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When it comes to designing and building a reel to cope with the extreme pressures entailed when playing huge fish, it all boils down to quality and performance. This is no time to cut corners and try to save on production costs – like The Truth About Big Game Reels many of our competitors do. Only the best quality materials and components can be used to ensure that the reel performs as it was designed to. It all begins with the frame and side plates. Penn International V-Series frames, sideplates and spools are precision machined they head down a one hundred yard long from solid forgings of a high-strength, but anodizing tank. At the end of their journey lightweight aircraft grade aluminium alloy. No half graphite or plastic bridge these components emerge bearing the rich gold colour that has been synonymous covers, just high-strength alloys. Penn International have been referred to as the Gold Standard in big game reels and one aspect of this with Penn and with the finest quality reel on the market. Internal components are crafted in an even more rigorous manner “Theirs” Two-Piece Side Plate; Part Aluminium, Part Plastic Penn One-Piece, Solid Machined Aluminium designation has been our traditional and rich-looking Gold Anodising. Frames, side plates, than the frames. Our gears begin their life on a Swiss-made ‘Gear Hobber’ where the stainless gear blanks are precision machined to tolerances so tight that our Main Gears Penn 80VSW “Their” 130 and spools are carefully gears meet NASA-grade standards. As for placed onto a conveyor after being hand-polished to the guts, compare the gears from a Penn International to any other Big Game reel on the market and you will find that Penn High Speed 52% wider Low Speed 40% wider a mirror-like finish, where quality and durability simply outmatch the competition. Pinion Gears / Spindle Penn High Speed Gear machined as part of Spindle Low Speed Gear permanently pressed onto the Solid Spindle. Stainless Spindle engages the drag with a gear-cut machined, solid piece, keyed directly into the Drag Plate. “Theirs” Spindle engages with only a single small Pin. Pieces held together with a Pin. Dura Drag TM With more and more anglers fishing lighter lines for bigger fish, it became apparent to our engineers that a revolutionary new drag system needed to be produced. Years of extensive research has brought us the Penn Dura Drag – way ahead of its time. Durability Scientifi c tests prove that the new Penn Dura-Drag performance is unsurpassed. In laboratory testing, the new Dura- Drag sustained its original drag settings after 100-hours of drag ‘burn-time’, while our closest competitors’ materials dropped by more than 35 per cent. Compare the charts and you will see Penn Dura-Drag is the most consistent and long-lasting drag material on the Du ra-D -Dra rag market. In terms of performance and smoothness, both light-tackle and big game anglers will greatly appreciate the lack of an initial surge in drag-pressure, common in other drag materials. Smoother start-ups and more consistent drag pressures translate into fewer pulled hooks. For anglers fi shing the new Penn Dura-Drag, broken lines and lost fi sh due to intermittent and jerky drags are a thing of the past. 4 FRESH THINKING, PROVEN HERITAGE
International ® VSX Series Specifications PN2900.017 1153979 031324180208 U(a31324*LSKMKs(x INTERNATIONAL 16VSX 4 1000yds/16lb PN2900.033 1153980 031324180215 U(a31324*LSKMLp(u INTERNATIONAL 30VSX 4 700yds/30lb PN2900.052 1153981 031324180222 U(a31324*LSKMMm(W INTERNATIONAL 50VSX 4 550yds/50lb PN2900.130 1153977 031324180185 U(a31324*LSKLSp(u INTERNATIONAL 130VSX 6 1000yds/130lb 4.25:1 high 1:7.1 low 3.8:1 high 1:6.1 low 3.1:1 high 1.3:1 low 2.2:1 high 1:2.1 low 15"/381mm low 36"/914mm high 15"/381mm low 37"/940mm high 14"/346mm low 34"/864mm high 21"/533mm low 38"/965mm high 41oz/1162g 28lb 1 P440900 60oz/1701g 35lb 1 P743900 75oz/2126g 45lb 1 P245900 176oz/4990g 80lb 1 P382900 130VSX 16VSX The VSX range is one of Penn’s most impressive engineering achievements. It’s our flagship model that simply outperforms everything else available. Features This range has been designed hook, or even a snapped line! to cope with the extreme drag Penn’s engineers realised the settings required when fi shing potential problem and quickly with braided main lines. set to work on a space-age Unlike other reels, the smooth drag system that eliminates drag curve created with this the threat of lost fi sh. range gives you total confi - Extreme engineering coupled dence when playing the biggest, fastest fi sh in our oceans. materials and manufacturing with the most modern The main problem with using processes has created one of braided main lines is the speed the fi nest, most reliable reels at which a hooked fi sh can ever produced. take line from the spool. There isn’t a fi sh out there If the drag can’t cope then that can get away from a the result is often a pulled Penn International® VSX! 5
Page 1 and 2: WORKBOOK FRESH THINKING, PROVEN HER
Page 3: Index 4 The Truth About Big Game Re
Page 7 and 8: International ® Single-Speed Speci
Page 9 and 10: International ® TRQ Lever Drag Spe
Page 11 and 12: Satin finish graphite and brushed m
Page 13 and 14: If ever there was a perfect range o
Page 15 and 16: Seaboy ® Specifications PN2006.185
Page 17 and 18: Slammer ® & Slammer ® Live Liner
Page 19 and 20: Captiva ® Specifications PN2003.20
Page 21 and 22: Rod Development Here at Penn our te
Page 23 and 24: Double-figure bass performance! Fea
Page 25 and 26: Features Evo Deep Specifications Ag
Page 27 and 28: Features A range of three rods cove
Page 29 and 30: Powerstix Pro Series A rod range ac
Page 31 and 32: Specifications International ® V S
Page 33 and 34: Borrowed from a legendary Penn name
Page 35 and 36: GLD2 Boat Penn’s GLD reels have t
Page 37 and 38: Available early 2009 International
Page 39 and 40: Fathom-Master ® Specifications PN9
Page 41 and 42: Affinity Rod Holdall • Convertibl
Page 43 and 44: Penn Rod Tubes PN7000.005 PN7000.00
Page 45 and 46: There’s an entire range of qualit
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