Wooden fishing reels from Canada

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Over my 50 years in the fishing tackle business in Sacramento I heard about the wooden fishing reels that were made in Canada for many years. I think this was all they had up in those remote areas to fish with. I think they were made for salmon fishing. For trout they mostly had fly outfits that they trolled with too. Before WWII there were no spinning reels except in Europe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPeXw4Nn5Lw

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXDb9Hi3ISU#t=298.205504

Fishing with a wooden reel in a Canadian lake for trout.

Many of these reels were use for conventional salmon fishing too.