I love old fishing gear and found these two reels Sunday morning. I've never been much on spinning as I fly fished all my life but other than that I liked baitcasters.

Most don't know but the spinning reel was invented in Italy by an outfit named Alcedo. The president of Italy even gave one to Ike on a state visit. Ike was a big fly fishing fan as well, but even he understood that the spinning reel was a huge revolution in sport fishing because anyone could cast it unlike baitcasters.

Here are the two I picked up. One is a Pezon Michel and the other was made by Crack, (odd for me too), but I've had both of them apart and they are clean and perfect in function. Now I need to find a couple shorter old glass rods so they look right on the river.

Last picture was a recent sunrise at the house.

Nice I have an old mitchell that looks like those.
Was my Dads back in the day.
Got an old Inglis fly reel and old fly rod also.

Nice, Pete. Any idea what years they were made?

Nice. I love old fishing reels but I mainly collect zebco.

Patrice... my best guess is early 60's, but the earliest models came out in 1939 and didn't have a bail so you had to gather the line with your finger. Dupont invented monofilament in 1939 as well, so it makes sense, as using a reel like that with older braided line would be a mess.

And Turkey Wrangler, for me the spin cast reels were just as important because you could take a 4 year old fishing.

We have it so easy these days.

Pete

I also have the Pezon E Michel

I have my Dads old Garcia Mitchell 300.
Still grab every Zebco 33 with the silver metal cover I can find.

I think I have the original box the 300 came in.

I am a mitchell man myself. Just bought 3 and many spools, one was the bigger one 306 the other two were 300s. Probsbly 10 spools all together = $20 yippie........jk

I have a couple of Mitchell 300's in my/hunt/fish closet.