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Hardy Bougle MkIV bought on closeout from Harrissportsmail in UK, $230. S/N 034 Here, swinging streamers to check for summer rainbow holdovers, but 2 surprise stripers instead on the 5-wt. (ate them, too - hey, they eat our rainbows) Fished the reel for 5 years and sold for $625 (full disclosure, including the photo above) This was after Hardy moved production from England to Korea for Mk V, VI, and VII, driving up demand for the 1000 MkIVs out there, and every older Hardy reel that said England. Made $395 profit in addition to initially saving $395 This isn't the most dollar profit I made on a reel that I also fished - that belongs to a 1917 Hardy St. George I fished 4 years and sold for just above double what I paid - but the 180% profit is noteworthy, making the Bougle purchase an absolute steal - definitely answering our OP's question. Several other nice benchmade fly reels, Ted Godfrey, Peerless, Kusse Leonard-Mills, I fished and later sold for $200-500 profit, either because the maker doubled their bench prices or stopped making and demand took over. I'm not dumb, if it's burning a hole in my pocket, I sell it. Speculating and repairing antique reels is another story. and yes, turned all that into other tackle. A few years later, Hardy USA complained about Harrissportsmail prices, and Alnwick forced them to raise their prices if they wanted to continue selling Hardy. Hardy has also since moved production of a few reel models back to England from Korea to strengthen their market value. I haven't played the game in a long time, because it takes up too much time to do it well, but if you want to see what's out there, Lang's Auction is this weekend.

We have a standing new moon winter trip to dock fish the nite-lights in Arroyo Colorado barge canal in the Texas tropics. XUL tackle and change-up pays off big - we're stocking up on spotted seatrout for fish tacos, but the bycatch includes snook, redfish, ladyfish, mangrove snapper and the occasional desirable flounder. Lures are 2" swim shad, small twichbaits, UL spoons and plugs, and live shrimp on weightless cigar-cork rig. Also fly rod with size 6 whistlers. The bait are balls of tiny glass minnows, and earlier in the fall, can fish larger lures (3" swim shad) for finger mullet. Rods are long Japanese rockfish rods, to reach the fish sign at the edge of the lights. We spend a lot of time sitting on the dock talking and smoking cigars, waiting on fish sign to stand, cast, and hook up. Stealth is also important, because the schooling gamefish have several miles of dock lights to choose between. Tandem rigs will get you quite a few doubles, multi-species doubles. Need a big long-reach net to lift your catch at the dock. btw, these are all male schoolies 17-22" that travel 25 mi/day to find enough food, and serious sport on UL. The larger females stake out a breeding turf in Laguna Madre.

never - gets washed inside and out every trip - of course, most every trip is salt (cam-strapped to drain) easy to back in and slide it on my sawhorse stands. The dribbles of water that remain are easily sponged through the hatches

On TKF forum, there's a small group of Houston attys who call themselves the Hobie Navy. They prefer night fishing in the lighted canals, always go to their favorite spots in spite of weather predictions and prevailing wind. They often find themselves fighting a gale to get home in the dark. I always use the weather links to plan, always choose the spot so I can paddle upwind first, and will never drift downwind away from home. When my buddy Josh took us to an opposing wind spot in Feb, after the first drift and fight to get back up, I staked out and let them have it, watching them on my binoculars - until they gave up and came back in. You can't always count on the weather prediction - this was predicted 16-kt gusts, and when we checked again after getting home, it was gusting to 28-kt. Another day, NOAA/NWS prediction was NE 16-kt when we launched, diminishing to E 10-kt within 2 hours, and that would have been our perfect ticket home. (Did catch some nice fish.) Unfortunately, 2 fronts reinforced each other and the NE built to 28-kt over the morning and never diminished through the day. We had to retreat on a beam reach, and my buddy's Hobie Revo couldn't overcome the windcock, with reaching waves turtle-ing him twice. But we were only in 3' of water. Know your limitations, and your boat's limitations. Plan your outings in detail against the weather information, and better not to go out alone. This was actually a fun ride - with drift sock deployed to stern, we rode out a 35-kt gale when a wall cloud squall rolled through. Without the drift sock, it would be Instant windcock and turtle.

Simple research to answer the OP's question can find what its value is in 2021. Digging a little deeper can let you speculate and turn a few pieces of old tackle into many more new tackle pieces. @new2BC4bass I'll raise you 100-y-o Talbot Niangua, first model Pflueger Supreme, and Shakespeare B. (never did get the elusive Beetzel, and wasn't trying that hard) In today's money, this was a $650 reel in 1914, and is still worth that today. Tackle values can be fickle from year to year, brand/model prices can be affected by interest from collectors in Japan that can go on for several years then suddenly the demand disappears... But overall, '20 and '21 have been the strongest years ever - we all see the empty tackle shelves. funny thing, after 100 yrs, the box and papers are worth more than the item itself.

ebay search only for Sold listings shows two Team Daiwa Gold sold together for $41 after 10 bids. The one that appears to sell high is Team Daiwa 103HSDF, which has a silver body and several sold examples from $135 to $145. Consider we've been in a seller's market for 2 years now. Need box and papers to get top dollar.

wouldn't we be bad influences if you bought bad tackle because of us? But if you buy good tackle...

