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What Are Your Old Rod And Reel Combos?

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Here's my old line up.

Strikeforce 100H/FLW TITAN 6'0" M

Custom Shimano GT-X2200SQ/Ugly Stick Lite 7'0" M

Daiwa Tournament SS/Falcon Original Spin 6'6" M

3 Pfluger Trion GX 7's/3 Berkley 6'0 M Cherrywoods.

And a Shimano Sidestab 2000RB Duel handle on a Shimano Glass rod.

Those are all my old fishing combos, they all see use. What are yours?

5 Phenix Iovino Doodlin' rods with 1500-2500C's for worm fishing.Phenix 55 M2 with an Ambassadeur 4600 AL for spinner baits,Phenix 60 XH with an Ambassadeur 4600C for jigs,and a Phenix 60 M2 FT with a 4600C for crank baits.All these rods,and rels are from the 70's and 80's,and are still catching tons of fish.

Mine are not really that old I just got into bass fishing maybe 4-5 years ago but mine was the Gander Mountain Tournament combo, The Abu Ambassador 5000 combo from walmart.

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I don't really have too many "old" ones. Seems all my old stuff gets sold off to buy new stuff every few years. My oldest rod is a 2004 St Croix Avid, and my oldest reels are D series Citca and Curado.

I don't really have too many "old" ones. Seems all my old stuff gets sold off to buy new stuff every few years. My oldest rod is a 2004 St Croix Avid, and my oldest reels are D series Citca and Curado.

You have a serious problem lol

my oldest combo woulbe be an old abu 6500, trophy on a croix classic cat, old but still sees use

A St. Croix Classic Cat rod? Oh man I kick myself for not buying a couple of those before they discontinued them. Thats top of the line catfishin' gear there.

My 'old' gear wouldve been Shimano Curados and Daiwa Emblems. Now Im going real old school and getting a few custom made 4500c's from Jerry Foran. Looking to put them on either fiberglass or pistol grip rods.

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"Old" to me means gear from the 1960s or earlier. I've got a late-1950s vintage Ambassadeur 5000 that gets fished occasionally - it's on a mid-80s Shakespeare rod right now. I also have a Mitchell 408 and Mitchell Conolon rod that I bought around 1966 that also gets fished from time to time. My first spinning reel was a Sears Ted Williams 400 from around 1960 that still gets fished about once a year - it's on a mid-60s solid glass rod. I caught my first 4-pound class bass on a spincast reel (a "Lido 400") that I got for one book of trading stamps around 1965 or so and put it on a broken rod (that I repaired for a couple bucks) I found laying on the bank on Tamiami Trail in SoFla. The Lido today is on a modern BPS rod but hasn't reeled in a fish since the 60s. I still have my Shakespeare Wonderod Flyrod from the 1960s with a Sears knockoff of a Pflueger Medalist flyreel - I'm gonna fish this rig for the first time since the 60s sometime next month.

None of this stuff is in front-line service...

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"Old" to me means gear from the 1960s or earlier. I've got a late-1950s vintage Ambassadeur 5000 that gets fished occasionally - it's on a mid-80s Shakespeare rod right now. I also have a Mitchell 408 and Mitchell Conolon rod that I bought around 1966 that also gets fished from time to time. My first spinning reel was a Sears Ted Williams 400 from around 1960 that still gets fished about once a year - it's on a mid-60s solid glass rod. I caught my first 4-pound class bass on a spincast reel (a "Lido 400") that I got for one book of trading stamps around 1965 or so and put it on a broken rod (that I repaired for a couple bucks) I found laying on the bank on Tamiami Trail in SoFla. The Lido today is on a modern BPS rod but hasn't reeled in a fish since the 60s. I still have my Shakespeare Wonderod Flyrod from the 1960s with a Sears knockoff of a Pflueger Medalist flyreel - I'm gonna fish this rig for the first time since the 60s sometime next month.

None of this stuff is in front-line service...

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Nice!

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A St. Croix Classic Cat rod? Oh man I kick myself for not buying a couple of those before they discontinued them. Thats top of the line catfishin' gear there.

My 'old' gear wouldve been Shimano Curados and Daiwa Emblems. Now Im going real old school and getting a few custom made 4500c's from Jerry Foran. Looking to put them on either fiberglass or pistol grip rods.

I had one of those ST. Croix Cat rods, the seat broke and it needs to be fixed. Good catfishing rod.

I had one of those ST. Croix Cat rods, the seat broke and it needs to be fixed. Good catfishing rod.

yea i have 2, lol i was a hardcore cat man and still am, they bass and the catfish both have there spurts, i called croix and they said the wildriver was the same blank, i have 2 wild river 8 H, they are nice and have 6600 rockets on them, but to me they are no classic cat, i do have one tidemaster as well, all right..

I still have an Ambassadeur 5000(1965) and a 2500c that I still use on a old crossfire rod.

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I have 10 Bronson Mercury Reels, 1940's early 50's. All of which are on an Emmrod Packer.

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