First fish with my D Fuller "Old Reliable"

[Old and Reliable]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Except for the fact that the several Medalists I own do not have an exposed rim...

- What I meant was, the Hardy Perfects have a palming spool drag feature, besides the check pawl that serves to prevent over-spooling. They are set on ball bearings, and are indeed fine reels. The original Akron mfg. Pflew-Gear Medalists did not have exposed rims, the later Yakasaki copies had that feature, if memory serves.

Hey Dean- I always watch the Boston Pops on the tube every year at 4th July- Host/MC was a Boston native son- Mike Chicklets(?) from Andover- isn't that your set-up, and that home of the late great Skeet-Ist Wm. Hardon Foster Jr.- A died-in-the wool grouse and Parker small gauge man to boot??
By the power O'mud there, Eb- if I recall the remark about a fox killed by the "little gun" (A Parker 16) about 1885 or so-I have an original copy of his book, published my year of birth 1941- great writer, as was the late Burton Lowell (close to Boston, yes?) Spiller, and later salt water fishing editor Frank Woolner- great stuff- I even drank a few Sam Adams brews to honor "Beat-Town" Cheers!!!!