Took the veritas I had exchanged out to papamoa beach on saturday evening for a fish and quite happy with it so far even though I was only hooking sea lettuce, should have really waited till the next day to go out in the daylight to get a feel for it, only b###h I had was on my part in using an albright knot to tie the shock leader to the braid which was catching in the guides instead of taking the time to tie the leader to mainline knot I usually use which is the slim beauty knot. Really tempted to get a free spool reel to try on the veritas but for now the eggbeater will have to do.