I am an old school Abu fan but I'm growing more and more tired of the lack of quality I see in their reels especially since Berkley bought them out. I picked up a new Record at the Chicago show. Love the feel, love the gear ratio, great reel for me to run twitch baits and jerk baits. Problem is I blew the anti-reverse in less than a month of use to start of the season. Returned it to Rollie & Hellens and got a new one just before I left for a week on Georgian Bay. On the last day of the 6 day trip I once again fried the anti-reverse. This time I sent it back to Pure Fishing's (Berkley's repair arm) repair folks with a pretty snotty note saying I was unimpressed with the alleged claims that the Record would hold up to musky fishing. They called me back and asked what line I was using on it. When I told them 80 lb Power Pro, the guy told me that is why I'm frying the antireverse and I quote "using that stuff is like the reel is pulling in a log everytime." He suggested I use a line 1/2 that in test strength. I then questioned him about what serious musky angler would use less than 80 lb test super line. He said that their pros only use 7000 series Big Game reels for muskies and those reels can hold up to the larger test superlines. I thought that was interesting but asked how it was their pros palmed 7000's when working jerk baits. Unfortunately, bottom line is, the Berkley guys just don't get musky fishing nor are they listening to the comlpaints and trying to improve their products. Good thing is they will repair and/or replace your reel promptly but for $130+ dollars I was expecting a bit more from this "improved" product than my having to send it back once a month for replacement.