Some neat old stuff

[rp dog]

Found these old reels while cleaning out my moms basement for a living estate sale as we had to put her in a home. I'm not familiar with some of them but they must have been my dads the only one I remember is the Johnson sabre. Pretty neat the little bait caster has ingraving on the side. Any ideas?

[IFF]

The Mitchell is one of the newer ones.  The older ones stamped made in Finland, rotate in the opposite direction.  The Johnson I would guess is from the late 50's and 60's.  The bait caster was a fairly common to that time period. There were a lot of makers into that style. Only a guess on that one, an Ocean City maybe ?  Used mainly as a boat reel.  The spinning real in top of picture I would say predates them all.

[fishlessman]

any name on the upper spinning reel, i dont think ive seen that reel before

[rgfixit]

I know the fly box. Good old Perrine. Just sold half a dozen at my garage sale. The bait caster is a Pfleuger Nobby. Probably around 1960 or so.
I have one in my collection.



Rg

[fishlessman]

google imaged the top one, its a ru mer surf casting reel, probably late 40's with the half bail

[rp dog]

Sorry fellas Been pretty busy. The big green one is pretty neat the bail system has more of a finger on it not a complete wire bail. I'm going to look it over better this week . They will be a permanent part of my collection. Thanks for the information.
Rp

[tomturkey]

Them dang little bait casters and all the backlashes level wind or not. What a pain. Still can remember snapping turtles spooling me of the Dacron line.

I bought a Japanese spinning reel that hardly lasted one summer. OH what an in improvement the Mitchel 300 was.

[myemmy]

Every fisher person owned a Mitchell 300 at one time or another.

[myemmy]

Some of those bait asters were a lot of money in those years!

[myemmy]

Sorry bait casters but you knew that.

[rgfixit]

My rod growing up was a steel shaft bait caster with one of those demon reels and black Dacron line....poundage rating somewhere between 10 and 120 lbs.

But, we would hang a hook and worm off it and a big old plastic bobber above and catch bluegills and bass and perch. Kid fishing at its best.

Rg

[Mac Attack]

My rod growing up was a steel shaft bait caster with one of those demon reels and black Dacron line....poundage rating somewhere between 10 and 120 lbs.

But, we would hang a hook and worm off it and a big old plastic bobber above and catch bluegills and bass and perch. Kid fishing at its best.

Rg

Ditto
The good ole days Bob
Lol

[JerryofWNY]

My rod growing up was a steel shaft bait caster with one of those demon reels and black Dacron line....poundage rating somewhere between 10 and 120 lbs.

But, we would hang a hook and worm off it and a big old plastic bobber above and catch bluegills and bass and perch. Kid fishing at its best.

Rg

Oh the memories.