This reel broke while I was reeling in on a calm river with three ounces of weight. I haven't even taken this reel out ten times yet and it failed so easily. Penn should send a replacement or at least refund me so I can get something that works.

Medium is a very loose fit on torque 40nld2. also fathom 40nld2. A little loose but 2 speed gearing is covered (in photos). Edit: bought small and extra small locally and I'm satisfied how xs fits fathom 25nld2. Xxs is too small for 25nld2. Xxs fits fathom 12. Small is a snug fit on 40nld2. Much better fit than medium.

There were a lot of one star reviews, but I decided to chance it. Of course, like almost every rod shipped by pennoutlet.com, it came in beat up. I carefully, or so I thought, inspected rod and saw no problems. The rod was for my son and I didn't get it to him for a couple of months. When he was running the line through the eyelets, he noticed that one was popped loose from blank, as can be seen in pics. He builds rods as a hobby, occasionally, and said it looks like there is no thread, just epoxy. I would have expected the eyelet to have been bent over, as has happened in the past, due to bad packaging, but not popped loose from the blank. Not impressed for the price.