[Paul R.]

Well, it catches fish!

I just want to know more about it. I'm not a collector, but fishing is a bit of a hobby for me, as well as it puts food on the table.

The history is sometimes interesting too. How many people know that "Zebco", a major brand of fishing gear, came out of the "Zero Hour Bomb Company"?

From Brave Search:

Zebco inadvertently caused a security scare at the White House in 1956 when a package labeled "Zero Hour Bomb Company"—the company's original name—was sent to President Dwight D. Eisenhower. White House security officials, seeing the ominous name, submerged the package in water and summoned the bomb squad, fearing it was an explosive device. (This prompted the company to come up with a new name.)

[Governor Dinwiddie]

I think my first fishing rig was a Zebco bait casting kit. Did not know about
the "bomb company". Wow. Can't make this stuff up!

[Inyo-Mono]

Zebco inadvertently caused a security scare at the White House in 1956 when a package labeled "Zero Hour Bomb Company"—the company's original name—was sent to President Dwight D. Eisenhower. White House security officials, seeing the ominous name, submerged the package in water and summoned the bomb squad, fearing it was an explosive device. (This prompted the company to come up with a new name.)

I didn't know that either! I gave a Zebco rod and reel combo to my daughter back in the '90s!

[caver]

I did not know that about Zebco. I have a number of Zebco reels. My father in law was a big fisherman. He had several hundred rods. He also collected the older Johnson reels, Century and Citation. He had near 100 of them.