My first UL was a 5’ browning Silaflex rod and a Diawa mini mite reel, gold in color. 1/32 jigs and whatever curl tails I could find did the trick, and that’s not to forget the Evans Shyster in-line spinner. The box could have fit in my pocket. Wore the gears out in the reel so bad that it would bind fighting a small fish. Showed it to Tim Stallings, TJ’s Dad that owned a local tackle shop and would clean and repair reels. He fooled with it a minute and handed it back to me and said “son, you’ve gotten all there is to get out of that one”. I left it with him for the parts. I’ve had one ever since and that was in the late 70’s. Truly an addiction but one I’m happy to talk about.

It was good to read of the history of my addiction, I’ve known for a long time that I wasn’t alone with it.