My First Ever Fishing Reel.

[Aitch]

my first reel was a cotton reel on a long split pin whipped onto a piece of bamboo, the line was waxed silk, my late father brought it back from Hong Kong when I was a tot... I had a small rod made of stiff wire with a built in plastic reelfor a year or two more, then one of those Hungarian Tokoz reels... the first I ever bought with my own money was a Tideflo Strikeright... cost me £6... still got it...

[Stingray]

I have not noticed the spool before, it is in fact cracked. Great reel crap spool.

Ah, sorry about that. I think they are the same spools as the blue The Monarch (which some call the Mk2) so although the reel is quite rare those spools should be easier to find.