Show Off Your Vintage Rod And Reels!

[Last_Cast]

Hey everybody thought it would be cool to start a new thread showing off our vintage fishing equipment. (If one already exists then crap, if not lets make this happen!)

[Goose52]

We've had threads like this every year or so...not to say that we can't have one again...

 

Here are a couple of the past threads:  

 

Sentimental Gear

 

Show Me Your Sentimental Setup

 

What Are Your Old Rod And Reel Combos?

 

Anyone still using their older equipment?

 

 

Here is my response to one of those earlier threads:

 

 

I started fishing around 1959 and have most of my gear that I used from then through the 1960s (Fishing Era 1).  I still have almost all my reels from the 60s (2 spinning reels, 2 spincast, and 2 flyreels - missing a baitcast reel).  I'm missing a rod or two but still have 2 spinning rods and 1 fly rod from back then.  I still have a bunch of my lures from the 60s.  I still have most of my 1980s vintage gear (Fishing Era 2) - minus the salt-water rods (don't need a 13' surf rod in Tennessee...  )  I still fish some of this stuff from time to time.

 

File photos that I had on hand:

 

My first spinning reel - a Ted Williams (1959), and my first spincast (about 1965) - a Lido (what the heck is a Lido you might ask...it's the reel I got my first 4-pound class bass on!)

 

 

Here's the Ted Williams reel on a mid-60s solid glass Heddon rod - June 2013 on its annual sortie - still reels in bass 54 years after I got it. (I know, it's not a very big bass..............but its a bass...  )

 

 

An in-the-box Zebco 202 (~60s something) - I never fished this much and preferred the Lido (don't know where that non-original handle nut came from...............or IS it original???):

 

 

Fly reels - a Sears knock-off of a Pflueger Medalist (right)...and a real little Pflueger (left)....along with a Shakespeare Wonderod (mid- to late-1960s):

 

 

A few lures from the 60s (the Hula Popper has a new skirt):

 

 

MirrOLures from the 60s:

 

 

A made-in-Sweden Abu Reflex in-line spinner - I got a kit of 5 of these in the 60s (for 1 book of S&H trading stamps) and fished them over the years - lost them one by one but am saving this last one:

 

 

A Super Duper - still have a couple of these around:

 

 

Fishing Era 2: - I still have most of my 80s-vintage Shakespeare spinning reels and a couple 80s-vintage rods (two of the reels in the photo have since been eBayed) .  I fished the freshwater-size Shakespeare reels in the photo until recently - finally retiring the last one in January 2012 (the 040 size with line on the spool):

 

 

More than 25 years old at the time, the 040 size reel on the top row, right end in the above photo, scored a 9lb LMB in 2011.

 

 

Finally - a Mitchell 408 on a Garcia Conolon rod (purchased around 1966) - both in excellent condition, still fished about once a year - this photo from this past June:

 

 

Special mention goes to this Ambassadeur 5000, now over 50 years old, that belonged to my Dad. It's on an 80s-vintage Shakespeare rod.  I still fish this every once in a while - this channel cat hit my bass plug a couple years ago.

 

 

I got other stuff too - just no file photos handy at the moment.

 

Lots of memories....

[Last_Cast]

 

We've had threads like this every year or so...not to say that we can't have one again...

 

Here are a couple of the past threads:  

 

Sentimental Gear

 

Show Me Your Sentimental Setup

 

What Are Your Old Rod And Reel Combos?

 

Anyone still using their older equipment?

 

 

Here is my response to one of those earlier threads:

 

 

I started fishing around 1959 and have most of my gear that I used from then through the 1960s (Fishing Era 1).  I still have almost all my reels from the 60s (2 spinning reels, 2 spincast, and 2 flyreels - missing a baitcast reel).  I'm missing a rod or two but still have 2 spinning rods and 1 fly rod from back then.  I still have a bunch of my lures from the 60s.  I still have most of my 1980s vintage gear (Fishing Era 2) - minus the salt-water rods (don't need a 13' surf rod in Tennessee...  )  I still fish some of this stuff from time to time.

 

File photos that I had on hand:

 

My first spinning reel - a Ted Williams (1959), and my first spincast (about 1965) - a Lido (what the heck is a Lido you might ask...it's the reel I got my first 4-pound class bass on!)

 

 

Here's the Ted Williams reel on a mid-60s solid glass Heddon rod - June 2013 on its annual sortie - still reels in bass 54 years after I got it. (I know, it's not a very big bass..............but its a bass...  )

 

 

An in-the-box Zebco 202 (~60s something) - I never fished this much and preferred the Lido (don't know where that non-original handle nut came from...............or IS it original???):

 

 

Fly reels - a Sears knock-off of a Pflueger Medalist (right)...and a real little Pflueger (left)....along with a Shakespeare Wonderod (mid- to late-1960s):

 

 

A few lures from the 60s (the Hula Popper has a new skirt):

 

 

MirrOLures from the 60s:

 

 

A made-in-Sweden Abu Reflex in-line spinner - I got a kit of 5 of these in the 60s (for 1 book of S&H trading stamps) and fished them over the years - lost them one by one but am saving this last one:

 

 

A Super Duper - still have a couple of these around:

 

 

Fishing Era 2: - I still have most of my 80s-vintage Shakespeare spinning reels and a couple 80s-vintage rods (two of the reels in the photo have since been eBayed) .  I fished the freshwater-size Shakespeare reels in the photo until recently - finally retiring the last one in January 2012 (the 040 size with line on the spool):

 

 

More than 25 years old at the time, the 040 size reel on the top row, right end in the above photo, scored a 9lb LMB in 2011.

 

 

Finally - a Mitchell 408 on a Garcia Conolon rod (purchased around 1966) - both in excellent condition, still fished about once a year - this photo from this past June:

 

 

Special mention goes to this Ambassadeur 5000, now over 50 years old, that belonged to my Dad. It's on an 80s-vintage Shakespeare rod.  I still fish this every once in a while - this channel cat hit my bass plug a couple years ago.

 

 

I got other stuff too - just no file photos handy at the moment.

 

Lots of memories....

 

 WOW

what a collection.

Thanks for your post.. Have some really nice gear.

Glad I can post this up for the year lol 

[Josh Smith]

I just rebuilt and retired Dad's 5000 he gave to me after he moved to a Quantum 1310 on a Fenwick rod to modernize sometime in the late '80s or early '90s. I have some other 5000/5500 reels I use alongside my more modern 5500c3 reels, and one vintage 5500 (non-c) is on Dad's Lew's Speed Stick he gave me with the aforementioned 5000.

I'll have to remember to post file pics to this thread when I get to the PC later.

Josh

[kickerfish1]

Hoping to service this Bantam reel and get it going again. It has sat idle for at least 10 years.

[Maxximus Redneckus]

Anyone have any 1500c iar they would trade for some 5500s