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FISHING STORIES / Re: My FIRST FISHING REEL
« Last post by nomdeplume57 on August 14, 2020, 09:53:31 am »
Thanks good sir . I do have an ample supply of those now however it seems I am always adding to the pot.
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FISHING STORIES / Re: My FIRST FISHING REEL
« Last post by DutchFisher on August 14, 2020, 06:39:41 am »
ZEBCO 202 ZEE BEE

If you are looking: There is one for sale now at ebay! With the original box ...
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FISHING STORIES / Re: Zander or wallyeye?
« Last post by nomdeplume57 on August 14, 2020, 04:33:11 am »
Leo ,yes it is permitted to put links like this up here so I modified it to go .
Great video ,Thanks
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FISHING STORIES / Zander or wallyeye?
« Last post by DutchFisher on August 14, 2020, 01:54:15 am »
I know it as snoek-baars (pike-bass) but you guys will call it a zander i thaught because a fishinguide near Amsterdam calls it that. How to fish it? Many ways! Lures, tralling, livefishbait isn’t allowed anymore in The Netherlands, that would be my favorite. But oldscool with dead bait is my second best option.

Fishing Guide Amsterdam explains it well on his youtube channel. His record bass of 84 was 48 cm ofcoars. He has more films of catching zander with lures aswell.

Not sure if it is allowed to put an link here so i sort of disabled it. Take away the spaces between the htps and you will have the full link:

Sure you can put up a link . I modified it (admin)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=h3ybUnSeV-Y




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FISHING STORIES / Re: My FIRST FISHING REEL
« Last post by DutchFisher on August 13, 2020, 12:07:20 pm »
Oh dame thiefs! Today i went fishing. When i got back one of the rollers of my trailer was stolen so the boat wasn’t well supported on the way back. But all went right. Luckely i think they were disturbed because the otherone was unbolted!

And all thatfor a couple of euro’s/dollars.

My mate had 2 zanders by the way! 63 and 69 cm. I was about 2-3 meters next of him and hand no bite 😁
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FISHING STORIES / Re: It wasn't my first
« Last post by nomdeplume57 on August 12, 2020, 11:41:09 am »
Great Story and thanks for sharing it here.
Seems like your old Reel was calling out to you  to LOOK UP !!!!!!!
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FISHING STORIES / Re: My FIRST FISHING REEL
« Last post by nomdeplume57 on August 12, 2020, 11:12:44 am »
Ate the bass and framed in the rod/reel i suppose? ;-) Isn't it great toe have such memory's, thanks for sharing.

I will tell my story in the next topic.

I wished .  Unfortunately my Rod and Reel of my Boyhood Escapades was stolen along with my 1957 Chevrolet Bel Aire Coupe when I was 17 years old .
Got the Car back completely Stripped and all contents in the Trunk GONE as well ,Tools,Fishing Rods and Reels,Tackle Box and My boss's at the time Jig saw ............
They took the intake Manifold  , AFB Carburetor,and Custom Fuel Injected heads off my engine  and left the Block as it would only fit 55 to 57 cars because of the front engine mounts only.
Got it back together and had to drive to School and work on a five gallon bucket for some time before I could get a new front seat.
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FISHING STORIES / It wasn't my first
« Last post by DutchFisher on August 12, 2020, 03:18:25 am »
Nope, that was the ACE 200. A very common spinningreel that my parents sold in their tackleshop. So i was very used to look at it and even get it from the wall to sort of play with it for a while. There wasn.t real pride in that one once i had it on my own rod. I worked for it so i earned it. The rod broke at te first day i fished with it. It was an aluminium rod, allmost like a antenna from an old car. Ofcoars it broke when a zander of aboud 2 ft took my bait. But i reeled it in anyway so that is what i was proud of.


But the second reel: That's what is story is realy about.

My father was sort of cleaning up his fishinggear. It still amazes me how much stuff he had. Rods in the dozen, reels double of that, floats of all kinds, and ofcoars lures because he was a fanatic on catching pike and zander. As he was going to his stuff i got some of his older material. I still have a ABU lure thats even older than me. A float i lost during a fishingtrip. But this red rod with an alien system as a reel on it had my interest for years now. It was his Browning 63 LH in a white/red color so a very early one. I wasn't allowed to touch it so fishing with it was totally out of the question. Even doagh my father didn't use it himself.

I was about 13 years when i got it from him. Man was i proud to own it and be able to go out fishing with it. What would my friends say. No one i knew had a rod like this. I wept when i dropped it and a small damage on the reel was a result. But nothing was broken. Allmost every day i went out to atleast trow out a couple of casts and try to find a small bass. Most of them where 10-15 cm, les than 1/2 a ft. Some bigger but i think the biggest was around 25-30 cm. The rod was like a part of my arm and i could ecactly get my lure (spinner mostly) where i wanted it. Even under a small overgrow or obstacle. Untill i was about 18-19 i fished almoost every day but after that i had other things that needed to be done. But atleast once or twice a month i would be looking for bass or zander.

And then something bad happened. At about 30 allmost all of my fishinggear was stolen. I only had my Hardy Benelux and some ABU 305 left and some of the old lures just because i kept those at a diffirent location at that time. But my priceless Browning was gone. I had reason to think who could have done it but without proof there is nothing to do about it.

For years i went looking for it at marketplaces and fairs and so on. Now i discovered that because of no one knew or even heard about it was super interesting back in the years but a problem now. Ofcoars there where no picturres of it. And i am bad in remembering names. So i couldn't tell the brand. Thoaght it was Bronco and when the internet came the only hits i got at my search where cars of that brand. After some years i started to forget about it and even stopped fishing for years but the Browning was never totally forgotten.

