While looking to identify my father’s old salt water reel someone suggested that it might be a Mitchell Garcia. Although the company is no longer in business I did find this old ad on line. Looks a lot like the old auto reel that I posted the other day.
Nice. I like the different colored rods!
Did you notice the price of these rods?
Did you happen to notice the line designations shown in the add? If they mean anything to you, you are an old timer.
I think that the current line weights were defined when the industry got together and standardized them. I believe that was in about the early 1960’s.
And all lines were either Silk or Level Taper. The industry answered a lot of questions, but I am not sure it is any easier now.
Well, I must be qualified as an Old Timer then. Heck, not only do I remember the line/rod designations, I remember that same ad in my Field & Stream magazines!
Regards, & Good Fishin’
a long time ago there was a discussion about automatic reels of bygone days… at that time I said I remember as a kid playing with a reel at my grandparents house. It had a green heavy braided line. I remember playing with it to the point all the line went inside the reel and I could not get it back out. My grandma was pissed I did that. She had told me several times not to play with it but I did anyway.
…the automatic reel in this ad looks to be identical to the one I remember as a kid..
…hmmmmmmm now I really do feel old.. [sly]
MacFly
Hi Macfly55 - here is my post of last April showing a pix of an auto fly reel. Looks familiar?
…that be it DR… grandmas was either faded black or dark grey… main things I remember are the line and getting into trouble with grandma.. which did not happen very often… [:)]
MacFly