the good old days
do you remember when Nixon was president and he made a deal with the Russians to sell them wheat. the news media was all up in arms predicting bread was going to cost us a $1.00 a loaf. oh for the good ol days.
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You might say I'm a reel fan of the old Mitchell's. 😉
Speaking of the Mitchell 301's I've salvaged some of those that were in pretty bad shape and took parts and made a good one. I did some sandblasting and repainting and it turned out pretty nice. You won't find much plastic in any of these old Mitchel reels. The crank handle is the biggest piece and there's some of the spools made out of some type of plastic..
The 301 is for left handed people and people were always getting them mixed up because they're made to cast with your left hand and crank with your right hand. I could never get used to reeling with my right hand. Of course you could cast with your right hand but you have to switch it over to your left hand in order to reel it.
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my first real fishing reel was a Mitchell 300 i got in the early 60's. i caught a lot of fish with that thing in WVa, mostly trout on the Cranberry river. after entering the service in 1969 i ended up in Biloxi , Ms. and used that Mitchell in the salty Gulf. soon found out it was not a saltwater reel. my dad used an Orvis 100 open face from the 60's until the 90's when he passed. that Orvis is as good as the day it was built. i still have that reel and this post has given me an idea. i think i will clean it up a little and give it to my son this Christmas. i think he will really appreciate it.
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thanks Smitty
that turned out nice
when I got my 301 I had no idea they had all the variation's I still cast with my right hand and use my right hand to crank with so it was fate LOL
I have since bought a few 300's and at least one more 301 I found I think even a 400 ( ?) a few of the plastic boxes they came in also , I would run across them at swap meets or flea markets and buy them I still have some not even sure how many less then 10 any way total I had even found a few over the years with the original box and serial numbers matching the reel and on the box label but sold them as I was not a collector but was happy to make a couple dollars when I sold them .
as far as right or left hand even the newer reels I have bought but even that was 20+ years ago I would look for the ones I could switch the crank handle to the right side
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 in 1969 i ended up in Biloxi , Ms. and used that Mitchell in the salty Gulf. soon found out it was not a saltwater reel.Â
Even the ones called salt water reels have to be cleaned pretty good after using or they'll get corroded and look like crap in short order.
302 Salt Water
402 Salt Water
I put some sealed ceramic bearing in this 402 Salt Water.
If you ever come across a 302 or a 402 don't make the mistake of unscrewing the plastic drag wing nut on top of the spool in order to remove the spool or you'll open up a can of worms 'cause there's about 14 washers, springs and spacers under there. Don't ask me how i know. 😀 You need to just get a hold of the top of the spool and unscrew the whole thing from the reel counterclockwise.
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smitty
I know I have pulled this thread way off course to the rest I apologize
to Smitty again thanks for the info you have provided over time on here and sharing your collection(s) a bit jealous of course but happy for you the neon signs you have also blew me away ..
now I will have dig out the Mitchel's reels and see what the larger one I had actual is . people like you and many others ( I could not list them all and not miss one so I do not want to hurt any ones feelings ) who share there abilities in so many areas but safe to say is what keeps me coming back here I did buy a few spare parts many years ago after seeing your restorations but there side tracked with many more projects I fear I will not get to
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Here's how my dad did it, and how he taught me to do it too. At some point he moved up to an automatic fly reel and I kept getting his old manual ones.
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BobJudy: 30484921598875/comments/30484956461339
I remember that in about 1980 I was making about $30,000 a year and back then that was darn good money. Nice new cars/trucks were $3000 and CCI 22 ammo was about $7 a brick. Fast food lunches, (that I ate to many of) were around $2. Times sure have changed. Bob
i bought a brand new chevy monza fot $4,750- made $13,500 fresh out of college
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In 1978. I was working construction union about 6 months in I think around 12.00+ a hour up from the 160 .00 a week salary at the grocery store I was making I bought a new mustang king cobra cost 6k and change a new trans-am was about the same cost that was early spring .
About a month later while crusing town I met and in a few weeks 5 or 6 and I lost my mind . I fell completely in love just about a year later June 1979 we got married . She has put up me and my hobbies ever since .
. 5 years later our first son came along then 3 years later our second son and last kid came along
Great family would not trade them for any thing
But omg I miss being young and free and how life was back then no PC bs no woke bs so much more common ground I guess you could say for me any way the police well all Leo and us kids all got along great but they did not have to fear getting shot like today
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I wonder... how much of that carefree, happy-go-lucky, look on the bright side attitude came because we didn't have cell phones and social media? We weren't bombarded with hourly news cycles and our blood pressure wasn't through the roof all the time with what those @#$^&& liberals were up to, or what shenanigans the &%^*^&$ conservatives were trying to pull?
You looked your neighbor in the eye and you knew his name. You probably knew the names of 100 people in your circle. You helped each other out and got help when you needed it. The thing that mattered was people, not politics.
Since my long hospital stay I was completely cut off from never-ending politics and news cycles, and I am much, much, much happier because of it. I don't read that crap, I don't listen to it, I won't get sucked in again.
Join me. Please. You'll be glad you did. These are still the good old days.
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We do tend to see with happiness filters, however. My old days came a bit before some of yours, and I remember a lot of the not-so-good things. Things like scarlet fever, rubella, mumps, and polio. iron lungs, leg braced kids, and headstones with dates far too close together. There were The Bomb and CONELRAD, Sputnik and the Missile Crisis, Bay of Pigs and Russian nukes in Cuba.
Lurking behind all the happy faces was a lot of fear back then. All of it justified.
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Rocky Raab: 30484921598875/comments/
We do tend to see with happiness filters, however. My old days came a bit before some of yours, and I remember a lot of the not-so-good things. Things like scarlet fever, rubella, mumps, and polio. iron lungs, leg braced kids, and headstones with dates far too close together. There were The Bomb and CONELRAD, Sputnik and the Missile Crisis, Bay of Pigs and Russian nukes in Cuba.
Lurking behind all the happy faces was a lot of fear back then. All of it justified.
At 66 years, I remember all of those things too.
The pretentious moral superior attitudes preached by society at large ... TV in particular. Everyone knew June Cleaver (in white gloves) was having it off with the milkman & postman and Ward was a cross dresser, Blondie was the neighborhood whore, Dagwood had a B&D fetish, I won't even start on Roy,Dale and Trigger, yet every Sunday they were in church.
Sin all week and prey on Sunday !!! ...😆😉🤣
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I remember the Nixon-Russian wheat deal, but what I remember more is when Nixon opened up wheeling and dealing with China. I said at the time that he was opening a proverbial can of worms. So think now about what opening ties with China has done to major parts of the U.S. economy.
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Scholars claim that our relations with China are comparable to a game of chess.
I say hog wash to that. It all started with the game of PING PONG and we have been getting backhanded slam spiked in the rear ever since!
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You are right about all the bad things and we do tend to ignore such memories maybe just human nature to focus on the good
The not so good i remember mom and dad struggling to keep us fed and warm and so much we did with out or had to make due
I remember the neighbors sending there kids around to borrow a cup of sugar or flower corn meal or coffee until the next pay day of course borrowing was just a polite way of saving face .
So many common illnesses took life's that now a few shots and pills can use now
But as a kid and not caring like now with 24/7 news and politics all the alphabet groups protesting too name just few
They were not not really good old days but for kids it was much simple
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