Nicest looking reel

[GEK79]

SPEYCO 4" SKAGIT BRASS FACE PLATE WIND FLY REEL

Speyco fly reels your online source of custom classic style click and pawl spey reels, salmon reels, and trout reels

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Ihave one of their 4" in Purple and black tomatch mt sks shrimps!

Fabulous..

 

[Mies]

You're right Mike - common as muck down here in the Sticks.

I like a plain looking reel - Danielson F3W Black

https://danielsson-flyreels.se/en/f3w-series

None of those Fancy Dan reels for me - they're for wannabe Dublin Yuppies.

Did you watch my teams brilliant performance at the weekend - Awsome .

I have that very same reel. Love it. I use Danielsson reels for pretty much all my fishing. The Dryfly, the older LW4-7 and the F3W. The LH Design is a bit of wishful thinking. Just love the craftmanship.
I have more reels than I'll ever need and then some.

Yeah, I was delighted for you lads. Great to see the Cats being put back in their box.
Limerick will be a tough challenge but it's all there for the taking. Best of luck to you

 

[easker1]

Rovers reels are nice but I like the Dormisch Absi , easker1

 

[Mrtrout]

Rovers reels are nice but I like the Dormisch Absi , easker1

Nice design Derek but not the finest design mechanically the spool was prone to warp getting them off the hub.
I always liked the Backwinder myself, pity they stopped making them.

 

[sean freeman]

I saw a backwinder somewhere lately for around £600, can’t remember where! I’m planning on buying an Eden cane though and want something classic for it, some of the L.H. Design reels look like they’d fit the bill.
As an unapologetic brookie fan though.. my SDF!

 

[sean freeman]

BACKWINDER 3 1/2″ #5/6 TROUT FLY REEL – Vintage Fishing Tackle

vintagefishingtackle.co.uk

Here it is, nice but not £700 nice.

 

[Mrtrout]

I saw a backwinder somewhere lately for around £600, can’t remember where! I’m planning on buying an Eden cane though and want something classic for it, some of the L.H. Design reels look like they’d fit the bill.
As an unapologetic brookie fan though.. my SDF!
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I had a new in the box Backwinder in silver, I sold it on eBay for £225!!
Wish I’d kept it now.
S.

 

[Hardrar]

Don’t think I have one- I have two very early Abels, a baby big game 0 first week of production and a TR 1 the same, love both. An Ari 2 but the Remco are nice, I have a Kaplun built Hardy Marksman in the Matt finish bearings are still silky smooth, but have ceramic sealed replacements.
Kaplun Highlanders are stunning. early Loop karpens are nice, have a Loop 2 produced in the first week of production.
I like all the original Vosseler DC and RC reels

 

[Mrtrout]

Don’t think I have one- I have two very early Abels, a baby big game 0 first week of production and a TR 1 the same, love both. An Ari 2 but the Remco are nice, I have a Kaplun built Hardy Marksman in the Matt finish bearings are still silky smooth, but have ceramic sealed replacements.
Kaplun Highlanders are stunning. early Loop karpens are nice, have a Loop 2 produced in the first week of production.
I like all the original Vosseler DC and RC reelsView attachment 33066

Ive just got hold of another new RC2 from eBay last week, due tomorrow I hope, I’m going to try again to like it, they are pretty.
It was on all week no bids and I got it at starting price when I bid in the last ten seconds? I was very surprised.
S.

 

[Hardrar]

Ive just got hold of another new RC2 from eBay last week, due tomorrow I hope, I’m going to try again to like it, they are pretty.
It was on all week no bids and I got it at starting price when I bid in the last ten seconds? I was very surprised.
S.

I watched it and nearly bid, but want a black one really. They use a really thick waterproof grease, that can make the spindles and ball detents stiff, degrease them and use a light silicone grease or oil! Much smoother!
Kapluns

 

[Hardrar]

Ive just got hold of another new RC2 from eBay last week, due tomorrow I hope, I’m going to try again to like it, they are pretty.
It was on all week no bids and I got it at starting price when I bid in the last ten seconds? I was very surprised.
S.

Did you see the Barrio one too?

 

[sean freeman]

I spotted the barrio one and was tempted to make a bid, ended up buying a Danielsson F3W in the end.

 

[Mrtrout]

Did you see the Barrio one too?

I did but I just wanted the RC2.
S.

 

[Mrtrout]

I watched it and nearly bid, but want a black one really. They use a really thick waterproof grease, that can make the spindles and ball detents stiff, degrease them and use a light silicone grease or oil! Much smoother!
Kapluns
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Ill try that, I just use one of the three spring detents to stop over run.
Im sure the one I had a few years ago was much better, perhaps they had changed the grease.?
S.

 

[Hardrar]

Ill try that, I just use one of the three spring detents to stop over run.
Im sure the one I had a few years ago was much better, perhaps they had changed the grease.?
S.

They use the same waterproof grease in the DC series too and I bought an ex shop DC 2 with spare spool and cases still boxed and it was so stiff on retrieve I thought it had seized, but the grease was as thick as tar. Flushed it all away and re lubed with some light silicone ptfe all temperature grease for auto brake use and it runs so sweet and freely now. It will be on the spindle too!

 

[GEK79]

I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder but what reels do we think are the nicest to look at?

ive just ordered a guideline fario which i think are lovely, recently looked at the hardy mtx-s which i thought was a beauty also.

so lets here the reels we are swooning over?

I've xdound something that's cheap yet somewhat very pretty.. And within my price range.

A BOXED OLD SHOP STOCK SHAKESPEARE SUMMIT 2686 000 3 1/2" TROUT FLY REEL + SPOOL | eBay

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[pati]

Don’t get me started on classic or bench style, but for modern/futuristic style this is one of my favourite:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ea/14/a6/ea14a6d05c754a0297cb3f380efd935f.jpg

https://www.flyfishing-and-flytying.co.uk/reviews/view/dormisch-absi_r2_reel/

 

[PaulD]

Some years ago I used this image as my Avatar on the forum . . .

It's a cropped image from a grayling dorsal, a fish that I caught from the Sava in Slovenia. Toby Merrigan, before he set up Funky Fly Tying, liked the image and asked if he could use it. He did and had a small number of Abel 3Ns annodised with a section from the photo. I have one . . .

 

[GEK79]

Don’t get me started on classic or bench style, but for modern/futuristic style this is one of my favourite:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ea/14/a6/ea14a6d05c754a0297cb3f380efd935f.jpg

https://www.flyfishing-and-flytying.co.uk/reviews/view/dormisch-absi_r2_reel/

Its a strange looking reel.. I'm sure not everyone's cup of tea but I like the difference...

 

[shortcircuit]

Did you watch my teams brilliant performance at the weekend - Awsome .

All ye needed was a Tipp man to sort ye out and now ye are flying!

I hope ye beat Limerick, I have an inexplicable dislike for them, maybe because every second handpass they give is a throw. Or because they are annoyingly talented