Spinning Reels.

[3wt]

If you don't mind weight and noise, I'd get on ebay and find an old Garcia Mitchel 308. You should probably only use it with an old fiberglass ultralight to get the full effect.

[crappiefisherman]

a fenwick rod 3wt,

[taxidermist]

TUrned out to be a bent bail, heck if I know how it got bent but it happened, the tech at BOS showed me how to repair it shoud it happen again..

This reel has been wet from a dump in the river, wet from the torential down poors. and this was the first time I had any problems with it, I will buy another Shimano Sahara 2500FB, very good reel for the money. It has probabley 300 hours fishing time on it this year and now its fixed will get another 40 before the first of the year.

John

[Dutch]

I thought it very strange for you to think it was worn out. I have some Symmetrys with 7 years use at about 100 days per year and they are like new in the way they work. I have only had to replace 2 roller clutches and 1 bail spring in all this time.

[3wt]

crappiefisherman,

Funny you should say that. My dad had a cool old Fenwich/Garcia Mitchell combo years ago that he left on a sandbar on the current river.

[creek wader]

I bought a Shimano Solstace Spinning Reel, last spring. I was slaying crappie on the Lower Osage, about a month ago. Then the bail wouldn't flip back. I took it apart and it had a "spung" spring. I tried to fix it to no avail. Had to give up that day. I took it home and worked on it, still couldn't be fixed. It'll be going back to Cabela's in the next few days. I loved the reel up to that point.

[crappiefisherman]

3wt , my first trout combo when i was a young kid was a mithchel 308 on a yellow fenwick fiberglass blank that my dad tied for me for christmas one year.He built many rods when i was a kid.I caught a 9 lb rainbow on it when I was 13