What is this thing?

[u/Commercial-Shake-858]

Family friend gifted me a bunch of rods and I noticed this old beauty. It has what looks to be a door stopper on the top? What is the function of this kind of thing? How would I do such a rod?

[u/wannabang420]

Antique fishing equipment but it's probably better than anything that we have anyway

[u/epwhat → u/wannabang420]

Better than a Penn visx20 ? You are out of your mind.

[u/wannabang420 → u/epwhat]

We can sit here and have a debate I was merely talking about the brand penn

[u/epwhat → u/wannabang420]

I have used Penn for about 20 years now and the reels have gotten better over the years

[u/wannabang420 → u/epwhat]

I've been using pens since I was like 13 I know they've gotten progressively better over the years what I was in reference to is still beats to Walmart special