Fin Nor #2 Anti Reverse LHW - Unused/Like New, Mint Boxed Complete

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Reduced AGAIN! Fin Nor #2, Anti Reverse, left hand wind.

Original owner, purchased around 1987. Like new/mint, boxed, complete with sealed rebuild kit (cork disc, bearings, washers), Fin Nor neoprene pouch, instructions/parts schematic, hang tags, warranty card, box and bilge. Line never loaded, never on a rod, box queen its entire life.

Was $395 - $295 OBRO plus shipping

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

I had one back in the 1970s. They have a very smooth lighter cork drag. We sold many of them.


It was nice for fishing King salmon in the tidewater from an anchored pram because after you hooked a fish you could put it between

your legs (crotch) and still row your boat to get out of the way and land it. With anti-reverse, the handle did not spin.


I had it on a Scientific Angler 'System 9' fly rod. It was a thick fiberglass blank made by J Kennedy Fisher with a spigot ferrule. The male

part of the ferrule was metal into fiberglass female. I think it was 8'9" #9 line in 2 piece. It had a Calair reel seat with a nice removable

short fighting butt.

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I had one back in the 1970s. They have a very smooth lighter cork drag.
It was nice for fishing King salmon in the tide water from an anchored pram because after you hooked a fish you could put it between your legs (crotch) and still row you boat to get out of the way and land it. With anti-reverse the handle did not spin.

Bill,

Bruised, broken knuckles is one thing but a bruised, broken crotch? Thank the gods for anti-reverse!

Great memories!

Rick Murai

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Yes Rick

Anti-reverse is not all that popular but has some good uses.

[Lance Gray]

I would buy this but I have 5 of them already.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

One of our best old fly fishing buddies, Skip Orr, who is gone now, had one of those Gold Fin-Nor No.2 anti-reverse fly reels.

He would go to Upper Goethe Park (Communists named it River Bend Park now ) in the 1970s during the huge Shad runs.

On the weekends the "out of towners" would come and there would be hundreds of fly fishers there.

Skip would stand around on the bank with all his gear on, smoking a cigar and proudly displaying that reel on a Fenwick fly rod.

Someone always stopped and chatted with him because most had only seen those reels in magazines.

[Lance Gray]

One of our best old fly fishing buddies, Skip Orr, who is gone now, had one of those Gold Fin-Nor No.2 anti-reverse fly reels. He would

go to upper Goethe Park ( Communist named it River Bend Park now ) in the 1970s during the huge Shad run. On the weekends the

"out of towners" would come and there would be hundreds of fly fishers there.


Skip would stand around on the bank with all his gear on, smoking a cigar and proudly displaying that reel on a Fenwick fly rod.

Someone always stopped and chatted with him because most had only seen them in magazines.

Denton Hill left me three when he passed and I already had 2. He used them, I used them!!

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Denton Hill left me three when he passed and I already had 2. He used them, I used them!!

Lance, I noticed that you worked at Powell's in the 80's. I managed the photography, catalog production and logo design for Walt and Press so we may have crossed paths. Still have a bundle of their graphite and cane rods. Those were the days!

Now, will someone please buy or trade the Fin Nor?!?!

[Rich Morrison]

Lance, I noticed that you worked at Powell's in the 80's. I managed the photography, catalog production and logo design for Walt and Press so we may have crossed paths. Still have a bundle of their graphite and cane rods. Those were the days!

Now, will someone please buy or trade the Fin Nor?!?!

I’d love to chat with you about the Powells if you have time. Phone and email are in my signature…

[Lance Gray]

Sounds great.

I work there from 87 to 93. I started tying flies for them in 85. Must have crossed paths sometime.

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REDUCED PRICE!

Back in town; reduced price $365/delivered lower 48, $350 pickup

[Carl Blackledge]

Lance,

You and I perhaps crossed paths also, I tied 1000,s of flies for the same shop, mostly Shad flies, early 90s.

Carl Blackledge

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Still available. Trades towards Sage LL, Ross LTXs, ???

[fishnchip]

Denton Hill left me three when he passed and I already had 2. He used them, I used them!!

Denton left you 3? Very cool! I'm surprised he didn't have wedding cakes.

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Updated and reduced!

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

EC Powell's family has a long and very interesting history.

Kiene's Fly Shop was a Powell dealer, starting in the 1980s.

[Lance Gray]

Updated and reduced!

How much is the reel now?

[Lance Gray]

Updated and reduced!

How much is the reel now?

[Rich Morrison]

How much is the reel now?

Looks like $295 is his new price…

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Denton left you 3? Very cool! I'm surprised he didn't have wedding cakes.


I knew Denton Hill too but not as well as Lance because he lived in Chico.

He was associated with Fishing International Travel Service in Santa Rosa, CA, owned by Bob Nauheim and Frank Bertaina.

Denton had some crazy flies he made for permit and bonefish called the 'Cahill'.

His other passion was motorcycles, back in the day.

Denton's old friend, and mine too, was Armando Magri who owned the Harley Davidson shop in Sacramento.

My uncle, Dick Anderson, worked for Magi many years ago.

When Denton and Armando came into my fly shop to go on a big trip it was like having two old celebrities there.

Seriously, they could do a movie about either one of those amazing men of the Great Generation.




We had amazing men like Ted Williams, a baseball great, and Chuck Yeager, a famous pilot, come into our fly shop too.


Also, the big fly fishing companies would send famous fly fishers to our shop as well.

We had famous fly fishers like Chico Fernandez, Doug Swisher, Dave Whitlock, and Al Caucci, (book Hatches), come for a weekend.

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Yes, it's now $295

[jgrear]

Yes, it's now $295

I'm interested in this if it is still available.

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I'm interested in this if it is still available.

Sure. DM me off list.