Just got one today You can undo the bottom cap and wind the nut out slightly and it make it even softer drag

Great video nice reel they are well worth the money👍🏻 I have the penn spinfisher vI 4500 & and penn slammer lll 4500 still haven't used them yet lol put braid on them the other week bought a penn rival level wind boat reel the other week as well putting mono line on it tomorrow 🎣🐟🌊😎👍🏻

Ben, I have Penn Affinity 7000 Liveliners that I use for both carp fishing & beach casting, the line lay is fantastic, and I use Shimano Medium Baitrunners on Wolf 10ft X1's for SIB use. There is no real difference in the smoothness of each reel. The Penn's have better line lay tho. The free spool facility for live-baiting is a great feature. Penn have really (pardon the pun) stepped up their game this year and are pushing Gomexus handles, which I recommend too. Now they are a game changer having bearings in the knob.

I have have a Penn 6500 Live Liner reel as well & having the 4 lever settings is really good to have especially if you have a really big fish on No 1 setting & taking out a lot of line & you can set No 2 & still not slowing the fish down you can set it on No3 setting & if the line is still going quite fast go onto No 4 & that will slow the fish down & still be able to take line out but not as fast & the beauty of the 6500 & also the Penn 8500 Live Liner Fishing reels have a safety feature as you open up the bail arm to cast your line & it doesn't matter how strong you cast your line out & even if the handle on the reel should turn around it will not slam the bail arm over to break your line off it is designed not to come over & you just flick it over after you have cast the line & I have had really bad luck with other fishing reels like for instance Okuma & Ryobi Fishing Reels on my surf casting rod & this was before I got a 2015 6.20 Fiberglass Cabin boat with a 2014 F150 Yamaha 4 Stroke outboard motor & on the fishing reel I have 20 lb main line & 2 rod lengths of 50 lb shock leader 5 once sìnker & 2 x 7 /0 hooks with big baits & a lot of times when I do the big cast with the 12 foot casting rod apparently the handle on the reel would turn around & slam the bail arm over & snap the line & lose my shock leader & hooks & 5 once sinker & I was pissed off & now with the new Penn 6500 Live Liner reel & put that fishing reel on a surf casting rod I would not have any more problems of the handle turning around on the big cast & the bail coming over & breaking the line & the designed not to come over & it doesn't matter how many times you turn the handle on the Penn 6500 Live Liner Fishing Reels & the Penn 8500 Live Liner Fishing Reels & you flick the bail over on these fishing reels & turn the handle so many times on these fishing reels the bail arm will not slam over it Designed NOT TO SLAM OVER & THAT IS THE SAFETY FEATURE ON THESE PENN 6500 LL & the 8500 LL & I will tell you something one day I went to another fishing place to surf cast & I fished for awhile & decided to do a big cast & that was a big mistake on my part the bail arm slammed over breaking the line on the Okuma fishing reel & the 5 once sinker went flying ing in the air along the beach & there were people there & I ran up to the people that were there & I was shit lucky that 5 once sink didn't hit anyone & it was close of hitting someone & I apologized to that person & told that person what had happened & got back to my fishing gear & packed it all up & put in it in the vehicle & went home & I wish that these Penn Live Liner Fishing Reels were made years ago & wouldn't have had this problem Kind Regards Peter

I wish they did these in the 5500 size. For general fishing I think the 4500 is a bit small and the 6500 a bit too big. Great reels though.

@SouthysFishing which rod did you pair this reel with?

Where can I find parts for the ssvi6500?

can you replace a spinnfisher 6 spool with the longcast spool?

so you basically have to do some minor disassembly to adjust the free-spool tension? I might just stick with a regular spinning reel...

My Slammer is just as smooth as a Shimano. Not out of the box, no. But I apply my secret sauce… Marine grade gear lube picked up from Walmart 😂 It’s like $4.58 USD for a large tube, and it works wonderfully!!! I actually use it on both the gears and bearings. Smooooth as butter now.