Steans & Co. / E.J. Brown - 4 5/8" Sea/Salmon Silex style reel

Steans & Co. / E.J. Brown - 4 5/8" Sea/Salmon Silex style reelFor sale is a very scarce Silex style reel made by E. J. Brown and sold by Steans & Co. from New Zealand. 1950s vintage. 4 5 8" diameter, 1 1 2" spool width, weight 21 1 4 oz. Right hand retrieve. A very solid reel mechanically. No repairs or unoriginal parts exist. The foot is perfect. The on off click lever works as intended. The hand brake applies an adequate amount of pressure to the revolving spool while fighting a fish. The spool screw also

Built with a 3-up node pattern

Garrison style hook-keeper

Comes in a handsome brown leather block case

Convertible from LHW to RHW

"A longer 8'6 rod for #5 line that's perfect for light line trouting on bigger waters

For sale here is a Hardy Bougle Limited Edition fly reel commemorating the 1903 Hardy Bougle model

great Bob Geiger of Seattle

Foreward by Dave Whitlock

Nickel copper rims

Rod was built in 2002 and not fished that much

with an actual fly tied by Schwiebert above it

it was surplus B-24 aluminum aircraft tubing that was used to make handmade bamboo fly rod tubes for Paul Young