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Mr. Champ · Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 10:12 am Post subject:

Zebco 808 baby, first reel on my fishing rod and first reel on my bow.
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cjlandry · Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 11:27 am Post subject:

I think I remember it being a 404, but not certain of that. I've had a number of 33's. I still have one today, though it seldom gets used.
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Skipjack · Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 12:23 pm Post subject:

Same here, Zebco 808....catching white bass and largemouth bass on Lake Mathis aka Lake Corpus Christi
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Guest · Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 12:24 pm Post subject: Don't know

The first reel I ever bought was a Penn 109, but that was not my first reel by a long shot. I can't remember what my first reel was, but it was mounted on a 5-foot split bamboo rod that came to a bad end.

When I was 6 or 7, Dad first began taking me fishing off the seawall and seaplane ramps at NAS Corpus Christi using that rig. He'd left me at the tip of a ramp one day while he went pitching a spoon along the wall, then came running back when he heard me screaming. He found me jumping up and down atop a huge flounder that I'd brought in hand-over-hand after it broke the rod. My next rod was solid fiberglass and limber as a noodle. Wink

tyler · Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 1:08 pm Post subject: Great topic

The first I can remember was a matching set of mitchell rods and reels. I think they were 308's that my dad bought for each of us in 1966. They were fairly light but not ultralight. The first fish I caught on it was a smallmouth bass fishing some river or creek near Neosho Missouri. I got it on one of those plastic worms with the propeller on the front.
Later my first baitcaster was a Sears(actually made by Daiwa) "Ted Williams Approved" model that came with a stiff fiberglass worm rod. Man that thing was stiff.

rabbit · Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 2:40 pm Post subject:

First casting reel I had was a old shakespear with black line on it and when they came out with the spinning reel I thought that was the greatest reel to come along zebco 33 Very Happy

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GoinCoastal · Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 2:44 pm Post subject:

I had a Zebco 808 .. I think. It was big green and ugly!!!! Shortly after that, Dad got me a Ambassador 5000C and the Zebco was retired.
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mando · Pony Mullet Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 177

i never had my own r&r when i was little, i just used my dad's daiwa spinning reels. i remeber fishing that small pier in front of the new court house catching perch while dad caught drum.

jbonorden · Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 5:03 pm Post subject:

!st serious rod and reel was a mitchel 300 on a 7'fenwick spinning rod. Dad gave me an Ambassadeur 5000 when I turned 10.(40 years ago)

FS552 · Finger Mullet Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 67

My mom bought my brother and I a Zebco 202 and Zebco 2pc rod.
We used to ride th bus to the bayfront and catch perch all day long.

Mapag · Mud Minnow Joined: 06 Oct 2004 Posts: 21

The first reel I remember using was a Shakespeare President loaded with dacron, wow, what a backlasher.

The first reel I ever purchased was an Abu-Garcia Ambassadeur 5000 which I put on a Fenwick "Lunker Stick". I mowed a lot of grass to buy that first set up at age 11. I was seriously obsessed with bass fishing and the Ambassadeurs were what all the pros like Roland Martin and Bill Dance used.

mando · Pony Mullet Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 177

i have one of those fenwick "lunker sticks" but i think i cut it up and tore it down Confused

putawaywet · Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 4:26 am Post subject:

Zebco here as well.
Dad always had Mitchells, Penns and Ambassadeurs.
I'm still a Penn addict.Pretty much all Penns and Garcias for fresh, bay and offshore.I get alot of grief from my friends about it.
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Magic · Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 6:44 am Post subject: Sure Glad Someone Else Is My Age!

It's good to see that others started out with a Shakespeare President loaded with heavy braid and how about the hex steel rod it was mounted on. I had three or four of these combos that were given to me by one of my father's employees when her husband passed away. Sure wish I had taken good care of them and had them stashed away now. Some of those old reels and rods are worth a bundle now.
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