I think the only Penn reels made in the states now are the PENN US Senator US113N - US Senator US113 and the US Senator US113WKimtown wrote: Yeah they were always the top echelon of reels to my knowledge then went the way of jarvis, shimano etc and sold out their very base level models to China
But their higher models are still manufactured in the US to my knowledge.
http://www.pennfishing.com/PENN-news-pe ... r-4-0.html
the rest are made in China
I use mainly Penn gear with the slammers being the backbone of my spinning reels - being a kayak fisho my gear has to hold up well to abuse and the penn gear seams to do it well for a well priced reel - many of my mates also use them in all sizes 260s for PPB snapper or WP whiting up to 560s for our off shore work - earlier this year a mate pulled a 19 kg tuna on a 460 slammer
I also use penn OHs in 501 and or 500 jigmasters on most of my trips into Westernport