open faced or closed casting reel ??

[Mugwump]

.....I like the open faced better, more accurate and more fun with the 'smallies'... ....hell even a big bluegill....LOL.............

[wsantia1]

I use my open faced when I go out on a boat.  Casting reel when I'm on the shore.  I'd rather be on the boat because I can't cast as far as I use to.

[JR]

I still have my old Zebco 202 love that reel. Never could get use to a open face.

[Mugwump]

I still have my old Zebco 202 love that reel. Never could get use to a open face.

Zebco rules for the g'kids.............still work for years, no matter how many times they end up in the pond..

[EdKaz]

 Open face unless Im specifically targeting the "river monsters"..........





Than the only thing that holds up is baitcasters

[Ron Sower]

So Ed...What size aquarium did you put that bad boy in? 

[Mugwump]

So Ed...What size aquarium did you put that bad boy in? 

LOL.....

[BallAquatics]

My dad had me using Garcia Mitchell open face reels at a very young age.  When I was just a kid we would spend a week or two every spring fishing in Canada.



When mom and my sister would would go, we would go somewhere civilized like Rice Lake.  When they didn't go, we would go way up north to uncharted areas with some of pops friends from work.  One year we were at this place way up north, 450 miles north of Sault Ste. Marie, Canada, and the northern pike were so big, over 4 feet, that they would take baby ducks from the top of the water.

I've got a photo somewhere of my 5' 8" dad holding up a 4' 10" northern pike standing in front of his '59 Chrysler.

Dennis

[EdKaz]

So Ed...What size aquarium did you put that bad boy in?

Those 3 fish ( as are most fish I catch)were released back into the river in hopes of someone else gets a crack at the adrenaline rush those runaway freight trains WILL give a fisher-person.

[wsantia1]

So Ed...What size aquarium did you put that bad boy in?

Those 3 fish ( as are most fish I catch)were released back into the river in hopes of someone else gets a crack at the adrenaline rush those runaway freight trains WILL give a fisher-person.

Those are some awesome fish.  I'm sure you had a great time working those guys in.

[Mugwump]

..in the Finger Lake region of N Y......in the 50's.....keepers for northern were 40"....anything under you had to toss back....there were some monsters in those lakes...

[sschind]

I still have my old Zebco 202 love that reel. Never could get use to a open face.

Grew up on 33s and its still all my dad will use.  I prefer the open faced now. 

[sschind]

My dad had me using Garcia Mitchell open face reels at a very young age.  When I was just a kid we would spend a week or two every spring fishing in Canada.



When mom and my sister would would go, we would go somewhere civilized like Rice Lake.  When they didn't go, we would go way up north to uncharted areas with some of pops friends from work.  One year we were at this place way up north, 450 miles north of Sault Ste. Marie, Canada, and the northern pike were so big, over 4 feet, that they would take baby ducks from the top of the water.

I've got a photo somewhere of my 5' 8" dad holding up a 4' 10" northern pike standing in front of his '59 Chrysler.

Dennis

Did you always live in Ohio Dennis?  I'm just curious because Rice Lake is not a town most people mention in forums like this.  I mean its not like its Spooner or anything.  I grew up about an hour or so south of Rice Lake in Chippewa Falls.