enow.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: orvis fly reel reviews and comparisons

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Orvis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orvis

    Charles F. Orvis opened a tackle shop in Manchester, Vermont, in 1856. His 1874 fly reel was described by reel historian Jim Brown as the "benchmark of American reel design," the first fully modern fly reel. [3] [4] Prior to the Civil War Orvis was sending out catalogs, which predated more famous ones from Sears, Roebuck by more than 20 years. [5]

  3. Favorite Flies and Their Histories - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favorite_Flies_and_Their...

    Favorite Flies and Their Histories - With many replies from practical anglers to inquiries concerning how, when and where to use them-Illustrated by Thirty-two colored plates of flies, six engravings of natural insects and eight reproductions of photographs is a fly fishing book written by Mary Orvis Marbury published in Boston in April 1892 by Houghton Mifflin.

  4. Fly fishing tackle - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_fishing_tackle

    Fly reels - a specialized type of fishing reel designed to hold fly line and supply drag if required to land heavy or fast fish. Fly line - a specialized weighted fishing line that is designed to allow easy casting with a fly rod and interact with the water by either floating or sinking; Terminal tackle used to connect the fly line to the ...

  5. Scientific Anglers - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Anglers

    Scientific Anglers was founded in 1945 in Midland, Michigan. Scientific Anglers' notable developments include the introduction of PVC coated designs of contemporary floating fly lines in 1952 and the development of sinking fly lines in 1960.

  6. Fishing - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing

    The American, Charles F. Orvis, designed and distributed a novel reel and fly design in 1874, described by reel historian Jim Brown as the "benchmark of American reel design," and the first fully modern fly reel. [26] [27] Albert Illingworth, 1st Baron Illingworth a textiles magnate, patented the modern form of fixed-spool spinning reel in 1905 ...

  7. Fishing reel - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing_reel

    The Art of Angling, first published in 1651, is the first English language book to cite the use of fishing reels. 'Nottingham' and 'Scarborough' reel designs. The first English book on fishing is "A Treatise of Fishing with an Angle" in 1496 (its spelling respective to the manner of the date is The Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle [7] ').

  1. Ads

    related to: orvis fly reel reviews and comparisons