Dingley Fly Reel 3 3/8" - Perfect Style - LHW Westley Richards!

Dingley Fly Reel 3 3/8" - Perfect Style - LHW Westley Richards!For sale here is an extremely scarce left hand wind Dingley 3 3 8" Perfect style fly reel, retailed by gunmaker Westley Richards and Co. Ltd. Birmingham. The reel is in excellent original condition and features a strong dual pawl check system from the 1930's. Tension knob works perfectly. Bronze line guide is in fine condition. Gear teeth and pawls are still very sharp. The original, un filed and full length smooth brass reel foot with two original

All sections are straight and full-length

The reel comes with a very uncommon half-ribbed alloy foot (see 1962 Hardy catalogue)

Serial #90722

with a diameter of 4 1/2" and a spool width of 1 1/4"

The rotary head (jaws) remains very steady under pressure making spinning hair and wrapping hackle a breeze

Fine teak wood spacer with Struble down-locking reel seat hardware

Orvis 1874 Trout Reel

Cosmetically there are a few scratches and a slight amount of rock rash

For sale here is an impregnated Orvis Madison 8'6" 2/1 8-9wt bamboo rod with a labeled weight of 5 1/8 oz

3 1/8" diameter with unblemished agate line guide

thus the name "Redbone"

EBS (Effective Braking Surface)- EBS is measured by the surface contact area of one disc times the number of surfaces it contacts