It looks like my old Rick Clunns and Johnny Morris reels but I don't know about that gold... It is a sick looking reel though ;D

I've never seen anything about it

Yep, just another old model BPS JM reel repainted and re-introduced as new.  Not that there was anything wrong with that particular reel in the first place but really, it would be like GM chrome plating a 2004 model car and trying to sell it as a new model.  

Shimano.

Better than anything BPS sells.

Good investment for the long run.

Just food for thought.  

Yep, just another old model BPS JM reel repainted and re-introduced as new. Not that there was anything wrong with that particular reel in the first place but really, it would be like GM chrome plating a 2004 model car and trying to sell it as a new model.

That's exactly what the guy at BPS told me when I asked him about it... minus the car analogy.