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.