Any Old fishermen on here??

glockman55 · Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 5:50 pm Post subject: Any Old fishermen on here??

I have an older bait casting reel I found and can't find much info on it,, looks like it has Jaya R no 22 stamped on the side, it's heavy seems to be well

radar · Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 9:27 pm Post subject: Re: Any Old fishermen on here??

That looks remarkably like an old Penn 22 that I have hiding around the place. Could be a Japanese copy because the Penns tended to have Bakelite plastic on the outer faces of the reel. It would be late 1960s early 1970s in age.
Whatever the case it's in good nick for its age, probably hasn't seen salt water.
Interested if anyone else can shed some light.

Suzanne · Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 10:42 pm Post subject: Re: Any Old fishermen on here??

That's a dooozie, I've been cruising the web pages looking for that name on fishing tackle and only come up with nuthin. The name might actually be a model name and not a manufacturer's name, but still there should be something about it. This place welcomes inquiries, you might send an e-mail with the photos and see what's up. Bottom of the page is the contact info.

Suz

glockman55 · Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 2:50 pm Post subject: Re: Any Old fishermen on here??

Thanks, I sent pics...

Suzanne · Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 7:18 pm Post subject: Re: Any Old fishermen on here??

Let us know what you find glockman, I'm diein to know myself.

Suz

tlo7mm · Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:28 pm Post subject: Re: Any Old fishermen on here??

I have two similar reels myself, I will post pics and maybe able to shed some light on the subject once I can dig em up.

glockman55 · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 5:54 pm Post subject: Re: Any Old fishermen on here??

I never got a reply from that site Suz... So I joined a Fishing Talks Forum today, I posted pics on there, I'll keep ya'll updated..

Suzanne · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 7:02 pm Post subject: Re: Any Old fishermen on here??

Cool! That's sort of my luck too, I find something that's new (to me) and get all excited and find out the date of the web site is years ago and nobody's around now. Funny how many forums don't get much traffic. This one sure does tho. Aren't we hot! So I'm betting that thing is from Europe or maybe it's Asian. You'd think the name would be easy to find otherwise. If you search that name you get a bunch of stuff from India. Seems to be a common name there.

bracer · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 7:38 am Post subject: Re: Any Old fishermen on here??

If being 76 may mean that Im an old fisherman but I havent an anser. The book that I have did not list your casting reel.

moose2 · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 6:15 pm Post subject: Re: Any Old fishermen on here??

I have two old reels that look similar to these. Makes me think that all old reels look the same. Mine are all packed now, so can't do a better comparison. Very Happy

glockman55 · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 6:37 pm Post subject: Re: Any Old fishermen on here??

Who would have thought that you could google something and not get an answer...what's this world coming too?

Ominivision1 · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 7:36 pm Post subject: Re: Any Old fishermen on here??

That reel looks similar to my grandfathers old Bronson Commander bait cast reel, take a look at this page and it will tell you how to identify a bronson reel.

www.bronsonreelphotos....onson.html

glockman55 · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 8:03 pm Post subject: Re: Any Old fishermen on here??

I looks alot like these reels, not marked as Bronson though, but very similar..