Posted on July 15 2015
Written by: Peter Nardini, American Museum of Fly Fishing
This reel would still look great on the water today.
Photos by Sara Wilcox
Editor's note: The American Museum of Fly Fishing is located right next to the Orvis Flagship store in Manchester, Vermont. The folks from the museum will be sharing many of the cool items from their collection in an ongoing series called "Museum Pieces." You can take a little virtual walk through part of the museum at the bottom of this post.
Many older trout reels are surprisingly small, built to hold thin diameter silk lines. Trout lines were often shorter than they are today because shooting the line for distance was not a common. . .
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