10 MORE Old Fishing Reels in Your Tackle Box Worth a Fortune!(Most People Don't Know They Have Them)

THE BARN FIND BIBLE — the maker marks, the stamps, the dating rules and the real sold prices, all in one place: Link In Liked Comment! A lot of you went out and opened the tackle box after the last reel video, and plenty of you asked what happens when the name on the foot isn't one I covered. So here are ten more. Forty years of picking barns and estate auctions across the Midwest, and the reels are still the thing people hand over for twenty dollars without ever looking closely. This time we go through the everyday reels people wrongly assume are treasure, Pflueger Medalist fly reels, Shakespeare level winds, the store brand reels that were built by real factories, Meisselbach, J. A. Coxe, the early spinning reels, the early Orvis trout reels, the big game and salmon tier, and the American maker whose reels bring more than most people's boats. Here is the part almost nobody understands. With reels, the value is decided by who actually BUILT it, not by whose name is on the foot. The big catalogue houses and department stores put their own badges on reels made in real factories, and small makers built for other people's brands. The same reel can carry three different names and three different prices, so the tells are in the construction and the patent marks. I will also give you the honest odds, because most reels in a tackle box are ten to forty dollar reels that caught a lot of fish and owe nobody an apology. And I will tell you what kills the value before a reel ever reaches a buyer. Before you let somebody take the whole tackle box for twenty dollars, open it and read the reels. Drop a comment telling me what you found and where you're watching from. I read and answer every single one.