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Title: Who can relate??
Post by: GrandpaTom on January 01/16/19, 01:15:27 PM
We all started somewhere...

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Title: Re: Who can relate??
Post by: glenn57 on January 01/16/19, 01:36:07 PM
 :rotflmao: :rotflmao: thats still rebs go to rod and reel!!!!!!!!!! :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
Title: Re: Who can relate??
Post by: GrandpaTom on January 01/16/19, 01:45:21 PM
 ;D ;D ;D ;D :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
Title: Re: Who can relate??
Post by: Boar on January 01/16/19, 03:06:03 PM
yea what ever glenn, its smurf blue the way i see it.
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Post by: mike89 on January 01/16/19, 03:09:13 PM
yea what ever glenn, its smurf blue the way i see it.

that's what I see too!!!
Title: Re: Who can relate??
Post by: glenn57 on January 01/16/19, 03:58:41 PM
 :confused: :confused: :tut: :tut: OK i see how this is gonna work!!!!!! :angry2: :angry2: :angry2: :mad1: :mad1: :bs: :bs: training-087 training-087 training-087 :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :fudd: :fudd: :swords: :swords:
Title: Re: Who can relate??
Post by: Rebel SS on January 01/16/19, 04:00:26 PM
:rotflmao: :rotflmao: thats still rebs go to rod and reel!!!!!!!!!! :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

Ok, Mr. ZEBCO.   :moon:
Title: Re: Who can relate??
Post by: glenn57 on January 01/16/19, 04:02:36 PM
:rotflmao: :rotflmao: thats still rebs go to rod and reel!!!!!!!!!! :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

Ok, Mr. ZEBCO.   :moon:
yea i still got a zebco............................808........its attach to my compound...........for shooting carp!
Title: Re: Who can relate??
Post by: Rebel SS on January 01/16/19, 04:04:42 PM
Ya, well I got a still brand new 202, in the case, from my Dad!  NYAA!  :mooning:
Title: Re: Who can relate??
Post by: glenn57 on January 01/16/19, 04:15:39 PM
Ya, well I got a still brand new 202, in the case, from my Dad!  NYAA!  :mooning:
what??????? :scratch: to complicated for you to operate!!!!!!!!!!!! :moon: :sleazy: :mooning: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
Title: Re: Who can relate??
Post by: GrandpaTom on January 01/16/19, 04:37:31 PM
Holy mackerel, a guy comes back from a long absence and does a nice post and right away, the Big Guy has to go crazy.....Wow :wowza: :wowza: :wowza: :surrender: :surrender: :surrender: :surrender: :surrender: :surrender: :surrender:
Title: Re: Who can relate??
Post by: Coffee118 on January 01/16/19, 04:46:40 PM
3 johnson century 100b still in working condition. I know dad still has one in the box stashed away somewhere in his closet. These are 40 to 45 years old.

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Title: Re: Who can relate??
Post by: HD on January 01/16/19, 04:48:46 PM
The first one I ever got was a zebco..... caught many a fish with those things.

I had a pocket fisherman, that was a piece of junk.

Title: Re: Who can relate??
Post by: glenn57 on January 01/16/19, 06:09:47 PM
Holy mackerel, a guy comes back from a long absence and does a nice post and right away, the Big Guy has to go crazy.....Wow :wowza: :wowza: :wowza: :surrender: :surrender: :surrender: :surrender: :surrender: :surrender: :surrender:
yea I know, reb tends to get out of hand once in a while!!!!!!!!! :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
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Post by: Boar on January 01/16/19, 06:10:34 PM
reb likes hotdogs...
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Post by: Rebel SS on January 01/16/19, 06:12:50 PM
3 johnson century 100b still in working condition. I know dad still has one in the box stashed away somewhere in his closet. These are 40 to 45 years old.

Beautiful!  :happy1:  Don't forget the Horrocks- Ibbotson Valiant spincast, or the Shakespeare wonder reel with star drag! Both work great!  From  1960-1963.   :laugh:

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Title: Re: Who can relate??
Post by: glenn57 on January 01/16/19, 06:13:39 PM
reb likes hotdogs...
:rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
Title: Re: Who can relate??
Post by: Rebel SS on January 01/16/19, 06:15:34 PM
Holy mackerel, a guy comes back from a long absence and does a nice post and right away, the Big Guy has to go crazy.....Wow :wowza: :wowza: :wowza: :surrender: :surrender: :surrender: :surrender: :surrender: :surrender: :surrender:
yea I know, reb tends to get out of hand once in a while!!!!!!!!! :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

Mr Tom apparently meant ''Little guy", and crazy is the norm.    :crazy:
Title: Re: Who can relate??
Post by: LPS on January 01/16/19, 07:10:11 PM
Zebco's were the cool thing when we were kids. 
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Post by: Rebel SS on January 01/16/19, 07:13:09 PM
Plus, they came with like 200 lb test on 'em, ya could pull that limb right off the tree before ya lost yer hook and red & white bobber to it.  :rotflmao:
Title: Re: Who can relate??
Post by: Rebel SS on January 01/16/19, 07:40:39 PM
reb likes hotdogs...
:rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

Boar and Glenn showing off for Robert.


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Title: Re: Who can relate??
Post by: LPS on January 01/16/19, 08:35:20 PM
Plus, they came with like 200 lb test on 'em, ya could pull that limb right off the tree before ya lost yer hook and red & white bobber to it.  :rotflmao:

Hey that's right.  Used that same line for the life of the reel. 
Title: Re: Who can relate??
Post by: GrandpaTom on January 01/16/19, 08:46:22 PM
Holy mackerel, a guy comes back from a long absence and does a nice post and right away, the Big Guy has to go crazy.....Wow :wowza: :wowza: :wowza: :surrender: :surrender: :surrender: :surrender: :surrender: :surrender: :surrender:
yea I know, reb tends to get out of hand once in a while!!!!!!!!! :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

Mr Tom apparently meant ''Little guy", and crazy is the norm.    :crazy:
Nah, he has always been known as the "BIG" guy to me.  But, I can relate to the crazy part.
Title: Re: Who can relate??
Post by: Gunner55 on January 01/17/19, 08:00:28 AM
The first one I ever got was a zebco..... caught many a fish with those things.

