While this page is full of stunning pictures of neat old reels, in peices or on display, its somewhat short of my favorite sort of pictures... fishing gear in action! Admitedly, for having fished mostly with old reels for decades, I myself have relatively few field pics of reels, mostly because I largely fish alone and therefore dont take alot of pictures... but I'll kick it off with some pics from an adventure I took last summer. I drove to northern Saskatchewan, paddled/ portaged my canoe way back into fly-in country. Then I camped on a small island and lived off walleye and instant coffee for 15 days while hunting for trophy pike.
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My weapons of choice on that trip, a Daiwa D1600 which is wearing a BG15 spool just cause thats what had fresh 12lb mono, and a Penn Slammer 360 that had 15lb fireline on it. The Penn admitedly barely counts since I ordered it new from Australia a few years ago.
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I fished both reels about equally and both caught pike that broke the 20lb mark, but this demonstrates why I dont take alot of pictures fishing solo. That fish is a very girthy 43"er, but you cant really tell. If you try to lay one out it will pretty much always beat itself half to death and wreck mayhem on anything in your boat before you manage to get any sort of picture, so almost all my big ones get released un-photographed. Heres a couple pics of more co-oporative species destined for the frying pan.
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Anyhow, I dont mean to give the impression that the pictures need be of huge fish or fabulous adventures, I'd just enjoy seeing some field/ fishing pics of some old reels.
5 diamond spoon is my favorite for pike . Good eating yellow perch and walleye .Good trip man