If a Black Prince was your first reel, what was your second?

[Mitch300]

For those of us whose first reel was a Black Prince, what was your second reel?
I would be very interested in seeing how many TFF members went with:
i) a second Black Prince;
ii) a different Intrepid reel; or
iii) a reel made by anyone but Intrepid.

For me, it was iii) a Shakespeare 2200 (with a dodgy bale arm trip), swiftly replaced by a Mitchell 308.

G. B.

[Wanderer]

I can't remember what it was called, but the reel was given to me by a friend of my father's and it came from a cigarette coupon catalogue if my memory serves me right.
Don't think it lasted very long.......

Unlike the "Black Prince", which I still have amongst my collection of Old That / Junk....

Didn't get into Mitchell's until much later.

[Coral Maestro]

I think it was a dark brown Daiwa, model number unknown. It was a major improvement over the BP and I enjoyed using it. Eventually it suffered from a stripped gear due to boyhood abuse.

[Bayleaf]

My first was a TruSpin in grey (managed to buy a mint one recently) then a Regent, used for years. I still use a pair of Elites along with some Abu Cardinal 40s and a 501.

[Santiago]

My first reel was a Boys centrepin . My second was a Black Prince. My third was a Mitchell 324. My worse reel ever was the Black Prince.

[Wallys-Cast]

Intrepid Regent or Envoy, cant remember now.

Wal.

[Fredline]

My first was an Interpid Monarch 66 in 1967 in that wonderful salmon pink colour. But due the inevitable line groove caused by casting every 5 minutes, youthful impatience, it had to go. I bought an Ambidex Match @ £6 15s, a fortune when you consider I was earning £1 2s from my paper round. My nans Marchall Ward catalogue came to the rescue, payment over 6 months. I still have the reel but it has not been used for a while. I did purchase a mint Monarch a few years ago purely for nostalgic purposes.

[Tony.J.Newman]

Intrepid Prince Regent for my follow on reel, then 2 Mitchell 324’s.

[John Milford]

My first reel was a pink K. P. Morrit's TruSpin. Luckily, I skipped the Black Prince (or, luckier still, a Boy'O) and made the quantum leap to a Prince Regent, once my trusty TruSpin developed the dreaded bail groove.

Both of the above were partnered by a long-lost 10' rod of two black-laquered whole cane sections and a green solid glass tip. It was probably dreadful, but nevertheless my most treasured childood possession.

The first reel I bought myself was a brown Daiwa (possibly of the same forgotten nomenclature as Coral Maestro's, although 7300 rings a distant bell?).

My dalliance with Intrepids was not entirely over though. I was immensely proud of my subsequent Super Twin.

[Tony.J.Newman]

John, I too had a two piece whole cane black painted fibreglass tip rod, my glass was white though.
Whippings were bright red.