Originally Posted by Ray Settanta
My son never had any good luck with those reels that had the button. The line always kept getting snarled. So I bought him a cheap (around $25 at the time) Mitchell spinning reel when he was 8 years old and he learned to use it fairly quickly. He still has it today 11 years later.


this is what i was thinking. he's a pretty sharp kid so i think he will get it. just didn't want to task his mom with teaching him. i'm thinking he will most likely end up teaching her.



JYD #82 yup...