Does Psa slab fishing reels?

mmync

I"m only kidding about the whole slabbing thing, but I think this is pretty cool. I just found it in my parents garage. I've never heard of them before. It looks like it is pretty old. Anyone know anything about these?

rube26105

wow, thats cool, cant say i ever saw a ted fishing reel before, looks like it a pretty old package

lawnmowerman

<< <i> It looks like it is pretty old. Anyone know anything about these? >>




Yeah, put it on a pole and you can catch fish with it.

Hope this helps

milbroco

Don't know much about them but I also have one with the original box. the lid is missing though. It looks like it is from the late 1960's. If I remember correctly, Ted was an avid fresh water fisherman.
Bob

thenavarro

That's a neat piece. Look over on ebay and go through some of the auctions and you can probably pick up some more data on it. There are several listed and in the past sales. All kind of different model #'s.

I've seen some old Ty Cobb fishing stuff like that. Sears must have been big on using the athletes to promote their products.

Mike

bigfische

that is pretty cool

lawnmowerman

IchiroDeported

prob. worth $12-25 bucks.

dan8402

I have a Sears Ted Williams 12 Gauge shotgun too. I think they were mass produced and aren't worth all that much.

MeteoriteGuy

They slabbed his head...

lawnmowerman

lol Good one mark

rube26105

ha, true, if ya can slab a head,that surly ya can do a fishing reel

rbdjr1

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Ted liked to fish (Ted Williams' rods and reels were popular "in the day")

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Fishing


Ted Williams was proficient with more than just a baseball bat
07/11/2002

By DAVE STREGE
KRT newspapers


Ted Williams was a natural, getting hits when nobody else could and making catches some only dream about.

He might have been the greatest of all time. Certainly nobody would dispute his incredible credentials and induction into the Hall of Fame.

The Fishing Hall of Fame.

Everybody knows what he did with a baseball bat. Baseball will remember him as the best pure hitter of all time.

But fishing will remember him, too, for Williams was as legendary for what he did with a fishing rod as with a bat. Actually, he seemed more impressed with his talent for getting hits (also known as bites) from fish than producing hits himself.

"I belong at least in one (Hall of Fame), and that's fishing," Williams said in a 1998 phone interview on fishing.

What? The Splendid Splinter thinking of himself as a better fisherman than baseball player?

"Well, I want to tell you something and this will sum it up for you," he said. "If I had my life to live over again and I could take fishing or baseball, I'd take fishing and I'll tell you why: I don't think I would do as well in baseball if I had to do it over again. I know I'd have done as good in fishing."

He was a natural, all right. A natural-born fisherman.

The fishing bug bit Williams in his hometown of San Diego, where at 13 a neighbor took him largemouth bass fishing. Williams was hooked. "I was just carried away with the whole damn thing," he said.

Catching fish became addicting, and one sportfishing trip out of Point Loma in 1934 contributed heavily to his growing passion. Williams and his party caught 98 barracuda and gave them all away at the dock. People of the Depression were eager to take fresh fish home for dinner.

Williams also fished for yellowtail. He didn't catch many, but the few he did left an impression.

"Boy, I was really excited about how much they pulled and how fast they went," he said.

Learning to fly

Before spring training with the Boston Red Sox, Williams fished the Everglades. There he discovered the art of fly-fishing from a man who caught a 12-pound snook close to where he was fishing.

The man was using a fly rod and nailed fish after fish. Williams was stunned. He wasn't catching anything on his plugs.

"That thoroughly convinced me that that was the way to go," Williams said. "The next year, I went down there with a fly rod and I murdered them. Oh boy."

A perfectionist, Williams became as proficient in fly-fishing as a fishing guide. He even tied his own flies, a hobby that accompanied him on the road during his playing days. It beat going out and getting mobbed by the crowds.

Tarpon, bonefish and Atlantic salmon were the favorite fly-fishing targets of Williams, who wrote a book about them: "Fishing for the Big Three."

He would catch tarpon and bonefish in the Florida Keys and Atlantic salmon in the Miramichi River in New Brunswick, Canada, where he owned a fishing camp.

Curt Gowdy, former Red Sox broadcaster and close fishing friend of Williams, once wrote that "before Ted was done, he'd caught and recorded 1,000 tarpon caught on the fly. He also caught 1,000 bonefish and 1,000 Atlantic salmon on a fly. Now that's a triple crown to brag about."

