How many of you have owned or used a Penn 500A/L or Penn 49 sometime in their fishing career?

Have you owned a Penn 500 or Penn 49?

  • Penn 500

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  • Penn 49

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  • Both

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  • None of the above

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GTZA

Banned
[color=#006600]Patrick[/color] wrote:
Embarrassingly (or proudly depending on which way you look at it i guess)...
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For me the bracketed text. I have two 49's, and Senators 9/0 and 10/0 and they are still in regular use. The 49 with bakelite spool for R&S and a 49 with metal spool on boat. Senators on boat and for kite. All still in original condition and in perfect nick. Oldest one now going for 47 years. How's that for track record?
 
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Walt

Sealiner
Hi GT!Have you actually owned that penn 49 since new?47 years!If yes,that's some doing.I don't like to part with things and have been tempted to part with my 500 but in the end it's like part of the family-a piece of the jigsaw puzzle so to speak.Cheers!
 
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rofflign

Sealiner
yup had both,still got the 500 jigmaster,which was my 1st 'yankee' reel for my 11th birthday.lost the spare bakelite spool, but still has the original steel spool.the 49 I sold a couple of years after buying a 555gs.
 
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GTZA

Banned
Yep Walt, bought the reel for one pound eleven shillings and sixpence (=R4.00) at age 12 in standard 5. Still have the original box with price on it. Also still have the first surf rod given to me as a present by my father not long after and which has landed me my biggest barbel (19kg) with that 49. Have just now serviced and refurbished the rod and it looks brand spanking new.
 
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carcharias

Sealiner
Asome GTZA. Here I was thinking that my 30+ year old penn was probly one of the oldest around. (still works perfectly)
My parents bought me that reel and a rod for christmas about 32 years ago. I was allowed to spend R50.00. I got the rod and reel as well as line and plenty of terminal tackle and still had enough change to buy bait for the whole 3 weeks of the holiday. The good old days spent at Rocky bay caravan park.
I remember that the fish were so plentiful that if you were not hooked up in 2 minutes you had no bait on the hook.
The rocks in front of the caravan park also had so mutch crayfish that you could catch them with a rod and bait.
 
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GTZA

Banned
Aah yes carch, those were the days hey? Still remember my first trip to Cape Vidal straight out matric. Three of us in a VW Beetle. Each clubbed in R20 and we paid everything out of that, food, camp, wood, petrol etc and each got back about R2 after the week long trip. Plenty fish to catch, crayfish as you say. Had to watch out for rhino on the road at Pongola instead of cattle!
 
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On_Dad

Senior Member
ahh, gave my 500L away to brother-out-law a few years back (miss the bugger....the reel i mean) had 4 of them in the past (500L's). Learnt to cast a multiplier on a Penn 500.

Penn 49A, got a lashing for sneaking it out the house and using it ( it was dad's), brought it back with a moerse overwind.

Anyone used the seaboy/ Penn 85L? Brilliant little things for fishing in the bay for grunter.

 
 
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Fleming

New member
Haha, I used to also sneak my dads reel out the house but his was a 500. Learnt to cast with that reel. I was upset when he gave it away a few years ago.

I got 2 sea boys 85's. One plastic spool and one stainless spool. The stainless one is a bugger to cast with. I agree that they are great reels just a little slow. Need a quicker gear ratio.
 
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kp11

New member
My father bought me a penn 49 when i was 14 used for many years fishing off his boat in shelly beach and a friends father in durban. Reel was given to my nephew a few year back. He stays in canada now and still used it when he came out on holiday last year still in amazing condition (thirty six years old that reel)
 
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Mickey

Senior Member
Penn have the new TRQ100, 200 and 300 series reels that put both Shimano and Daiwa to shame. These reels are superior in drag and torque compared to the Trinidad and Saltiga's and have magnetic controlled breaking. At over R3,000 per reel they are a bit pricey, but worth every cent.

Raymond from ESA informed me on Saturday that Daiwa are bringing out a new range of Saltiga reels later this year to compete with these Penn TRQ's, i.e over 30 pounds drag.
 
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leonard williams

Senior Member
was my first reel i ever had,got it from my dad.took it to a casting compo and my mate was messing around with me,he took the sinker and started running down the air strip as a big fish would,then the guy next to me tightend the drag full quickly and the reel popped!so pist off that day.but an awesome reel.looking for a good 1.any 1 know?
 
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Volcom

Sealiner
Amazing how many people have started off with a 500. At the tender age of 8, swiped my dads maroon Penn 500. Plenty memories of the annual grunter run at St.Lucia... lol, that 500 worked those gruntings. Still a legend! Used the very same reel off my ski and still performed with numerous cuda.
 
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dugongboy

Sealiner
Replace the drag washers with smoothies ($9.00 incl postage)or carbontex and change the bakelite spool to aluminium(if needed) and you will have a great low maint. reel !
 
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leonard williams

Senior Member
yeah very little maint reel,as long as you washed it after every use,habit of a sea fisherman.well i chucked the reel cos i was to pist off.looking for a new 1
 
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Hammertime

Sealiner
Got a brand new 500 for my birthday in 80 and caught so many natal snoek and cuda on it that it was eventually retired. Have a 49 in a box here that has actually landed some decent tuna since I relocated to slaapstad.

I fought a fish for 8 hours on 6 kilo line on the 500 and it never once gave me crap.

As for now, the Penn 70VS is the bomb in my book. Nice and light and powerful, great recreational Tuna reel.
 
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camstaude

Senior Member
Penn 125 and Penn 500 were my first 2 reels for gulley and rock and surf fishing.

Both had aliminimum spools. Were such good reels. Unfortunaltey both were stolen from my house in Grahamstown so am sure they will still be doing some fishing in Kenton and PA.

Never had any problems with either of them and landed my biggest grunter 4.5 kg's in the Kariega river with the penn 125.
 
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Dorado75

Sealiner
[color=#006600]Hammertime[/color] wrote:
Got a brand new 500 for my birthday in 80 and caught so many natal snoek and cuda on it that it was eventually retired. Have a 49 in a box here that has actually landed some decent tuna since I relocated to slaapstad.

I fought a fish for 8 hours on 6 kilo line on the 500 and it never once gave me crap.

As for now, the Penn 70VS is the bomb in my book. Nice and light and powerful, great recreational Tuna reel.
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So, another member of the 8 hour club! I had mine on a Shimano 20/40! Did you land your fish? Did you see it during the fight?
 
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Patrick

Sealiner
This thread got me thinking to overhaul my Jigmaster and get her running good again, seeing that replacing throttle cables and worn petrol pumps are sapping my tackle fund! Anyone perhaps have an aluminium spool lying around from yesteryear or know where i can get it cheaper than $31.50 on the net?
 
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