Fly Fishing Reels

Following my series of classic fly reel pictures i like. After the famous ABU Delta, here is another great ABU fly fishing reel:

The ABU Record Standard

The Record Standard was manufactured by ABU under the brand of ABU and Pebco (Model 5). They were similiar in design and specifications and were build in Sweden from 1942 to 1965. They had a capacity of 100 yards of backing under the flyline.

Henschel Millennium Edition

Short introduction: Ian, a reader of this blog dropped me a mail that he wants to sell two special fly reels, interesting for collectors.

This is the first one:

Pictures of the fly fishing reel Millennium manufactured by Henschel.



It was manufactured to commemorate the millennium and was limited to 100 pieces.
As you can see this is number 100 and is inscribed with a name.

The mayfly hatch has just begun at our little river, and dry fly fishing is fun again.
Here is a photo of a not so huge (about 14") brownie i caught this evening.
Please excuse the poor quality, but the photo was taken with a phone.

Brown trout

I just found an awesome auction on ebay (click here), where a Thomas and Thomas fly fishing rod and a Stanley Bogdan Fly Fishing reel are for sale for nearly 15.000 bucks. Is it worth the money? I don't know, but i would love to have them .

Being in Danmark lately, i used the opportunity to visit the Danish Fly Festival in Kolding.
A really familiar gathering with an exhibition hall, a casting hall and an outdoor casting area.

Inside the building there were also several rooms for flytiers and instruction  courses.

Determinig the amount of backing for an unfamiliar reel is always a problem.
You must have enough reserve when you catch a big one, but must not overfill the spool to avoid balling you line.

The best way for finding out how much backing fits to your reel i know of is the following: