joefromchicago
Steelhead
Was a Mitchell 300 kid. That, a Reeder Rod (one piece) and a Mepps spinner caught many steelhead.
Great Garage sale scores
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In celebration of Garage sale season I have this $5 Loomis to add to the collection. I had her call her husband to make sure it wasn't his special rod. This wasn't it so they said how about $5. I did not haggle....
Also picked up a Minn Kota Endura C2 30lb for $20
Also picked up a Minn Kota Endura C2 30lb for $20
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cdnred
Life of the Party
Garage sales can become addictive..
Been a long while since adding to this thread. Found some great deals since.
Today, I went back to a sale that had a Shimano Tyrnos 20 two speed for sale asking $200. I was going to make him an offer. He had sold it yesterday he said for $100. I said I was considering offering that but didn't want to insult him. He mentioned some guys bought $1k worth of Loomis rods and rigs from inside his garage. I asked if he had other rigs in there he would sell, and I was in. I spotted two right off I wanted. I brought them to him and asked what he wanted. He said he wouldn't take less than $100 each. I had some other tackle in hand and asked if they were included in the price. Sure, and we made a deal. We talked fishing for a while and shared stories. I could tell he was beyond his saltwater fishing days.
I left with a old school Tekota LC 500 with Buzz Ramsey rod and the bigger score, Shimano Trinidad 14 on Trevala combo. Both in great shape, just dusty. He said Tekota was only used once. It looks that way too.
Now to sell one of the newer Tekota LC to pay for most of the score.
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Today, I went back to a sale that had a Shimano Tyrnos 20 two speed for sale asking $200. I was going to make him an offer. He had sold it yesterday he said for $100. I said I was considering offering that but didn't want to insult him. He mentioned some guys bought $1k worth of Loomis rods and rigs from inside his garage. I asked if he had other rigs in there he would sell, and I was in. I spotted two right off I wanted. I brought them to him and asked what he wanted. He said he wouldn't take less than $100 each. I had some other tackle in hand and asked if they were included in the price. Sure, and we made a deal. We talked fishing for a while and shared stories. I could tell he was beyond his saltwater fishing days.
I left with a old school Tekota LC 500 with Buzz Ramsey rod and the bigger score, Shimano Trinidad 14 on Trevala combo. Both in great shape, just dusty. He said Tekota was only used once. It looks that way too.
Now to sell one of the newer Tekota LC to pay for most of the score.
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Wife picked up a Lamson Liquid 3+ for $1 a few years back. Best score either of us has had fishing wise.
JimTravers¤£a!!Travers
Steelhead
BIG BOZE HEADPHONES!!!!
MarlinMark
Smolt
WHAT?
Modest_Man
Steelhead
I picked up a Sage 3250 reel for $5 this weekend. My first ever Sage purchase.
Chris Bellows
Steelhead
Got two brand new boat fenders for $5. Perfect timing as I was picking up a boat a week later.
Got a fruitcake tin full of Gramma's old threads in a variety of colors for like $5. I've used these to tie >15+ years now. I think maybe one fancy spool for tying that I got from a Flyshop cost more than that entire haul. That shop-purchased thread, when I used it, has yet to catch me a fish, G-ma's cottons, on the other hand, are fantastic. Some of the bobbins are wood. The fonts on the thread labels are from the good time. There's magic in that tin, those threads never run out.
Spools of thread from the garage sale: $5
Gammie's mojo on whatever comes out of the fruitcake tin: priceless
Spools of thread from the garage sale: $5
Gammie's mojo on whatever comes out of the fruitcake tin: priceless
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You said the bobbins are wood but I'm guessing you maybe meant the spools? Do these magical gramma threads have spools that fit a fly tying bobbin? Or have you fashioned a suitable vise and bobbin out of wayward beach flotsam and driftwood?
Nah- they are synonyms, you can google wooden spool and wooden bobbin and you get the same, probably a more archaic english use of bobbin. (In some ways the fly tyer's bobbin is a weirder provenance than the bobbin itself.) The fruit cake tin is from Dundee so I'm thinking a Scots G'ma. Matt, If you want to go deep, and because you're a water guy, there's the Lowell National Historical Park in Lowell Massachusetts devoted to weaving and thread technology plus industrial use of millpower, spools and bobbins galore. And yes- the bobbins fit the fly-tyer's bobbin!
If you do this excursion, say in May, massive striped bass are stopped by the first dam on the Merrimac as they chase the herring upstream, literally a couple miles down from the Historical park, not in Lowell but in Lawrence, MA....
PLus, if you want to go deeper yet, best prep for modern day Lowell is watching "The Fighter" where Christian Bale steals every scene, except the one where his sisters rock up to mess with Amy Adams....
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