Langley Lurecast

Willis Logan · Post by **Willis Logan** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:30 pm

While the Langley Streamlite appears to have had many different facelifts, the Lurecast seems to have stayed the same turning it's production. When did it's production start, were there changes in the reels design, and were there any reels that were as fast, in it's time period.

Alan Baracco · Post by **Alan Baracco** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:22 am

Folks,

Willis, having recently come over to reel collecting from the DARK SIDE (lure collecting) missed my article on the Lurecast in the March 2005 REEL NEWS, I will get one in the mail to him today.

The Lurecast started production in 1948, and therefore missed many of the design and materials changes that the Streamlite went through. However, there are several subtle changes throughout production, that lasted to 1962 (and continued with Zebco until the late 1960s). Later versions have the stepped spool flanges and "ON-OFF with arrow" marking on the spool cap, for instance.

Thanks to Nello Armstrong, I fish a customized Lurecast for largemouth bass here in California, in fact since it is nice today, SEE YA!

Alan

Bill Sonnett · Post by **Bill Sonnett** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:07 am

Alan, let me say first of all how much I enjoyed your article on the Langley Lurecast. I have always enjoyed casting and fishing with reels of this time period. To answer Willis' question if there were any other levelwind reels of that time period that were as fast. It is my experiance in casting a bunch of these reels over the years that the Heddon P41N (particularly the deluxe model) will cast up to 1/5 oz and is the equal in this regard to the Langley. However the Langley seems to stand up to the rigors of fishing far better than the P41N. I have fished with two P41N,s and have had both "lock up" tight while handling a large fish. The 8 or 9 Lurecast that I have used never had any such problems. It may be coincidence but the earlier Langley Lurecast with aluminum handle knobs always seemed to me to be a bit smoother and better fitted than the later ones. The 5 or 6 Shakespeare 1973 Sportcasts that I have used, never seemed as fast as the Langley, but with their nylon gears they were much quieter than the other two reels mentioned here and all three were seen regularly in levelwind accuracy events for 3/8 and 1/4 oz in the 1950's and early 1960;s.

Post by **Brian F.** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 1:02 pm

If you're wondering where the record bass discussion went, nothing has been deleted. I just moved it over to the "Show and Tell" forum: http://reeltalk.orcaonline.org/viewtopic.php?t=3281