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carlz
Show us your Medal
Post 20 Aug 2013, 21:01 • #1 
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Show us your Medalist.
We haven't had enough reel pictures recently and the Medalist have not been getting a lot of love.
Here's one to get us started.
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Featherlight
Re: Show us your Medal
Post 20 Aug 2013, 21:04 • #2 
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Woof! Which particular one is that?
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Kelly L
Re: Show us your Medal
Post 20 Aug 2013, 21:09 • #3 
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I don't have any of the super cool tricked out Medalists. Here are a few of the ones I do have though.

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Southbranch
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Post 20 Aug 2013, 21:25 • #4 
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1496 click pawl drag with handbrake:
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carlz
Re: Show us your Medal
Post 20 Aug 2013, 21:31 • #5 
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Featherlight wrote:
Woof! Which particular one is that?

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I don't know what age it is, but it is a 1495. Somehow when you get back to the made in USA medalists, they are all just like old friends. In fact my first fly reel was 1494 CJ and it is still in regular rotation on my 6wt rods.

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carlz
Re: Show us your Medal
Post 20 Aug 2013, 21:32 • #6 
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Southbranch wrote:
1496 click pawl drag with handbrake:

I've never seen the handbreak before, is that from the factory or a user addition?
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Flyguy
Re: Show us your Medal
Post 20 Aug 2013, 22:14 • #7 
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roadking
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Post 20 Aug 2013, 22:20 • #8 
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Here is my big and little! Both great reels. Have a few in between also.
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Southbranch
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Post 20 Aug 2013, 22:48 • #9 
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carlz wrote:
I've never seen the handbreak before, is that from the factory or a user addition?

I think it is a prototype. The date 3-28-30 and "JOB 23890" are inscribed on the foot.
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quillg
Re: Show us your Medal
Post 21 Aug 2013, 06:35 • #10 
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1492, a beauty for sure and was hard to part with but it wasn't getting much use..now it resides with a proud new owner.
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bulldog1935
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Post 21 Aug 2013, 07:47 • #11 
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(it would break my heart to see Mueller Falls today)

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Duff
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Post 21 Aug 2013, 11:56 • #12 
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bulldog1935
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Post 21 Aug 2013, 12:53 • #13 
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I was wondering when we'd get a pimped reel photo
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Featherlight
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Post 21 Aug 2013, 23:46 • #14 
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Duff wrote:
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That's purdy ...


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Bud
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Post 22 Aug 2013, 01:08 • #15 
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Grouse
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Post 22 Aug 2013, 06:39 • #16 
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CJ. Not as classic as the raised pillar round line guard models of the 1930's but still nice.

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Stonefly
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Post 22 Aug 2013, 15:33 • #17 
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I just traded a smaller reel to my brother for the 1498 CJ. While not made in the USA it is still in very good shape.The other one is a 1494CJ with a made in the USA spool.ImageImageImage
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Glass Enthusiast
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Post 23 Aug 2013, 13:39 • #18 
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I'm ashamed to say I don't have any medalists anymore. I used to have an old one but it wasn't the cool circular line guard ones. I'm always casually in the market for one though.

Duff,

Can you tell us more about that reel? If I could find a lhw one like that I'd totally snatch it up. Not being lhw is the main reason I got rid of my old one ...


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GRASSNGLASS
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Post 23 Aug 2013, 15:29 • #19 
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I don't have any of the old ones around, people keep paying me to much for them. Here's about ninety percent of the ones I do have laying around the house.

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Kelly L
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Post 23 Aug 2013, 15:31 • #20 
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Good grief that is a lot of Medalists!
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Post 23 Aug 2013, 17:01 • #21 
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Pfluegers were the great American fly reel: viewtopic.php?p=109921#p109921

Tradition around here has it that there can never be too many photos on a Pflueger thread:

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When I bought my first Pflueger, I didn't give much thought to what it looked like, but I knew it was an improvement over my Lawrence Sunbeam knock-off.

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Next we'll have to have a revisit of Valentine's day, the Valentine being "a Pflueger on steroids" in Bulldog's phrase.
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Featherlight
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Post 25 Aug 2013, 19:23 • #22 
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1496 1/2, 1498, 1595 1/2, 1594 1/2, 1594, 1494, 1492
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Brian Shaffer
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Post 26 Aug 2013, 07:08 • #23 
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I am going to hold out here ... to see more..
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Bud
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Post 26 Aug 2013, 07:53 • #24 
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Post 01 Sep 2013, 06:26 • #25 
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I like that silver one, does that reel have the paint stripped off, or ... ?
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