There were other fish to boast about: A 1,235-pound black marlin in Peru, a 500-pound thresher shark in New Zealand, a 35-pound Atlantic salmon in Canada.

Williams claimed the marlin was the eighth-biggest fish ever caught on rod and reel. He also said he caught "close to record" tarpon and bonefish and fished for tuna and everything else.

"I fished with him a lot," Gowdy said in a phone interview from Paris, where he is vacationing with his family. "He's probably the best all-around fisherman I ever knew. He was really great."

Because of fishing, Gowdy, a crafty fly-fisher in his own right, and Williams became everlasting friends in 1951. Gowdy often featured Williams on the "American Sportsman," the popular outdoors show Gowdy produced for many years.

"He was a heckuva hunter, too," Gowdy said. "He was a good bird shooter. I went duck hunting with him a couple of times."

After retiring from baseball in 1960, Williams became better known by some in the new generation as the maker of fishing rods. He worked for Sears, endorsing its fishing gear and making public appearances.

In 1967, Edwin Pope, a writer from Miami, told his 16-year-old son he was going fishing with Ted Williams. According to Sports Illustrated, his son exclaimed, "Gee, Ted Williams. That's great. That's the guy who designs all that terrific fishing equipment for Sears!"

The temperamental Williams found this amusing.

Abrasive as shark skin, Williams could show his teeth even when it came to fishing. Once at an outdoors show, where he deftly put a fly on a man's hat with a fly cast from a good distance, he was asked, "How does it feel to be the last of the .400 hitters?"

He was said to respond, "I'm not here to talk baseball, just to answer questions about these fishing rods."

Gowdy learned early how to deal with the gruffness and incessant needling of Williams.

"All he'd do is give you hell all day, 'Oh what a lousy cast, why don't you learn how to cast?"' Gowdy said. "Bobby Doerr (Hall of Fame second baseman for the Red Sox) told me if he gives it to you, you give it to him. I did that, and he liked it."

A gambling man

Challenges and friendly wagers were part of the Williams package.

After three days in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico without catching a permit - a wily gamefish - Williams bet Gowdy $1,000 he would catch one that afternoon. Gowdy accepted, hoping to salvage the episode of the "American Sportsman" he was trying to produce.

Williams not only caught one, but several.

"Fishing was good for him," Gowdy said. "It got him away from the pressures he had. He got a lot of relaxation and enjoyment from it. I think fishing was very healthy for him."

The enjoyment of fishing was more than the catch for Williams. It was the tranquility and beauty of a salmon river or bonefish flat. It was tying flies. It was breaking in a new pair of waders, rigging up rods and reels, shooting the breeze about fishing.

"Fishing to me has been such an important part of my life," Williams said.

Williams was inducted into the National Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame in 1995 and into the Fishing Hall of Fame by the International Game Fish Association in 2000.

Gowdy, a trustee with the IGFA for 25 years, was the one who enshrined him into the Fishing Hall of Fame in Dania Beach, Fla.

"He was in a wheelchair," Gowdy recalled. "They flew him down. He was really thrilled. It was funny, all the honors he had and everything, you thought this was the greatest honor he ever had in his life."

To Williams, maybe it was.

123Slider

When I played in the Red Sox organization, I did 2 things, played baseball and fished. Everyday after the workout in spring training, my buddy and I would take off to go fish the rest of the day. All of the coaches wanted to fish with us and we became like a little guide service taking different players and coaches out for the afternoon or evening.

When "Broadway" Charlie Wagner heard about how much we liked to fish, he told us one day, "Too bad Ted isn't still around here, he'd sure love to go out with you guys."

Maybe the biggest compliment I ever got from the Sox

I always wondered what that would have been like. Ted was a world class fly fisherman among other things, and yes the mass produced all kinds of things from outboard motors to lures and rod/reel combos, shotguns and anything else outdoors related you could think of.

TheHun

I have a Ted Williams fishing tackle box. I believe he had a contract to endorse sporting goods from late 1959 until about 1964.

skilow

I actually use a set of Ted Williams freeweights. Ted was the spokeman for many massproduced Sears items.