Wes Drain Steelhead reel - extremely scarce!

Wes Drain Steelhead reel - extremely scarce!For sale here is a very scarce Wes Drain Steelhead reel, one of 7 8 reels made with the aid of Boeing engineers machinists and their facilities in Washington State. Drain was a well known and very accomplished fisherman, holding a 20+ year record for the largest steelhead landed in the State of Washington, caught on the Skagit River on a self made fly pattern now known as the "Drain's 20", named after the 20+lb steelhead that set the record. Flies

unlike the other sections

Though marked as a 6-7 weight rod on the butt it is suited more for a 5 or 6

For sale here is a like new copy of Rare And Unusual Fly Tying Materials: A Natural History by Schmookler & Sils - Volumes 2 Birds and Mammals

from around 1900

Unaltered ribbed brass foot and MKII check

with the backing included and the reel foot is 2

For sale here is a nice example of a pre-war Hardy Perfect Duplicated MK II wide drum fly reel

These wrap colors are not the standard Leonard colors so the rod could have been custom ordered with these wraps from the factory or the rod could have been refinished at some point

" Blonde cane

The reel's adjustable drag system is beyond amazing

It weighs 4

The rod was fished once but remains in like new condition