I have two of these rods, medium/heavy 7 ft 50/100lb paired with a Penn Slammer III 7500's spooled with 65lb PowerPro braid. With 50lbs of drag, using the Dura-Drag system, the same silky smooth indestructible drag system as Penn International's, you will NOT find a better spinning reel combo for the money. This is an awesome general all purpose rig! Whether you are bottom fishing, high speed or slow pitch jigging, trolling, or casting, from Snapper, Cobia, Amber Jack, Kingfish, Mahi, to Grouper, Blackfin or Yellowfin, this rig won't disappoint! Infinitely better drag system and more line holding capacity then any other in this class such as the Daiwa BG. If you are looking for a general purpose, all around offshore spinning rod / reel combo, look no further!

I have use the penn battle regularly. When I got this package everything looked great. Rod had no bent eyes or damage to rod. Reel looked clean and no obvious defects on first glance. But first time I used it I noticed casting reeling the line would snag making it jerk around. Tried a few times on the rod and then took the line out. The action felt fine ok wth. Looked closer and saw the reel has a twist and bend in it. Which threw off alignment with the rod. I don’t believe this is damage from shipping as there a no marks on the finish and no damage to box it came in. With the bend and twist being as severe as they are I would think the cast body would snap with the pressure needed to do that.