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Back Issues of the Reel News

Past issues of every printing of the Reel News are available for members. The issues from 1991 to 1997 are copies of the original printing. Actual copies of all issues from 1991 to current are available as long as they last.

Unless you are purchasing a whole volume (1 year) you might want to search the Reel News Index for copies of interest. You can then make your purchase from this page.

Volume I - 1991

January   Premier issue, Show reports, Quick reference to Kentucky reels, Reel life in the NFLCC, List of ORCA Charter Members. 4 pages. $2.00
April - Oliver's Auction and NEAA show, 10 books on reels, More Charter members. 4 pages. $2.00
June 22 most Expensive Reels, Charter Members, Show reports. 4 pages. $2.00
October Details not currently available $2.00
Volume I All four issues for the year 1991 $7.50

Volume II - 1992                                                                                                

January NY Reels, Show and Auction reports. 4 pages $2.00
June Master-Kaster Pump Reel, Auction & Show reports. 4 pages. $2.00
September Details not currently available. $2.00
December Details not currently available. $2.00
Volume II All four issues for the year 1992. $7.50

Volume III - 1993

Spring Details Not currently available. $3.00
Summer Vernon grading system, More Master Kaster reel info, Auctions. 8 pages. $3.00
Fall Snyder Reels, Reel Values, Show and Tell. 10 pages. $3.00
Winter Yale Reels, Meisselbach Reels, Pflueger Supreme Models. 10 pages. $3.00
Volume III All four issues for the year 1993 $11.00

Volume IV - 1994

Spring Fly Lines De-Mystified, Auction Notes. 10 pages. $4.00
Summer Financial Statement; Auction Notes; Fly Lines Revisited; American Fly Reels, 10 of the Best. 12 pages. $4.00
Fall The Fowle Salmon Reel; Airex Spinning Reels; Brief History of the Ocean City Manufacturing Co.; Hints on Dating Hendryx Reels; The Deadly Reel; Mystery Reel; 12 pages. $4.00
Winter Tournament Surf Reels; Earliest JvH Trout Reel?; An Outline of Early American Salmon Reels; The Deadly Reel; Mystery Reel. 12 pages. $4.00
Volume IV All four issues for the year 1994 $15.00

Volume V - 1995

Spring Talbot’s Ben Hur Fly Reel; The "Reel" History of the United States; James Heddon’s Auto-Thumber; The Deadly Reel; Mystery Reel; 16 pages. $5.00
Summer The Falch/Fenner Reel; Penn Fishing Tackle Mfg. Co.; Edward Vom Hofe & Company; Mystery Reel; 100 Years of the Fly Reel; 16 pages. $5.00
Fall Hardy Brass Faced Fly Reels; A Word For Reel Cases; The Marr Reel; Mystery Reel; 16 pages. $5.00
Winter A Note on Identifying Malleson Reels; Winchester and the Fine Line; An Introduction to Langley Reels; The ABC’s of Wm. Shakespeare Jr’s First Reel; A Quick Reference Guide to New York Reels; 16 pages. $5.00
Volume V All four issues for the year 1995 $17.50

Volume VI - 1996

Spring Reels, Their Use and Abuse; The "Carver" Snyder Reel; The Wowser of the Year; Daytona Auction; The Gyratory Reel; Lang’s Auction; 16 pages. $5.00
Summer Bronson Reel Co.; More on Malleson Reels; Identifying Early Penn Reels; Reel Oilers; Gold Rod & Reel; Ocean City Orlando Reel; Lang’s Auction; Winans & Whistler Reel; 16 pages.  $5.00
Fall The Pflueger Supreme; Little Rock report; First Model Meisselbach Take-Apart Reel; Collector’s War Stories; Langley Demonstrator Reels; Langs Summer Auction; 16 pages. $5.00
Winter Zane Grey-Coxe Reel; Reels in Cans; Click & Drag reels; Kasschau Reel; Art of Bait Casting; Heddon Thumber II; 16 pages. $5.00
Volume VI All four issues for the year 1996 $17.50

Volume VII - 1997

Spring Reel Prices & Trends; Vintage casting tournament; Early Penn Reels; First Tarpon Caught on Rod & Reel?; Distance Tournament Casting Reels. 16 pages. $6.00
Summer Early Pflueger Casting Reels; Identifying Early Mitchell Spinning Reels; Snyder Reel at Lang's Auction; The Daytona National; Origin of the Short Bait Casting Rod; and columnists, book review, and more. 20 pages. $6.00
Fall Montague "Generic" Reels 1 - casting reels; ORCA Annual Meeting; the Edsall/Bristol reel & handle; NFLCC National show; American Fly Reels; Fishing Tackle Trademarks; Making of a Fine Fishing Reel; Wowsers at Langs; and more. 20 pages. $6.00
Winter Pflueger Reels, from Adams to Worth; The Reel Lady; Glasgow Spinet Reel; ORCA Honorary Members; Edward vom Hofe in Cyberspace; Meisselbach-Pflueger connection; Montague Generic Reels 2 - Fly Reels; D.A.M.; Allentown, mini national; now 2 regualr columnists, and more. 24 pages. $6.00
Volume VII All four issues for 1997 $20.00

