The Pflueger Rocket

[mo65]

This is the reel that got me started in collecting, so I'd like to share it. It's everything that ya just don't see in a reel these days. Heavy all metal construction...excellent chrome plating...and top notch fit and function. I think the Rocket was a home run for Pflueger.

[Dominick]

Cool reel Mo.  It looks like you are fishing it.  I would make it a shelf queen.  Dominick

[Benni3]

Nice rocket mo 

[Midway Tommy]

Nice way to start a collection, Mo! That's one purty reel and the red line is a nice accent!

[Reel 224]

No-wonder you started collecting after that one!

Joe

[Bill B]

That's beautiful Mo.."great piece.....Bill

[thorhammer]

Pretty one Mo. I just started cleaning up a few of my knuckle busters.  The chrome was good then. 

[Yogi_fish808]

Beautiful pflueger Mo! They definitely don't make em like that anymore....

[Long Enuff]

I grew up fishing the Rockets at the jetties in the Savannah River; trout, spot tail bass, sheep head, big black drum etc. Quality reels.  The local hardware stores even carried the worm gears and pawls for the level wind back then.

[mo65]

   Thanks for the compliments folks! Although we always had a few old Penns on the farm...I never really saw any Pfluegers from this era until I started collecting. Now I even have some newer Pfluegers I fish with...very well made reels. After getting this Rocket it was a quest...I had the Pflueger Flu!

[Benni3]

  nice looking reels mo

[steelfish]

beautiful reel Mo, yours looks like new the chrome reflection looks like a mirror


I have one Pfleuger Akron, it has a serial number 1893 so I thought it would be better on the shelf than fishing with it, its a small reel and since I got it it stays on one of the shelfs on my office, the other reel is a Bronson Green Hornet 2200

[Gfish]

Mo, do you know when abouts the Rocket was manufactured?

Steelfish, I got a Akron too. I believe the 1893(also on mine and others I've looked at) is part of the model name/number, not a serial #.
Gfish

[steelfish]

.........is part of the model name/number, not a serial #.
Gfish

soo, to the trash it goes















naa, just kidding.    thanks for the info

[basto]

Mo, When I see reels like this Rocket, I lose interest in aluminium frames and spools. I don`t think the latest custom jobs will last as well on the outside as they will on the inside.
Beautiful reel!
Basto