A few extra bucks

[BilletHead]

     A couple of years' worth.  Easy to do and if over 50 shipping is paid. 

[Flysmallie]

Seems like a ton of work for sixty bucks. I would have had them send me a bunch of #2 and #3 Aglias. 

[BilletHead]

2 hours ago, Flysmallie said:

Seems like a ton of work for sixty bucks. I would have had them send me a bunch of #2 and #3 Aglias. 

     I'm cleaning squirrel for eating and it is no trouble to snip off the tail with garden or kitchen shears. They are bone in and all you have to do is salt the butt of the tail. Takes seconds.

  In the mid to late 70s I bought my first ambassador, Lined it up with Dacron line with no mono leader.  You just did not need it back then as you probably don't now. After ice out I would throw and slowly retrieve #4 and #5 Mepps spinners dressed and plain. Caught many big bass doing that on farm ponds.  

[Flysmallie]

It was definitely the seventies when I got my first Ambassador. We were fishing a farm pond and my uncle yanked my Zebco out of my hands and handed me a new rod with a 2500. He threw my Zebco up in the cattle pasture and told me I was done fishing like a girl. I was 7 or 8 so it was 1976 or 1977. 

[BilletHead]

9 minutes ago, Flysmallie said:

It was definitely the seventies when I got my first Ambassador. We were fishing a farm pond and my uncle yanked my Zebco out of my hands and handed me a new rod with a 2500. He threw my Zebco up in the cattle pasture and told me I was done fishing like a girl. I was 7 or 8 so it was 1976 or 1977. 

    You are still a pup.  I was 18 in 76. 

[jdmidwest]

I clip my tails and salt the butt, then hang to use for a trap.  Work pretty good for the nosey ones.

[rps]

My first "big boy" reel was a hand me down, knuckle buster Shakespeare President. It had Dacron line called coach dog on it. Late 50's. I also used a Mitchell spinning reel. If memory serves my father put them on solid fiberglass rods.

[Daryk Campbell Sr]

That's pretty cool.   50 bucks is fifty bucks.  Especially if its for a by product anyhow.  I wasn't aware that there was still a market for them.   

[Quillback]

Speaking of spinners, as a 12 year old I threw "Shyster" spinners.  I think they were 79 cents each back then which would be 69-70.  My 12 yo self preferred them for bass over a Mepps.  Mepps were always a little more expensive too.

[kjackson]

My first "adult" reel was a Winona--kind of a side-casting reel that you'll occasionally  see on eBay listed as a "fly fishing" reel.  Dad had a friend build a rod for me to use, with the Winona, to fish for steelhead, mostly in the nearby Puyallup River.  The reel was modified a bit by taking off the line guide.  Still have it kicking around somewhere, although I did change it over to a reel for lead core.  Then I "inherited" a 5500 that my FIL wasn't using. That one I had a guy in Seattle modify to a direct drive for use in salmon mooching.  Still have it squirreled away somewhere as well.