It was built and sold as a fly fishing reel, but it was brilliant for luderick, tailor and bream fishing.

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Some daiwa or another, my brother and I had matching bright orange 10' rods and black reels when were in some beach fishing club that used to meet in Mt Hawthorn.

same black Daiwa reels I had?
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I think it was a diawa Roddy egg beater....my old man had an alvey

Abu Cardinal!!!, still have it somewhere aswell...still kickin' along

Cheers,
Sam

Cast alloy body, plastic spool. The flatty and chopper tailor slayer. 6lb line.

It was either a mighty JW fish hunter or an old ryobi

i forget

My dad's little Shakespeare spinning reel with a rear drag. It caught carp in the murray, trout in colorado and terrorised tommies, mullet and whiting all over south oz.

I found in the shed earlier in the year it wasn't looking to healthy

Cheers

Swamp

Mine was an old, brown Diawa eggbeater, given to me for Christmas about 35 years ago.  Caught thousands of herring, gardies, tailor and whiting, plus the odd mulloway, salmon and shark, before the gears wore so badly that you could wind it backwards as well as forwards, even with the anti-reverse engaged. Oh, and the plastic handle used to move about 10mm side to side on its spindle because its guts had worn so much from winding.

first a roddy, then a diawa brown 7700ra model then a second hand mitchell

Diawa 4000c 2 ball bearings and all the works (back then).  Still have it and is still in good solid working order.  Only thing that needs a bit of TLC is that the handle hits the bail arm now and then when retrieving otherwise good.  Geez though you notice the difference in the (now instant) anti reverse between the reels back then and the latest models. 

Think the rod was a jarvis walker (broomstick) but not sure...

Cheers

Paul

  i had a couple of el cheapo reels from k mart or somewhere like that but my first decent reel was a sigma shakespere 060 , i got that when i was about 15 , it got stolen twice but only got it back once, caught heaps of black bream in the swan on that one

RUSS & SANDY

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some unknown brand combo thats made of plastic and a solid 4ft glass rod that came in a blister pack from Big W for $15. Then promptly upgraded to a Jarvis Walker Inazuma thing that caught of fish but one salmon managed to stripped the gears.

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It would be 44 years now since I was presented with my first rod and reel. I was as proud as the day my Dad gave me my plastic sword and sheath!!!

I can visualise the rod but not the reel. I do remember catching a large Pike on it in the UK when I was 9. I used a plug lure so the reel must have been some kind of spin reel.

Cheers, Vince

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Was a hand me down boat rod from my grandpa, silstar combo or similar. Also had a 2 piece silstar beach rod combo, loved them both! 

Would love to get hold of them next time Im in south aus again and take em in for a refirb for momentos sake.

Would be cool to give them to my kids as their first rod too actually!

Goooooone Fishin!

Mine was a bakelite centrepin loaded with at least 50 pound cord (well the tackle shop bloke reckoned that was all we could afford.  It was beautifully (not) matched to an old sea fishing solid cane rod ..............which was pretty amusing given we were using it to fish for perch (redfin) roach and anything stupid enough to get within sixty miles of the set up.   First trip out we tied a 3lb pre-tied trace to the end using a reliable granny knot, the trace has a size 20 or 22 hook pre-snooded to it and we climbed into a willow and slowly lowered the bait (hand over hand as the reel was stiff as hell) amongst the red filament roots bordering the lake...............only to immediately hook up to a good perch.   as they say memorable and hooked for life ! 

How the technology has changed.

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Started 30 odd yrs ago in South AFrica catching Mullet and elf (tailor). All I remember was that it was a spin cast reel. After moving to Aus as a 11 yr old always spin reels with a Mitchell in there somewhere.

Cheers

Flat seas!!!

mine was some type of expensive shimano gear ( uncle owned a sports/tackle shop) caught many good fish on it from big redfine, murray cod, yellow belly (was living in the country at the time) then on our yrly holidays to the coast caught some big dusky flat head , plenty of bream and taylor. Unfortunaly all my old gear was stolen a few yrs ago  so now slowly building up the collection again:)

alvey about 5inch spool and no anti reverse 

'respect may authoratay" - eric cartman

Especially if a big ray grabbed your line.

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My first was a Chrissy Prez from my parents... Daiwa...egg beater silver in colour thats is all I remember, 400 model I think. now that lasted me for a long time

6inch wooden alvey without the fancypants stardrag and a split cane rod with nails banged in and bent over to form guides. with some cotton meant for leatherwork.