I have two - use them for most everything and swear by them. The only time one ever let me down was at Rivers Inlet. Hooked into a fish that took off - we saw it flash and new it was very large. It never looked back. I had smoke coming off the spool it was running so hard. Then I got real smart and thought I'd try to thumb it. No more finger print on that digit for quite some time. It took every last inch of line. Then again, the fish in that area run up to as much as 70 lbs. Kinda hard to ask that reel to handle those.....