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Nice collection. Thanks for sharing.
Here is a few i scrounged off my iphone.

Great pics,vintage penn spinning reels are hard to come by in my area.Penn casting reels are common as they use them for Lake Michigan trout and salmon.Even the wore out ones are pricey.Thinking of breaking out the Zebco Cardinals .They were a thing for a while but no one seems to want them .They are smooth little reels and look good on glass old rods.BD what is the smallest vintage penn spinning reel?

Best match I found on my 716 is this Fispo rod which may be a Harnell blank.


The 440 Ottomatic in the masthead photo doesn't go fishing - it's too valuable in its box.

The 410 with aftermarket barstock spool is really nice to fish.

Since we're showing perfect matches, best match for my H-I Star is Luxor A - this is a great rod and killer combo.


Hardy Exalta and Epoxite Registered, match made in glass heaven.
The Exalta knee flips on a square boss, and I flipped around the Phillipson patent seat to get this result.


a rod too tippy to want to fish, but it looks damn good, Heddon Pal Standard and Pflueger Skilkast.

The 716 is the smallest Penn, but I believe the 714 is the exact same size.

Why can't I add pictures in "Add Reply" ?

Nice Fred i loved those gréen. Johnson reels Remember buying one with my own money when on vacation as a kid.BD thanks for the info.I am looking for one around the same size as a 308.I have a UL St Croix.A 5 foot Fenwick and a couple UL wonderods.

Steel and cane were really the only good bass rod tapers made postwar until about the '70s, with the exceptions of Harnell, and '60s Conolon, Heddon, and Phillipson Bass Tamer,
The '70s gave us Fenglas Lunkerstik and Lew's, which changed everyone's definitions of bass rods.
The AF&H TrueTemper square-section steel rods are exceptional bass rods.

Montague Flash cane (also Heddon cane)

The problem with most glass casting rods, they were just too tippy to be good bass rods.
They work better for spincast, or finesse fishing light weights with a Langley Lakecast or Shakespeare Tournament


Even into the '70s, I bought an ebay Browning to sample, model 910, 6' 2-pc, rated 6-lb test min, 1/4-oz min.
It really belonged with a spincast reel, and I gave it to my friend Tony to match with his Abu 170 (improved with a rebuild and 6-lb YoZuri hybrid line)
The combo made a great light jig rod for Tony to throw at winter put-and-take trout ponds. It cast 1/16 oz better than it cast 1/4 oz.

there you go

I really like the 2200, it is one of my favorites, I have a dozen or so. HAHA I put some nanofil on one and fished ALL day, never had to look down at the reel to see what was going on, it really worked flawlessly. But this reel I had gone over very well, polished the drag stack(felt/stainless) used TSI 321 oil and good grease, the only complaint I have is you cannot flip bail manually, but you just breathe on it with the handle and it snaps back quick.

Wow. This turned out to be a great thread and I am humbled. Thanks for sharing!