Man slammer 3 is the best reel ever made by Penn. I just hate the auto bail close shit thing. I lost a lot of lures on that. Lucky, I manage to make it into Manuel.
I hope they also changed the main spool shaft metal to stainless steel. I have issue with the penn slammer 3 as the threads slowly stripping away over time as you adjusting your drag knob fighting the fish. I have mine replace withing 6 months of used and the new shaft i ordered is also slowly erode away(the thread getting thinner). The "titatium coat" dosent seem to last as they advertised. I think the metal inside the knob has more hardness than the main spool shaft metal.
@@Jessewrightfishing maybe not stainless main gear wearing on stainless pinion gear will wear just as quick and be noisier to hard metals against each other
Love penn but just dont like the idea of DX like the battle 3 the DX was a 5$ difference they should just get rid of the standard option and have the DX as the standard if you know what i mean
@@minicopilot1 It's a little big for what I've been doing. Even with throwing large swimbaits and jigs for Snook/Tarpon. The 8500 might be a tad larger or it might just have a larger rotpr and spool. I should have looked more at the size comparisons when I was at ICAST. I'm gonna keep fishing this 7500 until I can get my hands on a 5500. That seems to be the size I prefer for our fish.
Icast this icast that. I'll never have to buy a Chinese made piece of crap reel again. I bought a vintage Penn 704 greenie on eBay unused, 160 bucks. Will last literally forever. These Chinese garbage reels will be in a landfill in about 5 years.