Volume VIII - 1998

Spring Redifor Rod & Reel Co., Reel Collecting in Europe, Ashaway Slip-Cast Reel, Montague Generic Reels 3 - Utility Reels, Third Party Transactions, Bishop Level Winder, regular columns, and more. 24 pages. $6.00
Summer When Reel Makers Went To War, Pflueger Fishing Reel Trademarks, Click & Drag Revisited, Montague Generic Reels 4 - Salt Water Reels, Follett Automatic Reel & Butt, Lang's Spring Auction, The Arjon Fisher, regular columns & more. 28 pages. $6.00
Fall Carlton Manufacturing Co, Penn Spinfisher Reels, Fishing Company Letterheads, NFLCC National, ORCA's Annual Meeting, Counterfeit Fishing Reels, Birth of the Automatic Reel, Regular columns & more, 28 pages. $6.00
Winter John A. Cozzone & his reels, True Temper Reelrod, George Perry and his world record bass, Patience is a Virtue, Kentucky Reelmakers Time Line, A Visit to the American Museum of Fly Fishing, Rochester Reel Company, Herb Butler Fish Reel, Martin Automatic Reel, Cleaning, Restoration & Repair of Old Fishing Reel - Part 1, regular columnists, and lots more. 32 pages. $6.00
Volume VIII All four issues for 1998 $20.00

Volume IX - 1999

Spring South Bend Casting Reels, More on Rochester Reels, Restoration & Repair - part 2, The Meisselbach Tripart, Reel Display Cabinets, Reel Collecting for the Birds, History of the Pflueger Summit, Lang's Auction, all our regular columnists, and more. 32 pages. $6.00
Summer E.A. Pflueger Reels, The Gulf Reel Company, The Carlton Decendants, H. J. Frost & Co in 1920, The Huffman Attachment, Hardy Book Review, Jug Fishing, Stu Lawson, Richard Lodge, Bob Miller, and lots of great stuff. 28 pages. $6.00
Fall The ORCA Show, The Reels of L.W. Holmes, The AR-BE Brake Reel, Henry Manning's Fish Line Reel Holder, ORCA Special Interest Groups, The NFLCC National, and all our regular columnists. 28 pages. $6.00
Winter Pflueger Templar & Atlapac reels; Horton Mfg. Co. part 1; Worden Belly Reel; Pliny's Last Reel; Is the Internet Wrecking Tackle Shows? and all the other good stuff from our regular columnists. $6.00
New Years This special issue features articles from the first 10 years of the ORCA Newsletter. $6.00
Volume IX All five issues from the year 1999 $24.00

Volume X - 2000

Spring 1st Reel Award, South Bend Good Luck Tokens, Dating Shakespeare Reels, Talbot tournament reel, Horton Mfg. Co. 2, Thumb Reels, Legacy of the Left, ORCA National Show, Langley Whitecap #425, and more. $6.00
Summer Swaged, Riveted, or Pressed, Earliest Langley?, Dating Ambassadeur 5000 reels, Horton Mfg. Co. 3, Bogdan Salmon Reel, Surf Reels, Kasschau Reel, Jaleoxe Reel, and regular columnists. $6.00
Fall South Bend ABL Reel, Zebco, Pflueger Pfacts, Mitchell Reference Guide, Brower Reel-Holder, and all the regular columns. $6.00
Winter ORCA Convention, South Bend ABL reel 2, Cleaning reels, The Farshure Reel, Reel Screwdrivers, Bronson Invader, Francis Loomis, and much more. $6.00
Holiday Revisited: The Pflueger Supreme, Stream-liner Reel, South Bend ABL Reel 3, Sea Gull Reels, Winchester Reels, German Mystery Reel, Gadgets, and all the columnists. $6.00
Volume X All five issues of the year 2000 $24.00

