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 maruoff |
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Posts: 713 08/09/2007 01:32 |
Any idea which reels the Young family and/or Bob Summers personally used on their rods?
Any mention of this somewhere?
As it is obvious that Young was weight-concerned with his rods it would be interesting to hear if this
applied to reels too.
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Posts: 1362 08/09/2007 01:56 Moderatus Muscae |
In his catalogs, Young sometimes recommended smaller reels than I might think appropriate for a given rod model. I guess that since silk lines are generally of
smaller diameters than modern fly lines, it was probably possible to get enough silk fly line on a smaller reel. Here are Young's reel recommendations for
trout rods from the circa 1954-55 catalog:
Midge: first choice, Hardy St. George, Jr.; otherwise, "the smallest Uniqua or the 1492 Medalist." Driggs: "the 3" Hardys, 3" Pridex or Beaudex, and 1492 Medalist." Perfectionist: "The hardy L.R.H. Lightweight reel balances perfectly, as will the St. George Jr." Martha Marie: "same as for the Driggs..." Standard Dry: "1494 Medalist or any of the 3" Eng. makes..." Para 15: "1494 or any of the better 3" makes..." Boat Rod: "1495 or the larger automatics" Texan: "...Hardy, Pridex or Beaudex 3-1/4. (If backing for long running fish is needed the wider spool models are better, or the Medalist 1495)..." Para 16: "Medalist 1494 for average waters where lots of backing is not required. St. George 3" - Pridex 3"..." Fly lines offered in the catalog included Cortland 333 DT and "rocket" taper, Gladding's Bubblett Lines (15 yards of DT fly line backed with 25 yds. of monobraid backing), and silk lines by Cortland, Crandal American, Gladding and King Eider. The only reel I have seen that I know belonged to Paul Young was a baitcasting reel.
Quashnet's Paul H. Young Rod Database has photos and descriptions of 290 PHY Co. rods, plus catalogs, accessories,
etc. Thank you to all who continue to send me PHY rod photos and info.
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Posts: 31 08/09/2007 06:03 |
For a couple years in the early 1980s a friend of mine and I had a room next to Martha Marie Young at Gates' Lodge on the AuSable in Michigan. At that time
she was fishing a Driggs with a Hardy LRH Lightweight.
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Posts: 25 08/14/2007 00:31 |
About 10 years back I was at Bob Summers shop to lawn cast/order a rod from him. all his test rods were sporting Hardy lightweight series reels. I traded in a Hardy Husky with silent cork drag that he was tickled to get because he was going to the Brooks river in Alaska the following week. Said he had heard that a screaming reel on the Brooks was a dinner gong for the brown bears. (I ended up ordering an 856). Based on earlier reading, Martha Marie Young also used the small uniqua reel. Slomo |
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