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We have had threads about rifles and everything shooting. How about your fly fishing equipment. I like the elegance and simplicity of Abel reels, not to mention they are made in America...
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I have more fly reels around here but these are my favorites.
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Like you I love my Winston rods but I built my own on their blanks. Here is a 9' 4/5 line I built back in the days
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I have more fly reels around here but these are my favorites. Hardy makes a decent reel or two...
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Im usually pretty good on my ipad but dang if I can figure out how to post a pic on this site. I follow the simple instructions but my image gallery never posts. Nice reels men.
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Not all of them but the majority. Still love the old Lamson from the late 80s and early 90s and their silent retrieve and light click drag
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Well, if we want to go with beer and reels.
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Left to Right: Abel Classic trout spey goes on T&T DNA 11.5' 4 weight trout spey Abel Vaya 5/6 goes on T&T Contact 2 11'2" 3 weight euro nymph Abel TR 4/5 Native Brook Trout goes on Scott G Series 8'8" 4 weight dry fly rod Abel TR 1 Classic Brook Trout goes on Scott F2 6'6" 3 weight fiberglass Ross Colorado 4/5 goes on Scott G Series 8'8" 5 weight my wife's set up Ross Colorado LT 4/5 goes on Scott G2 8'4" 2 weight beaver pond rod Ross Evolution R 7/8 that goes on 2 different rods. Part time on a Scott Centric 9' 6 weight and part time on a T&T Exocett SS 250 grain streamer rod.
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What is this spiny thing?
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I think it’s a striped Burr fish. But to be truthful I don’t know. It is a weird one for sure.
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Well, if we want to go with beer and reels. Ah, 'twas a good day a-stream that day, Pugs. That's a section of Pennsylvania's Big Spring Creek, a renowned limestone creek. That stretch was known as The Blue Hole way back in the day, and was where Charlie Fox took a state record Brown immediately post-war. I was blessed to have fished it damned near every weekend from 1988-1990 - when it was still a place of enchantment. Now the PA Fish Commission has seen fit to have wrecked it in an effort to "restore" it to something it never really was.
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My most-used reels. Top row, L-R: 70's-vintage Hardy Marquis #5, 60's-vintage Orvis Flyweight (made by J.W.Young, England), 40's-vintage Weber (a kinda clunky reel but it was my Dad's so I keep it around for nostalgic reasons, and fish it occasionally for the same reason). Bottom row, L-R: Bill Ballan Light Trout, Hardy Perfect 2 7/8" (probably gets the most use).
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Where are all your "automatics"? I bet you guys have only cars with 3 speeds on the column or five on the floor, wheelguns, and single shot rifles and shotguns! Just so sadly 19th Century....
Actually I only had one "automatic" fly reel back when they were sort of popular, I think it was a "Martin" make. It sucked up the slack line when I didn't want it to, and didn't when I did! In short it sucked. So I went back to one biggish Pflueger "Medalist" and one tiny one and that's where I've been for MANY decades of popper and hopper ploppin'! Not much of a fly fisherman, but I sure respect the skill. Unlike golf.
And what IS that "spiny thing"! Looks like Hell and perhaps is something that came from there....
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Abel TR2 On Tom Morgan Rodsmiths 5 weight...
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Heres my crew. I am mostly saltwater only one freshwater 5 wt. You boys dont tease me about my pink Ross reel. My girlfriend picked it out for herself. Thanks Cheesy forvthe posting help.
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