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Hey Bret..was cleaning out some stuff...and found these
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Mar 29, 2025, 9:17 AM
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1st baitcaster I ever bought with my own grass cutting money. I was 12 or 13 maybe. I thinking qas $49.99...and I was more than proud to have it. Put it in a Lew's Speed Stick with a "Pistol Grip"
And how about that Rapala for $1.97. ...must be 30 years old at least...
And finally...the start of my photography career on the Broad River!
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Re: Hey Bret..was cleaning out some stuff...and found these
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Mar 29, 2025, 9:26 AM
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I thought everyone started out with a Zebco 202?
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No sir. Never used one. My dad started me out with a Mitchell 300 spinning reel
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Mar 29, 2025, 9:31 AM
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when I was maybe 7 or 8 years old, before that it was just a cane pole....and that started when I was three years old...
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Re: No sir. Never used one. My dad started me out with a Mitchell 300 spinning reel
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Mar 29, 2025, 9:50 AM
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We need to start a channel. Spud Fishing Network. I have plenty of communications courses under my belt and could pass as a presenter! 🤣
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Re: No sir. Never used one. My dad started me out with a Mitchell 300 spinning reel
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Mar 29, 2025, 9:54 AM
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I was taught the same way. When it came time to graduate Dad set a 5 gallon bucket in the yard and handed me a bait caster. I made so many birds nests! That taught me to sling it with some of the best. It helped I did a lot of fly fishing. My choice is still team Daiwa.
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Re: No sir. Never used one. My dad started me out with a Mitchell 300 spinning reel
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Mar 29, 2025, 10:00 AM
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That was my first one also Spud. I back lashed it most of the time. One time I remember I was clearing a back lash and a 2 pound bass scooped up my worm and took off. I had to hand line it to get him.
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It took me about a week to learn to cast it.....My dad would never touch one....***
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Mar 29, 2025, 10:05 AM
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Re: 202 was the first reel, I ever owned. Good reel for beginners, and was dirt
Mar 29, 2025, 2:49 PM
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cheap. Only thing was, if you hung anything with any kind of fight, the nylon gears would strip out. The next reel I owned, was a 33. The gears were made of cast iron, and the thing was dang near indestructible. I bought it with my grass cutting money, in the 7th grade. $7.95, and included a rod. I fished with that thing until I got married, and then something that I thought could not be harmed, was destroyed by my wife. How did she do it? She don't know, it just happened. I bought another two after that, but apparently cast metal gears were a thing of the past.
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Re: Hey Bret..was cleaning out some stuff...and found these
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Mar 29, 2025, 10:00 AM
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LMAO, Spud maybe you should reframe from calling anything that you do with a camera as a photography career
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Cool. Pistol grips.
Mar 29, 2025, 10:16 AM
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I loved them, for shorter rods. Never understood why they weren't popular.
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Mar 29, 2025, 11:49 AM
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started with cane pole myself then graduated to Brim Buster (liked to slingshot bait under hanging bushes and limbs) then went to Zebco and broke back floating rapala. Now I go fishing at the Fish Market.
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Abu Garcia
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Re: Hey Bret..was cleaning out some stuff...and found these
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I started out casting with an old Ambassador 5500, I became a wasp nest specialist before I ever learned to cast that thing without making impossible wasp nest. I spent more time untangling the line than I did fishing. But once I learn to cast that reel without having to cut the line off, I used that real up until my back injury ended my fishing days. I used a lot of other open faced reels over my lifetime, but I would always go back to my Ambassador 5500...
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