Rod and reel recovered.

[Clete]

Snagged while fishing Viney in the James, Tuesday.  Looks to have been in water a while.  Curious to see any response.

 

[fshndoug]

looks to be about 100 years old

 

[Al Agnew]

Doesn't take long for them to deteriorate.  I lost a fly rod one time in the Yellowstone, knew about exactly where it was, waited two weeks for warmer weather and went swimming for it.  Found it.  The reel was toast, way too much sand in it.  The rod was okay once I cleaned up the algae on it, but the cork handle looked like it had been chewed by a mouse.

When I was a kid, I went on a vacation with a friend's family.  We were fishing below the dam at Wappapello when I snagged a rod, cheap glass rod with a Zebco 202.  It hadn't been in the river long, but the reel was in sorry shape.  I could cast about 20 feet with it.  Later that week, we relocated to Clearwater, and we went up the lake from Bluff View and stopped on a gravel bar at the head of the lake to fish for catfish.  I had brought along the Zebco, so I baited it up with a couple kernels of canned corn and tossed it out the regulation 20 feet, propped it on a stick, and went about baiting up my other rods.  I looked up just in time to see that Zebco go flying through the air and into the lake!  I guess that rod and reel was just meant to be lost.

[Maverickpro201]

That looks like one I lost, when I had a 10LB BASS on it. Did you find my fish also?😜