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Jul 3, 2020 08:40:17 #
What kinda reel is this. Any times I should use one. What is a good line to spool it up with. Would it be a good reel to learn to fish with. Can you unscramble this before a bluegill eats it. RKTCEIC.
Jul 3, 2020 09:49:05 #
Looks like the old south bend spincast reel I first learned to fish with many moons ago
Jul 3, 2020 09:51:22 #
Jul 3, 2020 10:01:22 #
It's a Johnson Century. Looks like the 100B model, if I remember right. Great reel for it's day, but a light reel. Not really for bigger fish.
Jul 3, 2020 23:44:25 #
Dharvey3 wrote:
It's a Johnson Century. Looks like the 100B model, if I remember right. Great reel for it's day, but a light reel. Not really for bigger fish.
I still have a couple Johnson’s; Century and Citation. That’s what I learned to fish with, along with Zebcos. I used a Johnson up until I got a Zebco Bullet.
Jul 4, 2020 01:32:48 #
[quote=Wv mike]What kinda reel is this. Any times I should use one. What is a good line to spool it up with. Would it be a good reel to learn to fish with. Can you unscramble this before a bluegill eats it. RKTCEIC.[/quote
Old Johnson reel. Best reel made in its time.
Cricket.
Old Johnson reel. Best reel made in its time.
Cricket.
Jul 4, 2020 07:35:07 #
Everybody got em all i guess. Never saw one of those reels. Got my first spinner about 1955.
Jul 4, 2020 12:37:13 #
msmllm
Loc: Huntington, WV
Randyhartford wrote:
I still have a couple Johnson’s; Century and Citation. That’s what I learned to fish with, along with Zebcos. I used a Johnson up until I got a Zebco Bullet.
Do you like the Zebco Bullet? I grew up fishing alot with the 33 zebco.
Jul 4, 2020 17:04:37 #
I had one, lost a good fish the first day I used it. No drag, sent back to mfg. they did nothing to it. Sent it back to me and I thru it away. Maybe that is one of the reasons why they don't make reels anymore!?
Jul 4, 2020 17:37:16 #
Wv mike wrote:
What kinda reel is this. Any times I should use one. What is a good line to spool it up with. Would it be a good reel to learn to fish with. Can you unscramble this before a bluegill eats it. RKTCEIC.
JOHNSON SABRE. Lost the biggest fish I ever hooked using one of those. I didn't know you had to let the handle go backwards in order to have any drag. The fish popped a 20# test line. Sounded like a rifle when it broke.
Edit: you're right. The Sabre had a star drag on the handle. As long as you held the handle forward you had no drag.
Jul 4, 2020 20:32:27 #
A classic Johnson reel! Should have info on left side. The old Heddon reel was lighter in color but a bit stronger with the drag set right.
Jul 4, 2020 20:35:15 #
Took me down memory lane, there! My Dad gave me a Roddy pole with a Johnson Century on it as a present when I finished the 8th grade.
I still have that reel!
I still have that reel!
Jul 4, 2020 20:38:23 #
Jul 5, 2020 04:19:48 #
using that reel in salt water for any good sized fish would not be cricket.
Jul 5, 2020 14:01:57 #
Used that reel to catch many rock bass in the eastern upper peninsula of Michigan. Was stationed at the now closed Kincheloe AFB 25 miles SSE of Saulte Ste. Marie. Good reliable reel that was under $10 bucks in '64 in the Base Exchange.
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