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Duckett wrote: ↑Thu Feb 07, 2019 12:22 pm I showed this post to my brother as it sparked a memory. He though that he and our Mum both used these for many years for their beachcasting. In his words, "Large, heavy, maroon-brown and the best fixed spool sea reel we ever used." As a result, we spent a very pleasant hour or so reminiscing about our learning beachcasting in the early 1970s. His PB with his was a 25lb+ conger eel off the rocks at Moelfre, Ynys Mon. We thought Mum's was large pollock off the end of Holyhead Breakwater - I say large, as we remember that it made a huge, and very tasty, fish pie for 5 of us with lots left over!

Stingray wrote: ↑Fri Feb 08, 2019 1:45 pm It has just occurred to me that this thread on the WSF Vintage Fishing Tackle Club forum may be of interest -

https://www.worldseafishing.com/forums/ ... s.3345374/

Trainset wrote: ↑Wed Feb 06, 2019 9:13 pm Hi Bob the foat,
yes please to pictures and any info on parts etc would be great.

Trainset wrote: ↑Wed Feb 06, 2019 9:13 pm Hi Bob the foat,
yes please to pictures and any info on parts etc would be great.

RBTraditional wrote: ↑Tue Feb 12, 2019 8:11 pm Nooooooooooooo!

Thyratron wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 10:58 pm BTF.
I wonder if you could help me.
I have just bought three rather sad looking Daiwa 7700A reels to fettle and use for beach casting on the east coast.

They are a bit corroded, as you would expect in a sea reel that has been neglected, but I reckon I can get two working ones out of the three..

To remove the flyer I need to remove the spindle end which appears to be fixed with a roll pin through the main spindle. The object of this exercise is to fit a spacer washer to take up the play in the assembly.
I cannot find an exploded view of this model and I wondered if by chance you had, or, knew where to obtain one before I attack said spindle with a hammer and pin punch.


Thanks for looking,

Paul.