I have 3 Lew's low profile reels, two LPS and one SLP (SP). Each reel is dialed into its niche just right. The Super Duty (without P2 pinion) is the oldest, and has worked hardest. My drives are silky, and all work pretty hard, so I've never understood the noisy gears thing that many of you have reported.

In our cold tailwater, if you're catching redhorse, you're matching the hatch. This one took a swinging caddis during a hatch. And yes, they have shoulders - we call them Guadalupe redfish. It was Gary Borger, referring to some form of fish psychologists, reported that trout have an IQ of 6, but cyprinids have an IQ of 12. It was in Gary's stealth talk, illustrating his quote, big fish aren't smart, big fish are cowards. By natural selection, brave and inquisitive fish become fodder.

even javelina is good after a day on the smoker (this is venison flanks and backstrap)

Their warranty is excellent. I have 2 Envy Green inshore, ML bait (7'1") and ML spinning (7'7"). And back to their warranty. The only rod I've ever broken in 50 years of fishing is the Envy Green bait, and it was my fault - a redfish grabbed the lure beside my kayak as I was taking it out of the water, and I high-sticked a set just as he exploded. I was expecting to get a discount replacement, but they said that counts as full-warranty fishing break. I had to cut the rod-label portion of the blank and mail it back to them, and had a new rod in hand 10 days later.

I will add, just this Feb, I lost my first fish and lure from the TA clip. But redfish have crushers in the back of their throat, which may have contributed. Aside from that, released 20 of them this day, all about this size, and kept 2 slot fish for dinner. adding, I remove split rings from plugs even if, on small plugs, I have to clip them with angled cutters. On spinning tackle, I always use a micro swivel - there are different ways to do it, but I most often use titanium-wire micro traces.

I definitely wouldn't throw the reel away (unlike my shelved Lew's Custom Inshore with it's way-too-heavy mag + centrifugal combo spool add-on). But you do need to analyze what's going on with your backlash. Adding to the two excellent posts above, I've found linear mag brakes are best for smooth distance casting, and do their best work preventing mid-cast wind backlash. Here's the short version: There are 3 types of backlash, and 4 types of brakes. The first is spool start-up overshoot. Centrifugal brakes deal with this the best. The second is wind backlash, which occurs in the middle of your cast as your lure is approaching its highest vertical point, and gravity is slowing it - mag brakes work best here - the same for wind and light lures. The last backlash is over-run after your lure hits the water - thumbs take care of this. The fourth brake type is spool tension, which is a constant load on the spool. While spool tension can brake all 3 types of backlash, it costs the most cast distance. Here's the long version, that I first wrote for a friend on another forum about using braid (20-lb 832) with linear mag brake Super Duty

@MIbassyaker Yeah, warmouth are Lepomis sp., and do better in warmer and stiller water than what I call rock bass, Ambloplites, sp. I catch the latter in our coldwater tailrace. When I was a kid, my dad and I knew a couple of spots on Canyon Lake where the warmouth bedded up like crappie, and we caught (and ate) some bruisers.

Japan trout plugs replaced with #6 salt hooks for inshore winter and early spring glass minnows

Texas Tackle for the big stuff. For the really small stuff, search on Amazon for Jeweler's split ring pliers.

ok, I'll show one reel stand hook keeper And this is the $5 hex-shaft version from Gomexus - Legalis, Revros, Emeraldas, Nasci, Sedona, Sierra, Sienna. (though they want $10 for the Shimano/Daiwa common that goes into reel body threads).

Paul Newmann's is the only grocery store pizza I can swallow. Trader Joe's makes pretty good, and I really like their spanakopita.

they traditionally make both marghereta pizza and white pizza in southern Italy, and it's astoundingly good - yes, all about the bread.

Guess I didn't see the rod thread, and would have given the same basic answer - I'd hate to limit myself - there's too much fun to try out there in different niches, and especially, quality available at just about every price level. You often can't find the latter without looking past the brand. Just bought my first Daiwa (matching a rod and niche, and because I liked the spool diameter) - don't expected it to replace my Lew's, just like my Shimano's won't replace my Tica's. Rather than picking by brand, I pick by features I need for my niche and expectations. If a reel meets or exceeds my expectations, I might be back for another, or may try something different next time.

that's actually my buddy's pizza oven - he has - one portable, that one also propane-fired, and a wood-burner. Sorry, I can't tell you the brand, but love the results when I visit, and also when he brings the smaller oven car camping (or RV). And yes, it doesn't travel without the stone.

here's my buddy Josh last weekend fishing a run in the upper Frio for Texas brook trout (endemic Guadalupe bass) The mid-length, mid-weight venerable glass rods from the 60s and 70s are a big advantage in little water like this.

well yes, but you can't take it on a camp out Stevo has the wood-fired at home.

on a camp out once we compromised with hot dog pizza - Randy wanted the gucci dogs sourced from his butcher, Steve bought the pizza oven w/ stone and sourdough. It was quite good. so was the fishing and yes, we always eat well

colloquial names for fish are acceptable for common names. In s. Texas, if it's not a bass, it's a "perch" - to me it's a bluegill, and I know the species distinctions in detail. "Googleye" here gets used for rock bass (below), warmouth (^) and green sunfish, and it's listed that way in the official state (TPWD) species database. In much of the Mississippi drainage, "striper" is used for white bass. All that matters with colloquial common names is that we understand each other.