Originally Posted by
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 ( 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.
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