TULSA, Okla. -- The manufacturing plant that provided generations of Americans with their first fishing reels shut down Friday after 52 years because the company has shifted production to Asia.

One of hundreds of antique Zebco reels owned by Dick Braun on display at the Old Time Reel Collectors Association national convention in Tulsa on Thursday. KELLY BOSTIAN/Tulsa World ...

Roy Hull (left) and his brother Jerry Hull hold some of the Zebco items they recently donated to the Tulsa Historical Society. Their father, R.D. Hull, invented the closed-case fishing reel, produced ...