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Tim PloughNman Daley

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Tim Daley(MI)
 
(quoted from post at 11:43:16 06/27/18) Nice reels, look like about the same age as some of our tractors. What models?

Jim,

Thanks, I was hoping someone would appreciate them. Those were my mom and dad's Great Lakes Whirlaway 75 reels. both my parents were avid fishermen. I used to borrow my mom's green one for my many fishing trips. On that one you split the case to change the drag, but on my dad's later see-thru model, the drag was on the outside at the butt end.

They are to me the greatest reels that ever were. You click the handle backwards to flip the bale inside for casting, but then you have fingertip control where the line comes out under your thumb. Perfectly balanced; made it easier slogging through the bush along a wild creek too and because of the thumb control they won casting accuracy contests.

They floated if they fell overboard too. :D

You're right about the 50's vintage.

Here's an excerpt from the Whirlaway Story
"During a recent ORCA (Old Reel Collectors Association) National Meet in Texas, Warren stepped up to the line (amid snickers of disbelief) in the vintage spinning reel accuracy contest with a Whirlaway 75 in hand. The judge in charge of the contest allowed that he hoped Warren didn't win or everybody would show the next time with "one of those contraptions." Warren proceeded to win the event going away, with a near perfect score!"

Cheers,
Terry
 

Den,

Lucky you!
After my dad passed that one on to me, the cast aluminum rod pocket with the set screws, had swelled up and was cracking the plastic reel snout with the expansion. One fine day, just the snout of one of them showed up at a local thrift shop so I was a happy camper . . . and fisherman. :)

Terry
 
Lucky you, I just got off a 14 hour work day and driving over 500 miles to boot, fish are bedding at my lake property, bluegills that is, maybe this Saturday I can snag a few if their still bedding
 
You're close Lawson! Grandkids were over last weekend and I took them down to the lake/pond to teach them to fish. Actually it is an old gravel pit, so is deep, cold, and spring fed water. I could see the bluegill spawning beds and with my Ultra-Light rod in my picture on 4-lb test, a dinky bluegill feels like a 10-lb walleye! I once had a 4" bluegill hit my 6" Rapala lure while trolling. That's an original MEPPS spinner attached to my line. I've had it since my teens. I've caught many fish with it including a 17" Brown Trout on the Au Sable River. 0

Tim Daley(MI)
 

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