hombre243
.30-06
All my fishing gear has been bumping around in the boat all over the place for years so it's pretty scratched up by now.
I have a local fishing store that sells high-end Yuppy fishing gear, but I'm looking for stuff that is a a better value.
I do like the Diawa reels and I own three or four plus a Penn 10 which I am not giving up.
I have Eagle Claw rods and Shakespeare graphite rods, which have served me well. The one I snapped a tip off was some new one called ROX, and I believe this is only the second time that I've had it out.
But I'm kind of old school I guess, because I like Shakespeare and Eagle Claw and Fenwick. I would probably still fish with my old Mitchell Garcia 330, but I have literally worn the thing out and none of the pins will stay in place.
I used to go out with some guys for big carp fishing, but I don't enjoy catching fish that I can't eat as much.
I have been promising to take my granddaughters fishing but now it looks like I will have to make good on that.
I owned a warranty service center for all the rods and reels out there back in the early 80s to the mid 90s. I loved fixing and using all the cool gear I got from factories and that I bought. My favorite was always Zebco. I also was hooked on the Ambassadeur casting reels. I built all my rods but owned several before I learned the craft. Fenwick, Ugly Stick and oddballs that were on some shelf at a tackle and bait shop were how I started. I did catch more fish with the ones I built because I used them every day and showed them off, and I caught BIG carp and small catfish. (Big to me carp that is...20lb)
In case you had never seen this bit of trivia about Zeco,,, it originally was a bomb and explosive manufacturer. Then at the end of the war someone got the idea to build reels...it is on the Zebco.com website.