I'm definitely the king of the luddites but hope these downloaded photos of my reel and its paperwork come through. I'm getting dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century, hate gadgetry and am the proverbial old dog that hates new tricks. However, learning the occasional new trick is probab...

Thank you all for your prompt, informative replies. It was thoughtful of you and helpful to me to learn about my "new" four-decade-old reel. And I received a nice welcome to the site. Nice touch that. It was good to receive pointers/suggestions about getting it ready after a long storage, ...

In July 1978 I received a garcia Mitchell 900 reel as a birthday gift. Believe it or not I never used it. It's still in the original box. I think it's time to get back into fishing and to initiate it. I haven't fished in years. Growing up with spin-cast (closed face) reels I was intimidated by spinn...