while recovering from hip surgury have had time to try and catch up with all the projects i have put off and read alot on the web one thing that came up on joes site in dealing with the death of clyde harbin was the people who had met him and those who had only communcated by email
and i must agree with those who spoke about meeting him in person you just cant get that much into an email
as for orca and i i have been very lucky the first person i met was the snake-oil salesman len[this is inside joke for those that have met len] and not long after phil just those two alone bring up alot of really good memorys [the three of us going fishing in my boat at the first orca national] and meeting steve vernon[and getting his book straight from the author] ben wright also and have since met stu lawson and so many more at the last two orca nationals[in my own back yard no mountains to cross ask len]have already a few times gone back and looked at the pics that are posted always reminds me of milt[the col.]who ive had the pleasure on many occaisions of shows and room trading etc and don and joan from the heddon museum jerry and margret jack and of course kuni and all our extra fishing trips and all those others that used to come to the ann arbor show[moved to west branch and i highly recomend attending it]while i dont want to omit people i could go on for a long time about so many
i really wanted to go to the regional but as i had my surgury the week before that was pushing it and at this time the national is not looking good but possibly the nflcc national the essence of what all this is saying dont deny yourself the expierence of a show we can buy and sell reels on ebay a hundred times and never know a thing about who was selling or buying and with that i will end this monolog and post some reels at the sell swap orca list carl schultz
why go to shows
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does that mean i can qualify as a geezer?
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Qualify for What?
You're not a geezer yet.
We sure had a great morning on that lake in PA didn't we. Len's pin-point casting still awes me.
See, until you can put together sentences like that you'll never make the geezer list.
We sure had a great morning on that lake in PA didn't we. Len's pin-point casting still awes me.
See, until you can put together sentences like that you'll never make the geezer list.
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What's all this Geezer talk about? Did I fish in PA? And I got my first hip replacement back in 1992 (I'm pretty sure it was a hip), so Jack & Carl are about a decade behind me!
As to the original question, I like all aspects of the sport. I like to take reels apart (especially other people's). I like fixin'm up and passing them off as almost original. I like the thrill of sniping on ebay and being the first one at a yard sale. I like estate auctions and walking into the local pawn shops where everyone knows my name. I like emailing people about reels and talking to collectors on the phone. I like talking with people who have studied reels for years and talking to folks who just discovered old reels are cool last week. I like going to ORCA events where I feel right at home, and I even like going to "lure shows" where people think reel collecors are "nuts" (unless the lure dealer just happens to have a rare German Silver prototype Bronson Wondereel, with almost 80% of the original finish, and still in the correct Akron box, complete with factory copper trolling line - then I'm their best Bud!). I like reading my Reel News (even when it's a month late) and looking over illegal zerox copies of Steve V's old articles or thumbing through Phil's Meiss book and price guide to see if I can retire yet, and visiting Harvey's web site so I can kick myself for selling that rare blue Shakespeare box. I even like reading these meandering posts. But despite what he says, I'm not really sure I like Carl all that much (although he is a lot easier to keep up with these days!).
Len
As to the original question, I like all aspects of the sport. I like to take reels apart (especially other people's). I like fixin'm up and passing them off as almost original. I like the thrill of sniping on ebay and being the first one at a yard sale. I like estate auctions and walking into the local pawn shops where everyone knows my name. I like emailing people about reels and talking to collectors on the phone. I like talking with people who have studied reels for years and talking to folks who just discovered old reels are cool last week. I like going to ORCA events where I feel right at home, and I even like going to "lure shows" where people think reel collecors are "nuts" (unless the lure dealer just happens to have a rare German Silver prototype Bronson Wondereel, with almost 80% of the original finish, and still in the correct Akron box, complete with factory copper trolling line - then I'm their best Bud!). I like reading my Reel News (even when it's a month late) and looking over illegal zerox copies of Steve V's old articles or thumbing through Phil's Meiss book and price guide to see if I can retire yet, and visiting Harvey's web site so I can kick myself for selling that rare blue Shakespeare box. I even like reading these meandering posts. But despite what he says, I'm not really sure I like Carl all that much (although he is a lot easier to keep up with these days!).
Len
