Penn Fathom II 60N

[spearo776]

Hi from Australia
Any reviews on the 60N and 80 size FathomII. Cant really find any recent reviews for these reels now that they've been fished with for a while over there in the USA

[Bill B]

That's ironic, I purchased my 60N from an Australian seller on ebay.  Haven't fished mine yet, but after spooling it with 100# braid I went to set the drag and lost free spool at 20#.  Ended up sending it back to Penn for a warranty repair and now have 25# of drag at strike.  It appears to have more in reserve but my scale tops out at 25#. 

The issue seems to be with the first production run and the handles may be suspect.  I wont know until I fish it in October.

Here's a link to the discussion.  Penn stepped up and fixed the issue without a problem.

https://alantani.com/index.php/topic,36878.0.html

 Bill