Old Fishing rod and reel

[JWFilips]

Found this in my wife's old family garage attic!
Not sure what it is ( bait casting reel) but the rod is tubular steel and is collapsible to 3 feet but opens to 6 feet
Can't find any names anywhere on the reel or rod.
Anybody have a guess?

 

[Rockydoc]

That reel looks more like a fly rod reel than a bait casting reel.

 

[fiver]

yep fly rod.
I have a metal pole set up just like that, and one that has a bait caster on it.
the bait caster has brass fittings and the reel is marked Winchester.
no idea on the maker though, it seemed like there was maybe 50 various makers up and running between 1900 and the start of the depression.

 

[Tomme boy]

Our family take a fishing trip every year to Wisconsin. My uncle has a steel rod with a baitcaster on it. It was his grandfather's so my great grandfathers. He uses for an hour every year to keep it going for tradition. The handle does not disengage and spins as the line goes out. Real pain to use. But he catches fish with it every year.

I like seeing what they used to have to use.

 

[Rally]

The resorts and bait shops up here quite often have old steel or bamboo rods displayed on walls, and often with an old creel or wooden plugs. Call it “Up North” decor.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

We had one as kids. But I dont remember it as collapsable. Was a bait casting style. I have a couple bamboo rods from my Grandfather. Also his tackle box full old lures and plugs in a green metal box. I was gifted two some years back one is bamboo with a bakelight kinda material. It is a boat rod and reel. The second is a name brand reel and early tubular fiberglass rod. Both are displayed on walls as momentous of a time past.

 

[Rally]

There were several collapsable rods (steel) made as “back packer” models. Shakespeer and Ted Williams (Sears) come to mind, but I couldn’t tell you who actually made them. If you do much research on tackle, I’m sure you’ll find there have been many thousand garage manufacturers tried to break into the market with some magic lure or design! Lol Remember the Popeel Pocket Fisherman?

 

[Bret4207]

I've seen rod and reel set ups like that in flea markets and in old 1890-WW1 catalogs. I don't think that is a fly reel, but rather that it dates from the era of "strip off some line and lob a gob of worms out into the channel". We had some steel rods, boat rods, for fishing pike and muskie, trolling that is. Awful things to use compared to the glass rods of the 60's and 70s, but they were state of the art at one time.

 

[JWFilips]

It is wrapped with the original black dacron light line ....Can't cast fly's with that !
I think Bret hit it closer
Will clean it up and give it a try ....Like shooting an old mil surplus!

 

[Kevin Stenberg]

Rally i resemble that. I have a 4' solid metal rod, with agate eyes (3) and a bait casting reel. On display.
I also have 3 of the old winter fishing "sticks" with the spike that comes out of the front end of the stick. The spike was used to stick into the ice to hold the rod vertical. They still have the line on them that we used before they were put away.
I still can't believe how many sunfish we caught using 6 and 8 lb. stiff mono.
When i started winter fishing. I was so young that when i caught a fish. Dad had me hold my pole straight up in the air and RUN away from the hole till the fish popped up out of the hole. I would stand there till he (dad) unhooked the fish, rebaited and started feeding line back down the hole. An i would walk back to the hole as fast as the line went down. That is no lie

 

[Bret4207]

Brings back memories Kevin. Catching trout with a snelled #4 hook baited with about the worst looking so called "worms" that ever came out of the ground, flung into the water from a Zebco spin cast spooled up with 10 or 12lbs line, the stiffest mono ever made, on a rod that had as much play in it as a pool cue! Either we were taken pity on by the gods of fishing or those were some of the most desperate trout to have ever swum a stream!