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Going Green
Post 11 Nov 2019, 22:36 • #1 
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First fish (green fish) on my green wonderod spincasting outfit with green reel, green line and green lure and green sweater I guess. All the green wasn't really planned, especially the sweater, line, and lure. CDA lake.

Thanks for looking!

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Re: Going Green
Post 11 Nov 2019, 23:14 • #2 
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it's green - think I'll go blue
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Re: Going Green
Post 12 Nov 2019, 17:12 • #3 
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Awesome pics
love the blue


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Re: Going Green
Post 12 Nov 2019, 17:15 • #4 
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this could be a fun thread - we need some more color volunteers


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Re: Going Green
Post 13 Nov 2019, 04:21 • #5 
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I'll dig up one of my kid when he was 6 in blue shoes, pants, shirt (unplanned) with blue fly pole, blue reel, and blue line catching bluegill....


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Re: Going Green
Post 26 Nov 2019, 13:51 • #6 
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sneaking in a fly rod combo with SB maroon - I could wear my HS letter jacket with this

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he has the color on his tail and fin tips
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Re: Going Green
Post 26 Nov 2019, 20:58 • #7 
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Sweet! That looks like a high quality reel im not familiar with. My SB reels look like medalists (maroon medalists).


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Re: Going Green
Post 26 Nov 2019, 21:45 • #8 
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Yes, that SB 1185 perfect clone was only made (by Shakespeare) one year, 1935.
I believe Hardy sued them into changing the reel to make it different enough from Hardy's trademark configuration - it became the Shakespeare model HF, which added a backplate with a panic button drag.
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Something similar happened to the Heddon 125 in 1927 - it so closely copied the St. George latch plate, I believe Heddon handed a St. George to Jack Welch in 1921 and told him to build one. The Heddon 125 disappeared until the St. George latch plate patent expired in 1937 (it was replaced in 1928 in Heddon's line by the Little Rivers, which was a Shakespeare Russell).
The Medalist, which the click-pawl version was also a St. George clone, bypassed litigation threat by patenting their own latch plate.
While the Heddon 125 reappeared in postwar form, unfortunately, Shakespeare never reintroduced their (and SB) perfect.
But the Shakespeare panic button drag continued in the postwar AuSable.


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Re: Going Green
Post 26 Nov 2019, 21:58 • #9 
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Thanks for the history lesson!

I do have one of those AuSables for the green wonderods.


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Re: Going Green
Post 03 Dec 2019, 07:04 • #10 
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and pretty astounding anodizing for 1935
I always though the AuSable would be a perfect match on a 1280T WondeRod with the green springy reel seat.


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