My first year fishing here in Northern Wisconsin I had a Shakespeare spincast reel...That was 1958 and I can still remember the twisted and broken lines...To be fair it wasn't all the reel's fault...Since I already knew everything at the age of 10 I didn't bother trying to learn how to use it correctly...By the next summer I had a new Pflueger Akron Freespool bait caster and after a few million backlashes I learned I didn't actually know everything quite yet...Now I use Gladding and Cortland Dacron braided line (the old school stuff) on all my Ambassadeur casting reels and antiquey ones from Pflueger, Langley, Abu, Coxe, Bronson, Shakespeare, Heddon, etc... :mrgreen: