So I am at an auction last night and I do not usually buy this stuff because of my ignorance but when I was able to get it for $7 I grabbed it. Shakespeare Centurion 1960 Fishing Reel. Great petina and seems to be in perfect working order. Has a cork spindle to wrap the line on. Drag works as well as the line guide. Very smooth. I have no idea if i pizzed $7 away on a wall hanger or if something worth a few dollars more than I paid?? Any ideas??
You really won't know how well that reel works untill you put some line on it, and add a little weight to the end of the line. With presure, it might slip. If it works well, then you did good. There may be a collector value on a reel this old, but I wouldn't have a clue in that department. I do know that some of the lures form days gone by are worth a lot of money. Maybe your reel is too!
Great looking old real. When I was 13 I broke my hip and spent six months on crutches. Dad said this was a good time to master the level wind real. I had a brand new Criterion real and fiberglass rod. So dad set me in a chair in the yard and a target a good cast away. I spent hours doing that and became a proficient bait caster, a skill that lasted me a life time. I graduated to the Ambassador 5000 series of reals but a level wind has always been my favorite. This last year I gave all and I mean all of my fishing equipment away. Fishing in Ohio mostly sucks.
I hope I die with a fishing pole in my hand! Second choice, sitting under a very large pine tree, with a gun, waiting on a trophy buck to walk by! To me that's going out 1st Class!
Today..dink Whiting, pup Sharks and Stingrays. Been that way, everyday, for weeks. Fishing plays double-duty..might catch some fish, but definitely relaxes the ol brain.
I was just breaking out some fishing equipment after a few years of not fishing and found my old Criterion. This post is what I found when I looked it up.
Anyway, I plan on doing some fishing with my Penn 9/0 when I get off work again. There is a point of rocks at Perdido Pass that seem like a good place to fight sharks from the shore.
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