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Venables showed a picture of a reel in his " Experienced Angler " in 1662. The winch of Barker, Walton and Venables was a large, grooved wooden spool of the type still used in England and known as the Nottingham reel. The early Kentucky bass fly fishermen, according to Henshall, used a reel similar to the Nottingham which they made from a large sewing thread spool fitted with a frame, handle and base made by the local tinker. 49 Some of them also used imported reels or the multipliers which they made themselves with wonderful skill as early as 1810.1 The earliest click reel turned out especially for fly fishing for bass was made by J. L. Sage of Frankfort, Ky., in 1848. It is still in excellent fishing condition and is of solid brass measuring 23/8 inches in diameter and 11/4 inches between head and tail plates. It has a permanent click which is placed in the head instead of the rear as is usual in click reels. It has an unusually sweet song. |
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