Love it. Love Penn products. Love pennoutlet.com. I always use Uglystiks, but I bought a small real, a 4000 so I figured I’d pick up this Mariner iii 30-50lbs rod. I live the triangular EVA grips and butt gimbal. It’s only 6.6ft but good for boat fishing. It arrived boxed and secured with snap ties and wrapped in plastic. No damage to eyelets. Perfect and box had no damage. The bottom half of rod is red and upper half is black. Very close to ugly Stik in quality. I think the tip may be just a touch stiffer than Uglystik. Over all, awesome war-stick. I bought the Northshore fishing rod protective sleeve for it also. Use them on all my rods. Neoprene. You’ll love them. 52” fits 6.6ft perfect. Now get off the couch and go hook some lip. 😉 happy fishing…

I grew up fishing with Penn reels, then I moved away from the coast for about 12 years. Now I'm back and I thought I'd restock on the gear that I knew and loved back then. I bought this Penn reel about a year ago now and have been fishing with it that entire time. I have to say that the quality of this reel is not anywhere close to the Penn I remember back in the day. They look the same but there is something different here. The spool has a lot of play (maybe even a quarter inch up and down) after the drag adjustment has been screwed down. The drag adjustment is amazingly bad. It is nothing like the old Penns. It is not anywhere near sensitive enough. You tighten or loosen the drag several turns and it seems to do nothing until you get to a very sensitive area. And then in just a few clicks one way or the other the drag is too loose or too tight. And I still can't figure out what the heck this "live liner" switch is on the bottom. No instructions came with the reel to explain its operation. I keep this as a back up reel but have since purchased a Pflueger reel and I am much happier with it, as well as it being slightly over half the cost of this Penn. I used to be a big Penn fan, but I'm sad to say this will be my last Penn purchase. The price is just too high and the quality isn't there anymore. I'll keep my eyes open for vintage Penn gear, but I'm done with the new stuff.

MUY BUENO A PRECIO ACEPTABLE

I have the 3000 and 4000 sizes with 30 lb powerpro and both operate very smooth have held up to many hundreds of huge redfish, trout, and snook over the past few years. on a fluke cast with the 3000 series hung a 7' Tarpon and fought it for 2hrs of reeling and burning out until we landed it and the reel still work like it was new.

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