Posted by gone fishin
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"It is impossible to complain and to achieve at the same time"--Basic Patrick (on a good day)
 
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12-28-2006, 01:34 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: whaling city
Posts: 302
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K2 made a really durrable ski, maybe they can bring this to reels
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12-29-2006, 12:59 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
Posts: 806
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Whatever happened to the updated 706 or 704 they were supposed to come out with in the Fall? Think this will nix it?
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12-29-2006, 01:48 PM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
Posts: 8,158
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rebaalk
Whatever happened to the updated 706 or 704 they were supposed to come out with in the Fall? Think this will nix it?
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I'll believe it when I see it.
A Penn rep recently chimed in on this over on SOL and said they were probably still a year or so away.
It's not like they're designing the replacement for the space shuttle--you're talking about one of the simplest pieces of machinery on the market |
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