Orvis Fly Wallet

Orvis Fly WalletExcellent Orvis Fly Wallet, canvas with fleece lining. Excellent used condition with lots of life left in it. A great, lightweight way to store your streamers and wet flies.

An absolute must-have for any Bogdan aficionado and a nice chance here to pick up the rarer limited edition of this definitive work

Paul Hermann reels are the rarest to be found of reel makers in the Vom Hofe and Walker tradition

A handsome copy of Hardy's Angler Guide from 1927

Stamped on the pocket cap "E

Named after famed tournament caster Louis Bougle

Walnut slide band seat has a small patch of varnish loss

Also of note is that the aluminum acorn cap on the bottom of the seat pulls out to reveal a nickel silver ferrule with which the fighting butt can be attached

This copy is unopened in its original wrapper

I actually would not call it "medium" at all

A superb Bogdan Baby Trout reel from the most famous reelmaker in the world

gilt edges

It differs from my later rods by the following two details: there is a wooden lip on the reel seat where it meets the rear of the grip and the wraps are a slightly darker shade of red then the current "may rose" color that I would later settle on (with edges that are also slightly darker)