Vintage Ultralight

How small is your rod and how light is your line? It's not about the size of your tackle, but how you work it. Come share your Ultralight and Bait Finesse System (BFS) fishing success here!
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Re: Vintage Ultralight

Post by Smead » Wed Nov 03, 2021 12:31 pm

doug in co wrote:
Wed Nov 03, 2021 9:50 am
Smead wrote:
Tue Nov 02, 2021 5:28 pm
I like Mitchell 308s, but you have to work with the reels a bit to learn their oddities regarding line lay...there's a lot of other ways to screw them up too. They are easy to take apart, usually a good thing, unless whoever did it put them back together wrong. Mitchell was also odd in sticking to line guides for most of their reels until the 1970s and not really having decent line rollers until the early 1980s.
my 308 still going strong after 45 years..
https://alantani.com/index.php?topic=34 ... #msg402326
I really like them...nice engineering. I use 304's too after converting them right back to planamatic gearing.

On a user reel you can put the latest bail from the 1980's on even the earliest 308 models if you want...you just have to use the late bail's longer #1 and #2 bail screws if you do that.

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Re: Vintage Ultralight

Post by Smead » Wed Nov 03, 2021 12:35 pm

Smead wrote:
Thu Oct 28, 2021 8:47 pm
Discovering why that little 850 Spinlite cost as much as the 860 surf casting reel...a bronze main gear and probably a steel pinion, will check with a magnet when I get it completely apart.
The pinion is indeed steel, so a pretty robust main gear and pinion!!

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Re: Vintage Ultralight

Post by tincanary » Wed Nov 03, 2021 1:12 pm

doug in co wrote:
Wed Nov 03, 2021 9:50 am
Smead wrote:
Tue Nov 02, 2021 5:28 pm
I like Mitchell 308s, but you have to work with the reels a bit to learn their oddities regarding line lay...there's a lot of other ways to screw them up too. They are easy to take apart, usually a good thing, unless whoever did it put them back together wrong. Mitchell was also odd in sticking to line guides for most of their reels until the 1970s and not really having decent line rollers until the early 1980s.
my 308 still going strong after 45 years..
https://alantani.com/index.php?topic=34 ... #msg402326
Hey I started that thread lol

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Re: Vintage Ultralight

Post by Smead » Wed Nov 03, 2021 1:30 pm

I can spend hours and hours reading over there!

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Re: Vintage Ultralight

Post by tincanary » Wed Nov 03, 2021 1:49 pm

Smead wrote:
Wed Nov 03, 2021 1:30 pm
I can spend hours and hours reading over there!
Same here brother. Great bunch of people there and a wealth of knowledge.

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