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More old stuff - Dryrod - 04-16-2007
[center][font "Poor Richard"][green][size 3][cool]While looking to identify my father's old salt water reel someone suggested that it might be a Mitchell Garcia. Although the company is no longer in business I did find this old ad on line. Looks a lot like the old auto reel that I posted the other day.[/size][/green][/font]
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Re: [Dryrod] More old stuff - flygoddess - 04-17-2007
Nice. I like the different colored rods!
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Re: [flygoddess] More old stuff - Dryrod - 04-17-2007
[center][font "Poor Richard"][green][size 3][cool]Did you notice the price of these rods?[/size][/green][/font][/center] [center]
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Re: [Dryrod] More old stuff - Saberfish - 04-17-2007
[black][size 3]Did you happen to notice the line designations shown in the add? If they mean anything to you, you are an old timer.[/size][/black]
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[size 3]I think that the current line weights were defined when the industry got together and standardized them. I believe that was in about the early 1960's.[/size]
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Re: [Saberfish] More old stuff - flygoddess - 04-17-2007
[#bf0060]And all lines were either Silk or Level Taper. The industry answered a lot of questions, but I am not sure it is any easier now.[/#bf0060]
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Re: [Saberfish] More old stuff - LlindeX - 09-13-2007
Well, I must be qualified as an Old Timer then. Heck, not only do I remember the line/rod designations, I remember that same ad in my Field & Stream magazines!
Regards, & Good Fishin'
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Re: [Dryrod] More old stuff - macfly55 - 09-13-2007
a long time ago there was a discussion about automatic reels of bygone days... at that time I said I remember as a kid playing with a reel at my grandparents house. It had a green heavy braided line. I remember playing with it to the point all the line went inside the reel and I could not get it back out. My grandma was pissed I did that. She had told me several times not to play with it but I did anyway.
...the automatic reel in this ad looks to be identical to the one I remember as a kid..
...hmmmmmmm now I really do feel old.. [sly]
MacFly
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Re: [macfly55] More old stuff - Dryrod - 09-14-2007
[#005000][cool]Hi Macfly55 - here is my post of last April showing a pix of an auto fly reel. Looks familiar?[/#005000]
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Re: [Dryrod] More old stuff - macfly55 - 09-14-2007
....that be it DR... grandmas was either faded black or dark grey... main things I remember are the line and getting into trouble with grandma.. which did not happen very often... [
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