Well, this looks nothing like the review I wrote at the time I bought the reel. I used to be a big penn fan, but now I'm sticking with shimano or maybe even branching out and trying some other brands. This reel is not all that smooth and doesn't really cast that well for the price. It's probably comparable to most $30-50 reels at best in my mind. The rest of the price is for the name, which it seems has become the selling point of these reels over the actual quality. The screw that holds the bail on this reel broke in half and the reel is basically worthless to me now unless I can find a way to get the broken off part out and feel like spending $5-10 on a new screw from Penn. Already bought a $30 shimano to get me by for the time being and I'm not sure it wasn't at least an even trade. Disappointing product to carry the Penn name.