Penn Fishing

This range has been designed to cope with the extreme drag settings required when fishing with braided main lines. Unlike other reels, the smooth drag curve created with this range gives you total confidence when playing the biggest, fastest fish in our oceans.

The main problem with using braided main lines is the speed at which a hooked fish can take line from the spool. If the drag can't cope then the result is often a pulled hook, or even a snapped line! Penn’s engineers realised the potential problem and quickly set to work on a space-age drag system that eliminates the threat of lost fish.

Extreme engineering coupled with the most modern materials and manufacturing processes has created one of the finest, most reliable reels ever produced. There isn’t a fish out there that can get away from a Penn International VSX!

Model	mono capacity	number of bearings	max drag @ strike	High speed gear ratio	low speed gear ratio	line retrieve per crank low speed	line retrieve per crank high speed	weight
16VSX	1000yds / 16lb	4BB	28	4.25:1	1.7:1	15in/381mm	36in/914mm	41oz/1162g
30VSX	400yds / 30lb	4BB	35	3.8:1	1.6:1	15in/381mm	37in/940mm	60oz/1701g
50VSX	550yds / 50lb	4BB	45	3.1:1	1.3:1	14in/346mm	34in/864mm	75oz/2126g
130VSX	1000yds / 130lb	6BB	80	2.2:1	1.2:1	21in/533mm	38in/965mm	176oz/4990g