Dr. Paul Hermann Salmon Fly Reel - RHW Mint

Dr. Paul Hermann Salmon Fly Reel - RHW MintFor sale here is a Dr. Paul Hermann Salmon fly reel. This one is right hand retrieve. Mint condition. Simply another amazing piece of work by Dr. Hermann. If you ever have a chance to own one of these reels, you are very lucky. Dr. Hermann only made a little over 200 of these salmon models, a little over 100 Baby Hermanns, ~20 Large Trout Models and much fewer of the remaining two models, the Dry Fly Salmon and the Sea Trout. This reel is serial

Oxidized black truncated swiss-style ferrules with a collar on the male ferrules and slant knurl set in the collar

the rod is in near mint condition with only minimal signs of being handled

Up-locking aluminum reel seat over bakelite

hollow built into the tips

James also wrote the foreword

and water shedding grooves on the palming rim give you the ultimate big fish fly reel

Tight reel mechanically

For sale here is an early 70's Orvis CFO V fly reel - the screwback model with three holes in the reel foot

The western-style grip shows faint signs of having been cleaned

It lays #3 line beautifully and I've fished this same model throughout some of New England's best backcountry brook trout waters

The Winston IM6 rods have an almost cult-like following

even more so in this size