Rare Vintage Shakespear Spin-casting Rod and Reel

[Battleborn_JKU]

I decided to hit one of our local long-unused fishing ponds yesterday. After 30 minutes of pulling up the usual jars of bait and spinners, I decided to drag my magnet underneath the dock in 8 feet of water. To my surprise, I pulled up rod and reel number 8 in just the last 60 days! It turned out to be a rare, 1980's vintage Shakespear 035 Series 2000 spin-caster, mated to a Fenwick Blackhawk 5'-3" graphite rod! After completely disassembling, cleaning and re-lubing the gears, it spins as smoothly as when it was new!

 

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[bowwinkles]

Nice catch, I pulled in a 5000 C level wind and custom casting rod the other day.

 

[A2coins]

Cool find it cleaned up really well awesome

 

[A2coins]

Welcome also from MI Tommy

 

[Battleborn_JKU]

Cool find it cleaned up really well awesome

I didn't have much hope, because it looked like it had been down there for more than a little while! One thing can be said for old school reels: they're not cursed with alien-like technology! When I remove the side plate, I found that there were gears instead of bearings. It was a breeze to clean them up and simply apply new grease.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Very nice catch!

Welcome to the forum!

 

[BLK HOLE]

Very cool haul and welcome to T-Net!

 

[nomad 11]

Nice catch, I pulled in a 5000 C level wind and custom casting rod the other day.

a 5000c you say ? what color is it ?

 

[nomad 11]

I decided to hit one of our local long-unused fishing ponds yesterday. After 30 minutes of pulling up the usual jars of bait and spinners, I decided to drag my magnet underneath the dock in 8 feet of water. To my surprise, I pulled up rod and reel number 8 in just the last 60 days! It turned out to be a rare, 1980's vintage Shakespear 035 Series 2000 spin-caster, mated to a Fenwick Blackhawk 5'-3" graphite rod! After completely disassembling, cleaning and re-lubing the gears, it spins as smoothly as when it was new!
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for an old reel that preserved nicely. makes me wonder how long it was down there. maybe some fish admired it also and kept polishing it up

 

[vpnavy]

Nice finds Battleborn! Thanks for sharing...

 

[Megalodon]

That is a nice outfit now that you have cleaned it up and greased the reel. It looks perfectly usable. I use rods and reels and even lures that are much older and get a kick out of catching a fish on gear that is 50-60 years old.

I don't know if the terminology has changed - but that is a spinning reel, not a spin-cast reel. A spin-cast reel is a closed face push button reel.