New Favorite Casting Reel

[Midway Tommy]

Never been a huge fan of conventional type casting reels but I came across this little gem the other day and decided to pick it up. It's a cool addition and displayed right along with my spinning reels. 😀

[JasonGotaProblem]

There's one of those on the goodwill site currently. Not in as good of shape. But cult-of-personality enthusiasts, it's probably worthwhile.

[Gfish]

Alright Tommy! Looks like a gem.
It seems I remember you disparaging bait casters in past posts? Have you had a chance to look yet at the  internals? Does it sound good when you test the functions externally?
With those old bait casters, I've found there's a kind of a Zen to using them. Short casting and birds nests result from my own frustrations and impatience, i.e., the reel ends-up controlling me, whereas I have to control myself and then make the reel work for ME.
Keta-Lee helped me to see this in an indirect way...

[Keta]

Nice!

[quang tran]

Look nice but any relative to Mr. President

[oc1]

Glad to see you finally coming around Tommy.

[Midway Tommy]

Well the one thing I can say for sure is I could cast one a heck of a lot better 60+ years ago when I was a kid than I can now, and that Anti-Back-Lash feature is pretty much a bogus sales pitch.  Glad it's going into winter, it's going to take an awful lot of practice before this spinner dude will get efficient with one of these things, if ever.   

[Squidder Bidder]

It catches on two out of three casts! Some say every time! 

[jgp12000]

I believe I have a Akron1894L Wompus Cat had a new handle & jewel for the side that was missing.