In The Netherlands we have marktplaats.nl It is some sort of ebay for the Dutch en Belgium market. I looked at it for the so manyest time looking out for some older lures. Because i was building up a collection of vintage fishing material again. Again i tryed to look for Bronco but not the hits i wished for. Then i saw some spinners i used to often fish with. I contacted the seller, we came to an agreement and he sent me his name and banknumber so i could pay. That name was familiar to me. This man could be the person that had a tacklestore aswell. I asked him and he confirmed. So we chatted a couple of messages and then it came to me. Bronco? Wasn't is Bronson? So i emediately looked for Bronson reels at the internet. That's how i found ORCA. And browsing trough their site i found a picture in a folder! MAN, for the first time in about 24 years i saw a Bronson 63 as an immage. SO i contacted ORCA, told them my story and i got an account there. I asked if someone knew a 63 Left Handed (LH) and got the advice to look for it on e-bay. It's so much easier knowing the brand/type!

As soon as i looked on e-bay i found at least about 5 advertisements of Bronco 63. And i found out that there were more types of it. Mine, was red/white but later came a red/black version. And there even was a 66 green version. And a gold one. Some rods where battered, some reels where battered, but one set was very complete. The combo had diffirent rodtips, the case and even some folders with it! Unlucky the seller who i contacted immediately wasn't willing or able to ship it to The Netherlands and sold it to someonde in Canada.

But another one was for sale in Germany. The price looked reasenable so i baught it! And some week or so later it was delivered to my house. At last, i had a Bronson 63 red/white again. The advertisement didn't tell about the technical faillure in the mechanism but i couldn/t care less. I had it, and i would be able to repair it i suppose.


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That morning i made a picture of it and sent in via Whatsapp to my fishingfriends. Now i could show them what is had been asking and talking about all those years. Still in the mood and emotion of finding it i went to the local tackleshop where i come for many years now. The owner saw me but was bussy with a costumer. We normaly drink a cup of coffe when i am there and i had nod visitted him for a couple of years now. So i understood what he ment when he mimed drinking coffee. I looked in the shelfs to see what new lures where on the market nowadays and thaught that some would catch more fisherman than fish ;-) Than it happened: Without any reason i lokked up. And ther, above the shells, under the seeling was a blue rod hanging with a Bronson 63 red/white LF under it. I could not believe my eyes. It wasn't my rod for sure. But that reel lokked so familiair to me. I took another look at it and without any doubt i saw my own Browning! The dammage from when i dropped it was still there and i knew it like a pinguinmom would looking for her child.
When the shopowner was ready he came to me. I was a bit shook up and said i had to talk to him first. I pointed at the combo above us and asked him: Did you get it from so and so a person? He said yes. Then i told him he wouldn't believe what i was going to show him, the appmessage of that morning. I told him what happened and without thinking he took a ladder (stairs) and took it from the seeling to give it to me. It wasn't my rod and the shopowner told me that was broken and thisone was put on later.

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I left without the things i came for but with the prommisse to compensate him with material from my collection. At home my wife was in the garden and saw something was 'wrong' with me. I told her what just happened and tears where running over my cheaks. For that moment i was i young boy of 13 again. You must understand that reel STANDS FOR my youth. That night i was kept awake by memory's, exitement and emotion.

The next day i went back to the shop to deliver some materials. A couple of early rods and some reels made the owner very exited and he emadiately started to give them a nice spot in his shop. Some of it is on the seeling allready. waiting to telle story's to people who look up every now and then ;-)

My reel is working well but someone glued the cap to the reel. I think with 2 components so i will be looking out for a way to remove that. Perhaps bij warming it with a hotairgun? But not sure of more dammage especially on the paint. And someone did a very bad job on replacing the rod. I took it of because it was to disturbing to let it sit there. The whole part of the front handle is missing, probbebly been cut off.

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For now i took the reel of the handle and placed it on the rod i baught via e-bay. I have some new line on it and it is ready to go fishing. Some of these days soon i wil go out and if a zander grabs my bait my story will be complete again.

Well, not yet. I have some questions about repairs to be made. Hopefully some people here can help me out with tips and tricks. But about that i will start another topic when i have more time.

This finding happened in the last couple of weeks. I am 54 now.

Enjoy what you do!

Kind regards, Leo/DutchFisher
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FISHING STORIES / Re: My FIRST FISHING REEL
« Last post by DutchFisher on August 12, 2020, 01:59:29 am »
Ate the bass and framed in the rod/reel i suppose? ;-) Isn't it great toe have such memory's, thanks for sharing.

I will tell my story in the next topic.
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FISHING STORIES / My FIRST FISHING REEL
« Last post by nomdeplume57 on August 09, 2020, 06:47:32 pm »
I was about 10 years old in 1962 and Mannings Department Store in my Hometown was having a sale and the ZEBCO 202 ZEE BEE was on it for the Huge price of Three Dollars and 50 cents and I had just that amount from Mowing a yard or two and cashing in some pop bottles so bought one and then had to save up for a rod in a week or so later for 5 BUCKS nearly twice the price of the Reel.
Got it all hooked up and took off to the River .Caught some perch and decided to put one of the smaller ones (all of them were small ) on a hook and chunk it out to the middle of the River (Creek  size Really ) and low and behold hung something that bent the rod double and I was in for the battle of my young years .
It was all I could do to hold the Rod and try and Reel in the fish but the  Reel just made a high pitched ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ to which I thought that's where they got the ZEE BEE on the Box . The reel was literally smoking from my endeavor to pull in my catch which I ended up grabbing the line and wading out to meet the monster 3 pound Black Bass and wind the line in on my arm. I now know about the little wheel on the top to adj Drag and if I had known then would probably have lost the fish to a broken line .
Suffice it to say we ate FRESH BLACK BASS for dinner .
The Reel was Toast but got my first job done !!!!!
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