I had a pocket fisherman, that was a piece of junk.


Zebco was it for me in my younger days but I remember when my grandpa got 1 of the Shakespeares with the star drag that Reb was talking about when he retired from Hormel, man was that a nice unit. Not so sure it's not still out in the fish cleanin house :scratch:
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Post by: Rebel SS on January 01/17/19, 08:05:32 AM
 :smiley:

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Post by: mike89 on January 01/17/19, 11:13:13 AM
had many Zebco reels, so easy to work with and keep going!!!
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Post by: Dotch on January 01/17/19, 11:25:26 AM
Yup. Still have a 600 & the wife's 202 someplace. My Dad had both a 66 and a 33 like in the ad. The 66 was missing the eyelet on the front cover so it cut the line frequently. :huh:
Title: Re: Who can relate??
Post by: glenn57 on January 01/17/19, 11:26:42 AM
cripes you guys are old suckers!!!!!!!!!!!! :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
Title: Re: Who can relate??
Post by: Rebel SS on January 01/17/19, 12:44:12 PM
Still have the never used 33's, and a couple of 202's laying around, in addition the that new one on the matched rod in the case. Two piece rod that breaks down and goes in a white vinyl zippered case. Didja know Zebco stands for the "Zero Hour Bomb Co., out of Tulsa? Brunswick took them over in the 70's, I think. Just didn't fudge 'em up as bad as the Harley's they took over when they were AMF/Brunswick. I used to repair a lot of 'em when I was doing reel repair. Usually the biggest prob was all the sand in 'em and lack of oiling.

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Title: Re: Who can relate??
Post by: Dotch on January 01/17/19, 01:32:18 PM
Dad's 33 is mounted on an old GEP steel rod. Mom bought the rod for him as a surprise birthday present. My oldest brother told Dad when he grew up, he wanted a rod just like the one Mom was getting him for his birthday. Surprise!  :bonk:
Title: Re: Who can relate??
Post by: Rebel SS on January 01/17/19, 01:37:49 PM
Dad's 33 is mounted on an old GEP steel rod. Mom bought the rod for him as a surprise birthday present. My oldest brother told Dad when he grew up, he wanted a rod just like the one Mom was getting him for his birthday. Surprise!  :bonk:


    :doah:      :rotflmao:
Title: Re: Who can relate??
Post by: mike89 on January 01/17/19, 02:17:11 PM
Dad's 33 is mounted on an old GEP steel rod. Mom bought the rod for him as a surprise birthday present. My oldest brother told Dad when he grew up, he wanted a rod just like the one Mom was getting him for his birthday. Surprise!  :bonk:

 :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :happy1:
Title: Re: Who can relate??
Post by: Steve-o on January 01/17/19, 02:39:37 PM
Everyone in my family uses open face spin cast except my mom.  I taught my kids to retrieve left-handed from the very beginning.

I was always told to keep an old Johnson closed face ready with fresh line in case my mom ever wanted to go out again.

She is still around, but her fishing days are probably past.  But I still keep that reel ready - just in case.
Title: Re: Who can relate??
Post by: Rebel SS on January 01/17/19, 02:50:58 PM
Yer talking "spinning" reel, right Steve? No, I 'm not picking at ya....there's spinning, spincasts, and baitcasters....also with the "schooley" type called everything from open spinning to spool spinning to open reel to inline reel, some guys are even tagging them "Black Betty's" after the fish13 hot reel four of five years ago. I have one, and it;s just a high end standard Schooley, IMO. Great for short jigging. :doofus:

Spincast...
https://www.basspro.com/shop/en/spincast-reels#facet:&productBeginIndex:0&facetLimit:&orderBy:&pageView:grid&minPrice:&maxPrice:&pageSize:&

Spinning:
https://www.basspro.com/shop/en/spinning-reels#facet:&productBeginIndex:0&facetLimit:&orderBy:&pageView:grid&minPrice:&maxPrice:&pageSize:&


Schooley/open/ spinreel/ inline/whatever/ :rolleyes:

https://www.scheels.com/p/13-fishing-black-betty-ice-reel/81906501384.html
Title: Re: Who can relate??
Post by: Steve-o on January 01/17/19, 02:55:56 PM
I stand corrected.  Ma used a spincast; everyone else used spinning...

(http://www.networkdimension.com/images/gm300.jpg)

Title: Re: Who can relate??
Post by: Rebel SS on January 01/17/19, 02:58:54 PM
Ah! The good ol' Mitchell 300 spinning staple! Tank of the spinning reels.   :happy1:
Who didn't grow up using those? Spinning reels are all I've ever really used. My buddy can't use one without a tangles mono ball every time...how in the he** he manages that, I have NO clue. That's why he uses bait casters...and he can cast and put it down on a dime. Never seen a backlash on his when doing that. Now me with one of those.....looks like  the main ingredient for "birds nest" soup... :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Who can relate??
Post by: mike89 on January 01/17/19, 03:11:55 PM
Everyone in my family uses open face spin cast except my mom.  I taught my kids to retrieve left-handed from the very beginning.

I was always told to keep an old Johnson closed face ready with fresh line in case my mom ever wanted to go out again.

She is still around, but her fishing days are probably past.  But I still keep that reel ready - just in case.

 :happy1: :happy1: