What are your Top 5 reels?
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Re: What are your Top 5 reels?
#21I decided I really can't do this - I have to add these more to my top five
JLH Ultralite
Golden Prince
Thistle
Young pattern 2a
Ocean Prince
JLH Ultralite
Golden Prince
Thistle
Young pattern 2a
Ocean Prince
Re: What are your Top 5 reels?
#22Abercrombie + Fitch (Hardy) 'Flyweight' Silent Check
Hardy 'Featherweight'
Farlow's (JW Young) 'Farlight' 3-1/3"
Meisselbach-Catucci 'Symploreel' 370W
Orvis (JW Young) 'Lightweight W'
Hardy 'Featherweight'
Farlow's (JW Young) 'Farlight' 3-1/3"
Meisselbach-Catucci 'Symploreel' 370W
Orvis (JW Young) 'Lightweight W'
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Re: What are your Top 5 reels?
#23Most used:
Hardy LRH
Hardy 3" St George
Hardy Featherweight
Heddon Imperial 125A
Hardy Perfect 3-1/8"
Hardy LRH
Hardy 3" St George
Hardy Featherweight
Heddon Imperial 125A
Hardy Perfect 3-1/8"
Re: What are your Top 5 reels?
#24Hmmmmm......
Difficult to pick out a top 5.
These are my top 5 user reels this season.
Difficult to pick out a top 5.
These are my top 5 user reels this season.
Each one is a work horse
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Re: What are your Top 5 reels?
#26Going through my trout fishing trips, I found that these were the reels I used the most from 2011 to 2015:
1. Orvis CFO III
2. Hardy Marquis 4
3. Pflueger Medalist 1492 and J.W. Young & Sons Beaudex 3"
4. Pflueger Medalist 1494
5. Hardy Prince 5/6
That's actually six reels, but who's counting .
Kenneth
1. Orvis CFO III
2. Hardy Marquis 4
3. Pflueger Medalist 1492 and J.W. Young & Sons Beaudex 3"
4. Pflueger Medalist 1494
5. Hardy Prince 5/6
That's actually six reels, but who's counting .
Kenneth
Re: What are your Top 5 reels?
#27Paul Hermann Trout
Winston Perfect
Hatch Finatic
Peerless 2A
Bauer McKenzie Light
Winston Perfect
Hatch Finatic
Peerless 2A
Bauer McKenzie Light
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Re: What are your Top 5 reels?
#28* D. L. Robichaud Trout 2 3/4" and 3"
* Peerless 1 1/2
* Hardy Perfect (pre-War) 2 7/8" and 3 1/8"
* Orvis CFO (click & pawl) II, III, IV and V
* 3" Hardy St. George (3-screw latch)
Scott
* Peerless 1 1/2
* Hardy Perfect (pre-War) 2 7/8" and 3 1/8"
* Orvis CFO (click & pawl) II, III, IV and V
* 3" Hardy St. George (3-screw latch)
Scott
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Re: What are your Top 5 reels?
#29My top 5 include:
- Wolfhard Schulz Peerless (Finest reel I have ever held)
Hardy St. George
Chris Henshaw St George
Maurice Noel TT150
Ted Godfrey Multiplier
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Re: What are your Top 5 reels?
#30Peerless 2A
Hardy Bougle Mk IV
Ross San Miguel 1
Ross Evo
Abel 5N
Added a NOEL 150, Godfrey Paradigm 30th Anniversary Ausable and a Ross San Miguel 2 over the past 18 months which should displace a couple of the above.
Hardy Bougle Mk IV
Ross San Miguel 1
Ross Evo
Abel 5N
Added a NOEL 150, Godfrey Paradigm 30th Anniversary Ausable and a Ross San Miguel 2 over the past 18 months which should displace a couple of the above.
Re: What are your Top 5 reels?
#31What I grabbed for this year from L to R - 1492 (WF4), 1492 (WF3), CFO III (WF5), 1394 (DT5) and St. George (WF5)
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Re: What are your Top 5 reels?
#32Hardy 3 screw latch St. George Jr.
Hardy Telephone latch 2 5/8 inch Uniqua
Hardy 3 inch Bougle
Hardy 3 1/4 inch wide drum Perfect
Hardy 3 3/4 Inch Hiluminum St. George
I still can't get photobucket to work or I would add pictures. Anyone interested in seeing pictures, pm me your e-mail address.
Hardy Telephone latch 2 5/8 inch Uniqua
Hardy 3 inch Bougle
Hardy 3 1/4 inch wide drum Perfect
Hardy 3 3/4 Inch Hiluminum St. George
I still can't get photobucket to work or I would add pictures. Anyone interested in seeing pictures, pm me your e-mail address.
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Re: What are your Top 5 reels?
#33If the question refers to the mysterious 'S', I'd be interested, too...have by now 3 reels (two Salmon Perfects, 1 St George) with that stamp, all of them 1920-ish....Flykuni3 wrote:
Quash, anyone, this is stamped in my 3" St. George, can you identify?
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Re: What are your Top 5 reels?
#341. Hardy St. George 3 ", 2. Orvis CFO III, 3. Medalist 1494, 4. Wide Baby Bogdan, 5. Hardy Perfect,
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Re: What are your Top 5 reels?
#35I had a similar mark in my 1917 3-3/8" mid-arbor St. George (ivorine handle)
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Re: What are your Top 5 reels?
#36In most used order my favorites are,
- Hardy St.george 3 3/8"
- Orvis CFO IV
- Hardy LRH
- Hardy St.george 3"
- Hardy Perfect (3 3/8 or 3 1/8)
Jukka
- Hardy St.george 3 3/8"
- Orvis CFO IV
- Hardy LRH
- Hardy St.george 3"
- Hardy Perfect (3 3/8 or 3 1/8)
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Re: What are your Top 5 reels?
#37Well it took me awhile, but I finally figured out Photobucket. Here are some pictures of my 5 favorites.
Hardy 3 screw latch St. George Jr.
Hardy Telephone latch 2 5/8 inch Uniqua
Hardy 3 inch Bougle
Hardy 3 1/4 inch wide drum Perfect
Hardy 3 3/4 Inch Hiduminum St. George
Hardy 3 screw latch St. George Jr.
Hardy Telephone latch 2 5/8 inch Uniqua
Hardy 3 inch Bougle
Hardy 3 1/4 inch wide drum Perfect
Hardy 3 3/4 Inch Hiduminum St. George
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Re: What are your Top 5 reels?
#38Wow, quite a luxury selection for regular use...great to see that these valuable antiques still get some action...
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Re: What are your Top 5 reels?
#39While some of you might disagree, I believe these reels were made to fish with not to be enclosed in a glass cabinet.
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Re: What are your Top 5 reels?
#40well, the glass cabinet is great when you're not fishing them
they can dry, they don't get dust, and they look nice
they can dry, they don't get dust, and they look nice