In my 50 years in the fishing business in Sacramento I put new fly lines on hundreds of old automatic fly reels.
Not so much in the past 20 years but before that members of the Greatest Generation would bring in their old automatic fly reels to get a new fly lines.
I use to buy them from people who no longer needed them to recycle them to old timers who had their old automatic give up.
I have one that I saved so some day I could actually go fly fishing with it.
They were very popular for walking the banks of bass ponds too.
Here is a movie/video of some guys fishing with a fairly modern automatic fly reel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcsOqwQ15Y0
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