Stonefish wrote: These look awesome, the handle upgrade is very much needed. Weight of the 50w looks awesome as well, 500g lighter than a 50w Tiagra if the specs are to be believed! When will they be hitting NZ?

Good to see some Tiagra styling in there LOL

have they worked out how to make a clicker that works yet?

PE Pete wrote: Nice Jas, some real innovation. The drag position using pulled makes sense and a really significant range. Will we see the entire range here?

Hey Steve,
Na that clicker has never worker during my ownership of the reel seem to remember we've laughed about it before but despite services and "blue printing"...it's still crap
I've got a vxs? 50 (don't know if you've had that for a service)which has an equally ineffective clicker so assumed it's how they are.
As I caught that"huge sword" on a daytime drop the clicker wasn't used as it's more about getting tight after a bite.
I like my penn inters but tend to use them for bottom fishing more than trolling because of this issue
if it makes you feel better my experience of talicas is that they have a pretty crap clicker too,although they are just quiet.the switch doesn't jump out and disengage when an angry fish is pulling string.
Sooo,   have they put a decent clicker on the new models?

HAHAHAHAHA

Here is image of my stock reel, soon to be stripped:

Hey Pete, yes it is a very comfortable handle knob, see more info here On Trade me here:https://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=1407256872

Tonyg26 wrote: Hi Steve, Any upgrades or changed with the internals/drag? Or mainly just a facelift change with a new handle? If you do a write up id been keen to chuck it in our fishing club newsletter as a few of the non computer savvy members would be interested in a read. Cheers Tony, WSFC