A little looser than I’m used to but good stuff. If Dad will let me, I may just adopt it for trout ventures. I think he paid something like $16 for it back in the day, but I’ll have to double check.
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I don’t know where my first fly rod is ,but I still use my original surf casting rig .Fiberglass pole and a penn “greenie” 704 .I bought that sometime in the late 60′s
I still have my first fly rod, a Cortland 6/7 weight that came with a plastic reel with no real drag.