My wife's cousin bestowed some vintage tackle on me this AM.
Three bamboo rods, none with markings, all are 3 piece, one with a broken tip. All have been rewrapped with skill somewhere between none and sophomoric. Reel seats are all down slides and aluminum. I imagine these are all postwar japanese rods, rewrapped and refinished at some point. I may try to fish one someday just for grins.
There's two fly wallets, both containing snelled flies with some evidence of having come from the Kalispell area. Both wool pages are to at least some extent moth eaten. I'm looking forward to digging into these, I gotta soft spot in my head for vintage flys. These, again, are mostly snelled with what looks to be 5 lb. test mono.
And three automatic reels including old, old line:
Clockwise from top: Martin Automatic No. 2, 1 Sears Roebuck Simpson-Sears LTD no. 324.31540, and one Shakespear Silent Tru-Art Intrinsic Automatic 1845. They're all in serviceable condition, but dirty. I'll clean 'em up and put'm on my cosmic bookshelf.
It's got some value if only as an example of the kind of tackle a postwar farmer and his 2 sons would acquire for the occasional trip back to his parent's ranch in Montana, then stash in the barn waiting for next year.
Three bamboo rods, none with markings, all are 3 piece, one with a broken tip. All have been rewrapped with skill somewhere between none and sophomoric. Reel seats are all down slides and aluminum. I imagine these are all postwar japanese rods, rewrapped and refinished at some point. I may try to fish one someday just for grins.
There's two fly wallets, both containing snelled flies with some evidence of having come from the Kalispell area. Both wool pages are to at least some extent moth eaten. I'm looking forward to digging into these, I gotta soft spot in my head for vintage flys. These, again, are mostly snelled with what looks to be 5 lb. test mono.
And three automatic reels including old, old line:
Clockwise from top: Martin Automatic No. 2, 1 Sears Roebuck Simpson-Sears LTD no. 324.31540, and one Shakespear Silent Tru-Art Intrinsic Automatic 1845. They're all in serviceable condition, but dirty. I'll clean 'em up and put'm on my cosmic bookshelf.
It's got some value if only as an example of the kind of tackle a postwar farmer and his 2 sons would acquire for the occasional trip back to his parent's ranch in Montana, then stash in the barn waiting for next year.
