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Post 15 Jan 2013, 20:52 • #26 
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Added a photo of the Airweight paper work to Reel Papers topic.


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Post 16 Jan 2013, 10:18 • #27 
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Have you cornered the entire market yet? :)


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Post 16 Jan 2013, 20:20 • #28 
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WW wrote:
Have you cornered the entire market yet? :)

:lol We all have our favorite.


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Post 17 Jan 2013, 08:13 • #29 
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without a doubt, these are the best reels Sth made.


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Post 22 Jan 2013, 20:40 • #30 
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WW wrote:
Have you cornered the entire market yet? :)

Getting close, Airweight 8 and 3 spare spools
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Post 11 Mar 2013, 21:51 • #31 
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Flyguy wrote:
Airweights have a caged frame

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My Orvis Presentation IV (not EXR) has a caged frame.


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Post 19 Mar 2013, 14:31 • #32 
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STH is a great company. I got to tour their factory in Junin de los Andes back in the 90s, but my aversion to disk drags for most freshwater fishing kept me from buying one of their reels. I had frankly forgotten all about these little click-pawl reels until seeing this post. Unfortunately, they no longer make a click-pawl as far as I can see; probably due to the restructuring the company went through during the financial crisis of the last decade.

Thanks for the great photos. I guess I'm going to have to once again expand the parameters of my click-pawl reel collecting to include all of the Americas ... dammit!


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Post 26 Mar 2013, 20:48 • #33 
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Nicodelbosque wrote:

Thanks for the great photos. I guess I'm going to have to once again expand the parameters of my click-pawl reel collecting to include all of the Americas ... dammit!

Welcome to the club.


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Post 28 Mar 2013, 11:41 • #34 
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I'm sitting here at my desk playing with the EXR III I just bought from flyguy. What a beauty! I keep taking the spool off and on just to listen to the "pop!". It should fill the niche between my Abel TR-2 and TR-3 quite nicely. Thanks for reel!

Oh, and my wife would like to have a word with you ...

Nick


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Post 28 Mar 2013, 12:24 • #35 
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if could be worse ever helps, show her this thread
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=38948

and if that's not enough
http://orca-online.org/reel-talk/viewto. .. =7&t=10676

http://orca-online.org/reel-talk/viewto. .. f=7&t=9113

http://orca-online.org/reel-talk/viewto. .. f=7&t=7018

http://orca-online.org/reel-talk/viewto. .. f=7&t=6851

wow, you should have seen Bill Muth's Meek collection
http://orca-online.org/reel-talk/viewto. .. f=7&t=6612

http://orca-online.org/reel-talk/viewto. .. f=7&t=3193
When you're looking at Warren Platt's display, remember there's not a Talbot reel worth less than $500 and most are worth much much more.

http://bulldog1935.u.yuku.com/gallery/s. .. /fid/61509


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Post 28 Mar 2013, 17:27 • #36 
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Bulldog, if she sees those she won't let me play with you guys anymore.

I'm on the ORCA forum, but I don't dare even raise my head over there. That's some seriously sick collecting going on. It gives me reel envy ... but I love it!

After playing around with this thing and spooling it up with a DT-6-F I've come to the conclusion that the EXR III is basically a brawnier CFO IV. Maybe it's all that Argentine beef ...

What is it with reels anyway?

N


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Post 29 Mar 2013, 06:55 • #37 
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you can pet them and mindlessly wind them and pay them, especially if you finish fishing by looping your tippet through the vent holes.


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Post 29 Mar 2013, 08:33 • #38 
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Nicodelbosque wrote:
I'm sitting here at my desk playing with the EXR III I just bought from flyguy. What a beauty! I keep taking the spool off and on just to listen to the "pop!". It should fill the niche between my Abel TR-2 and TR-3 quite nicely. Thanks for reel!

Oh, and my wife would like to have a word with you ...

Nick

I'd like to stay out of that one. I have a wife of my own.


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Post 29 Mar 2013, 08:44 • #39 
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Nicodelbosque wrote:

After playing around with this thing and spooling it up with a DT-6-F I've come to the conclusion that the EXR III is basically a brawnier CFO IV. Maybe it's all that Argentine beef ...

N

I think that is what Orvis intended, fill the niche of the CFO series with the Presentation series.


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Post 15 Apr 2013, 20:20 • #40 
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The CFO Saltwater series, also made by STH, is very similar to the Presentation series.
This reel has a 4" diameter.
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the spring wrapped around the pawls is an interesting design
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Post 15 Apr 2013, 20:34 • #41 
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Flyguy wrote:
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I like salty click-pawl.


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Post 15 Apr 2013, 20:34 • #42 
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Bulldog, those links were amazing. There were about 3 of those collections that actually made my jaw drop. Incredible.


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Post 17 Apr 2013, 15:01 • #43 
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Interesting salt reels. Seems like that spring would be really susceptible to the salt compared to other click pawl designs.


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Post 12 May 2013, 21:11 • #44 
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I was fishing today with my Orvis Presentation IV, on a two handed rod by Mystic,,,,, 11'3" 4wt.

Purchase new many years ago, forgotten in a drawer until recently.

Line is a Wulff Ambush WF6F (235 gr) with 10ft Poly Leader by Airflo with 6ft of tapered tippet.

Regards,
FK


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Post 25 Mar 2021, 00:38 • #45 
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Interesting as heck is what I say... this entire use of a spring system is an oddly cool feature... to say the least...



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Post 25 Mar 2021, 04:49 • #46 
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I have a Saltwater CFO that looks just like Flyguy's, but instead of having the spring wrapping around all the clicker parts, it has the spring connected to a bar across the pawls like the Presentation models in the original post.

The reel is surprisingly light. The "wine cork pop" when removing the spool is unique and distinctive!


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Post 25 Mar 2021, 09:43 • #47 
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I picked a couple of these to compare to my Hardy's & Orvis CFOs. Neat STH reals with a very unique click pawl design, but I have to admit, I think the coil spring design gives it an off putting, "twangy" sound. Maybe I'm just use to what I'm used to. None the less, they are well designed , well made & lightweight. The distinct popping sound from the spool removal is satisfying as well.


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Post 25 Mar 2021, 10:10 • #48 
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Flyguy wrote:
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STH copied that check design from a 1930s Farlow patent, used on the first Grenaby.
The Farlow reel turns up on an FFR search, but unfortunately, the photo of the checkwork is missing.


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Post 25 Mar 2021, 11:42 • #49 
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Neat!


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Post 04 May 2021, 19:55 • #50 
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I always enjoyed looking at them but never owned one. The sound was cool, I have handled a few used ones at fly fishing shows and other placed. Never thought to think of it as a reverb spring, but that may be what I was hearing. Cool reels!!
Mike B


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