
A very cool and truly rare reel by an angler named (and I have to check this tomorrow) Rudolph Wenzel, a jeweler from San Francisco who made probably less than 20 of these. Wenzel held the patent for the Pflueger Medalist drag, and you can see clear evidence of that inside this beauty.

Breakfast with the board this morning included some of the ORCA board, from left, Roger Schulz, John Elder, Brian Funai and Butch Carey....

And quite a few ORCA members who attended and had a good discussion and some good ideas:

And finally, before I crash tonight from operating on East Coast time (3 hours difference from these California surfer bums), I went for a walk along the harbor earlier tonight and admired the amazing statue to the memory of the many tunamen who have died fishing. On the back it lists scores of names of the men who died at sea fishing for tuna. And the statue itself reminds me how dangerous and backbreaking this work must have been, as teams of men hoisted their rods as one to bring in giant, powerful tuna.

Until Friday...
Richard