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Get the One Pfoot drag plate and possibly the reel foot if the stock foot doesn't like your intended rod. I've got a bunch of Pfluegers of all ages. I love to fish them and I have very few problems with fit. But if you do, its a great part that's easy to revert back to stock. Add the counterbalance if you like the looks, it won't make a big difference in performance unless you're playing with big carp, trout in heavy water or salt water fish. Even then, I've landed a lot of stripers, redfish, pollock and redfish on my stock 1495's. Having said that, I wouldn't spring for the round line guard, sculpted pillars and other acoutrements unless I had to have the aesthetics to match a grass or glass rod. Those parts don't affect the performance at all, but they will fundementally change the look of a mint reel that's waited patiently for half a century to be fished. That's one fine looking reel!

Joe C.