Video: New PENN Low Profile LP500

[Tunanorth]

[steelfish]

nice, I will put it on my Birthday list of presents for next year 

[MarkT]

What's up with the tacky looking gold handle side disk? Penn has a thing about gold, but really?

[ExcessiveAngler]

Was previously looking at this at one tackle shop on backorder. The video posted states "guys you're just gonna have to trust me on this one, it his a massive stainless steel gear in here" The Description at Melton tackle says otherwise. Says the Fathom 500LP has a brass main gear and bronze pinion gear? Can you clarify this please? That's a pretty big error in advertising information.

[MarkT]

Both gears being stainless is strongest!

[Tunanorth]

Hmm, not sure what happened to my original answer.
Anyway, yes, the gears [both main and pinion] are stainless on the LP500.
It looks like Melton's IT dept. just used the info from the current [smaller] models.

[Gfish]

2 types of Cast control; external looks like magnetic? The other, centrifugal or friction?

[ExcessiveAngler]

Yeah, that's pretty silly on their part. They really should correct that. Thanks for clearing things up. Can't wait for somebody to get a hold of it and give us a peek inside. Looks like it would be a hell of a surf reel too. Does the mag dial indicator happen to be the same one, as on the other Fathom and Squall casting reels?

[Tunanorth]

2 types of Cast control; external looks like magnetic? The other, centrifugal or friction?

Centrifuge.

[Tunanorth]

Yeah, that's pretty silly on their part. They really should correct that. Thanks for clearing things up. Can't wait for somebody to get a hold of it and give us a peek inside. Looks like it would be a hell of a surf reel too. Does the mag dial indicator happen to be the same one, as on the other Fathom and Squall casting reels?

Not like the larger Fathom/Squall conventional reels.
Pretty much the same as the current smaller Low Profile models.