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Post 09 Jul 2017, 20:16 • #1 
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They tend to accumulate:

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Post 09 Jul 2017, 20:20 • #2 
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Oh, so that's what is meant by "Multiplier?" ;-)


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Post 09 Jul 2017, 22:09 • #3 
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Evidently.


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Post 09 Jul 2017, 23:22 • #4 
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It gets worse.....

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Post 10 Jul 2017, 05:51 • #5 
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I'm still trying to figure out if it's the cigars or the old reels that attract fish
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Post 10 Jul 2017, 06:21 • #6 
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I love collecting old reels. Though, with the amount I spent a couple years ago on my set of original Ross reels, I banished myself from the reel market for the foreseeable future. I had to get rid of a Hardy Princess and Featherweight to ease the pain, both of which I enjoyed very much. The consolation is I will fish my Petal-spooled Rosses until the day I die, or can longer cast a fly rod.


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Post 10 Jul 2017, 08:36 • #7 
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"new" reels, much moreso than rods, have very little appeal to me.
For trout or pond fishing, I just don't see how anything modern tops an old JW Young Beaudex, or Hardy Lightweight, or Orvis Lightweight, or CRI, or CFO, or Ross R series, or Pfluegher Medalist, or... you get the picture.


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Post 10 Jul 2017, 10:39 • #8 
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The vintage gear is what motivates me. I have buddies who approach it as its all about the fish, how big, how many... Don't get me wrong, catching fish is fun but for me its more about the trip, the gear, the location. Vintage gear adds to the experience of it for me. And collecting...well that is a topic my wife wants me to seek professional help with.


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Post 10 Jul 2017, 11:09 • #9 
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Your buddies may yet grow up.
The gestalt is the trip, the fish are the gravy.
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Post 10 Jul 2017, 11:34 • #10 
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Amen to that one.


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Post 11 Jul 2017, 07:25 • #11 
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Bloodhound wrote:
The vintage gear is what motivates me. I have buddies who approach it as its all about the fish, how big, how many... Don't get me wrong, catching fish is fun but for me its more about the trip, the gear, the location. Vintage gear adds to the experience of it for me. And collecting...well that is a topic my wife wants me to seek professional help with.


All well said. Bloodhound, there are numerous professionals who can help. Rick's Rods right in Denver offers great professional help, and I myself drop by for counsel now and then.


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Post 11 Jul 2017, 10:06 • #12 
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I visit Rick at Rick's Rods for "counseling", but I have to limit it, as his sessions tend to put a bite on my wallet :lol


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Post 11 Jul 2017, 10:41 • #13 
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use that - try the "cheaper than" approach
buying tackle and fishing it cheaper than psychological counseling.
And some husbands collect mistresses


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Post 12 Jul 2017, 09:23 • #14 
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Bulldog

I shared your thoughts with my wife and she agreed that fishing gear is much better than the other options...I don't get to give her grief about her collections...cooking gear, because I benefit from that :)


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Post 12 Jul 2017, 16:27 • #15 
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Just remember that the days spent fishing are not subtracted from a person's allocated days on earth. I forget if that is in the Old Testament, but it is carved on a rock by an English trout stream. The rock should be of far greater renown than Stonehenge, but I think this ancient wisdom was so well known that very few saw any need to write it down, let alone carve it in stone or put it on Facebook. It is common knowledge, streamside at least, so even the rock is not that famous. The carving doesn't really add any credibility. I heard it from about the time I was 4 or 5 and have never found a reason to doubt it. I only saw the rock in a picture on this website more than half a century later.

Anyway, tell that to your significant other. If the fishing protests continue, that tells you something.


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Post 03 Jan 2018, 13:08 • #16 
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danger? reels? reading this thread is just sharpening my appetite for another cool, old reel. another year of living dangerously....

my lust list includes: young-made orvis battenkills, two-screw hardy featherweights, and ross colorado, for starters...

what's on your list?


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Post 03 Jan 2018, 14:24 • #17 
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lloyd3 wrote:
It gets worse.....

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lloyd3, do I spy a 1594 or 5? Nice multiplication table!


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Post 07 Jan 2018, 14:58 • #18 
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Collecting is addicting........and dangerous if your spouse disapproves. I had to take a break from adding to my collection of rods and reels so I can save for new waders, wading boots and waist pack....since I seem to have worn mine out. I'll probably get back to collecting later in the year.


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Post 06 Feb 2018, 17:56 • #19 
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John: No, sadly not a 1594 or 95, both are products of Dan at OnePfoot.


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Post 06 Feb 2018, 18:05 • #20 
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Well, still really cool!


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Post 06 Feb 2018, 21:05 • #21 
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3 this week, a Berkley, Daiwa, and Martin :eek

Quite a while ago I made a preemtive strike on the home front and taped a note to the nearest rod in the closet: "At least it's not porn".


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Post 06 Feb 2018, 21:23 • #22 
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you sure about that?
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Post 06 Feb 2018, 21:42 • #23 
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my bicycle friend Tad just went through a great resolution with his wife about bicycles.
He's currently working on a Mussolini-era Umberto Dei - and will do whatever it takes to get out on this bike - in the proper condition.
https://thecabe.com/forum/threads/1940- ... ad.123801/
He travels in a truck representing his company (Caterpillar) all around the country. The free time he has in every city, he shops for antique bicycles and parts. She's at home.
When he got back last trip, she put her foot down - no more bikes - he had one in the truck.
He decided he wouldn't be able to restore it to his bottom-line perfectionism, so he parted it out and made more money on just a couple of parts than he spent.
It clicked with her, and now she's working at home learning and handling the parts ebay, and has restored his freedom to bring more bikes, to keep her going in the turning business.

He and I take a different tack - I would rather have my 1957 Raleigh functioning with new bikes while still looking the part - it doesn't have to be catalog-perfect for me. I would rather have it on modern wheels so I can use modern tires, and with my custom-designed gears so I can climb any grade in the TX hill country. I built my '57 from bare frame entirely bolt-on, without altering the original frame in any way, which meant starting with having custom hubs built.
https://thecabe.com/forum/threads/what- ... ost-839313


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Post 07 Feb 2018, 02:14 • #24 
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bulldog1935 wrote:
you sure about that?

Ssshhh, she doesn't know!


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Post 08 Feb 2018, 18:01 • #25 
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Silence can indeed be golden. Merely a venial sin.


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