A blast from the past

[Bankbeater]

Johnson Century 100A from the early 60's

Shakespeare 2200II from the early to mid 70's

Shimano Bantam 100 from the early 80's

[Derek1]

Pretty cool

[jimmyjoe]

   I owned and thoroughly used #s 1 and 3, but never saw # 2. For spinning, I was into Mitchell and Penn at the time.     jj

 

[The Bassman]

25 minutes ago, Bankbeater said:

Johnson Century 100A from the early 60's

Shakespeare 2200II from the early to mid 70's

Shimano Bantam 100 from the early 80's

My first reel, handed down by my dad when I was 7 or 8. Caught lots of pay lake cats. Wonderful memories. Thank you.

 

 

[MAN]

Love the Shimano Bantam....in fact I bought one off ebay from a post on here about them.  Plan on fishing with it soon. 

[Paul Roberts]

I still use my Bantam 250. No reason not to.

[Mobasser]

Nice older reels.

[Mobasser]

Bankbeater, I also have a Johnson reel like yours. I started mid 1960s with a Zebco 33, then bought a Johnson reel too. I fished these untill around 1971, when my brother came home from the service and gave me a red ABU 5000.Spent much of the first season picking out backlashes. I always liked the Johnson spincast reel.