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I have been looking at a lot of reviews of the Penn reels. They are vast majority are good but I noticed a pattern. The good reviews tend to go something like "I have Penn xxx reels that I have been using for 20 or 30 years and they are better than sex". The negative ones are mostly "I just bought a new Penn reel that is made in Japan and it fell apart/exploded in a ball of fire/sank the boat on the first cast". I suspect most of the gear that used to be made here in the USofA and are now made in Asia have the same kind of stories.

I think I'll roll the dice and get a couple of them anyway. My buddy could use a new boat... he just doen't know it yet ;^)