>>1097642If you've got old gear, just use that until either it breaks or you know you're going to fish a lot again and really do want to spend the cash to upgrade to better gear. Just clean, re-oil and regrease your old stuff and it will work great.
So to that end, a small bottle of reel oil, a tube of reel grease, a spool or two of fresh fishing line and a couple of lures that either you know to work or stuff that catches your eye.
>>1097535Can't. You done good.
The drag will be shot and most of the steel bits will be rusty, but should be good after a thorough scrubbing and lube.
Take it all the way down and hose down the insides with WD40 to get the water out (the WD in the name stands for "Water displacer").
After that, get a bunch of cheap toothbrushes, along with one thing each of reel oil and reel grease from walmart, find a schematic of the reel online and start to clean all the shit out. Old grease needs to go, old line ditto, and any dirt or algae that's gotten in there needs to be scrubbed out with the cheap toothbrush.
Like I said, the drag parts are probably toast. You'll need to spend $10 or so to get a new set of drag plates; refer to the part numbers on the schematic and order a full set's worth of bits (or a full drag parts kit if they have it for your reel) from an online parts warehouse place, along with any other bits that might be broken, or that you break along the way.
When the reel is clean and dry, (sparingly) grease the gears, line guide worm, top line guide track, free spool actuator bits and anything that needs to slide or where you want the lubricant to stay put. Sparingly oil the reel spindles, handle knob(s), handle stem, worm track and anything that needs to move quickly.