Volume XI - 2001

March James A. Henshall, Pflueger trolling reels, Dopper Spinning Reel, Ball on Ball reel, Doc Herr, Reel Collectors are nice people, Daytona Beach Show & SB Auction, and all the columns. $7.00
May The Willoughby Reel, Dating Mitchell Reels, Phantom Pflueger found, Kona Marlin on Antique Tackle, Where are the younger collectors, and lots more. $7.00
August So you want to collect old reels?, Lang's Auction, US Patent Office on line, Meisselbach-Catucci Symploreel fly reels, John Elder's Wooden Reel, and more. $7.00
October The ORCA Convention, Spinning Reels of Edward Small, Heddon 3-15, Mitchell Gold, Pflueger Kentucky Style Reels, Surf Reels, Embossed brass reel, Reel News Index.  $7.00
Volume XI All Four volumes from the year 2001 $25.00

Volume XII - 2002

January Tractor Reels, The Tepker Thriller, Comments on Collecting, Behinds the scenes of the ORCA Convention, Pflueger Names, Lang's Auction, and all the columns. $7.00
March The ORCA Annual: Starting aal Reports, plus all the columns and The Membership Roster. $7.00
May Harry Stutz and his Talbot Reel, Once in a lifetime Wowser, Mitchell's 498, Pre-1910 Pflueger Salt Water Reels, New Meisselbach column, plus all the regular columns. $7.00
July Full report on the ORCA Convention, Keene Valley Reel, Penn Squidder, Shakespeare Codes, Pflueger Akron, South Bend Reels, P. A. Altmaeir Rod & Reel, and lots more. $7.00
September The Dyer Reel, K.Y. James Tournament Reel, Working for Shakespeare, Shakespeare Codes, Ocean City Reels, Merit-Stalder reel, and lots more stuff. $7.00
December Ustonson and Mr. Gregory, Illustrated envelopes & covers, Indiana Reel from Michigan, Epinger Casting Reel, Pflueger Automatic Reels 1, Stober reel, and lots more. $7.00
Volume XII All 6 issues from the year 2002 $30.00

Volume XIII - 2003

January Windshield-Wiper Levelwinds, Bache Hamilton Brown, More on Eppinger Notangle Reels, Vintage Fishing Reels of Sweden, Pflueger Pfacts (Automatic reels II), Ranger Reels, Jim Schottenham's Birdcage Reel, Penn Coronado, A.F. Meisselbach & Bro., Pflueger Akron Exploded drawing, Langs Auction Reports, and a whole bunch more. 7.00
March Member Roster, What is the future of your collection?, ORCA 2003 National Convention, Shakespeare-ORCA Partnership, The "Thunderbird Keahoni" Reel, Stephen Hays' Tournament Casting Reel, Ranger Reels Part 2, Pflueger Pfacts (Revelations of Enterprise History), and a lot more. 7.00
May The Reel Deal, Annie Oakley and the Nevermiss Reel, Wide Spool Tournament Reels, Pflueger Pfacts (Pflueger Nobby), Cataloguing Early Pflueger Medalists, Inexpensive Indiana Reel Spools, Spinning Lines (Shakespeare II Series), and a ton more!  7.00
July ORCA National Convention, Dowagiac 2003, Collecting Counter-Balanced Handled Reels, Hermos Reels, Pflueger Pfacts (Spinning Reels, Part I), Who Says Collecting Old Reels is Expensive?, Automatic Reels, Kirk Ewart's Brass Trolling Reel, A.F. Meisselbach & Bro. (Meisselbach-Catucci Reels), and oodles more! 7.00
September The Wooden Meisselbach Good Luck Reel, Elmer Larson's Shasta Fly Reel, Langley Plugcast, Pflueger Pfacts (Pflueger Quadruples), "Record Player" reel, Magnetic Brakes, Phil white's Pivoting Spinning Reel, How to Identify an Old Reel, Exploded Drawings Pflueger Free Flite No. 1200, Review on "Warman's Fishing Lures Field Guide", Review on "Collectible Fishing Reels", and so much more! 7.00
December Reel Materials & Finishes, Reflections from the daughter of a Shakespeare Salesman, Rogue Reels of Oregon, Pflueger Pfacts (Post WWII Saltwater Reels), Thunderbird Casting Reel, John Elder's Flip Reel, Spinning Lines (Pickup Finger or Half Bail?), Updates on Mother of all Auctions and Allentown.  Plus many other articles! 7.00
Volume XIII All 6 issues for the year 2003 30.00

Volume XIV - 2004

January The 2004 ORCA Convention, Plastics, Another Anti-Backlash Method, Pflueger Spinning Reels II, Giant Brass Reel?, Alcedo Stuff, Zebco Model 1970, Round Pillar Meisselbach Takapart Reels, Pflueger Reel Assembly, and lots more.  $7.50
March Big Game Reels of George Garey, Benson Rod & Reel Combinations, How Will You Transfer Your Reel Business? Pflueger Top Ten,   Bottom Feeding, Spinning Reel Review, Meisselbach's Big T, Shakespeare Repairs, Auction Report, Membership Roster, and lots more. $7.50
May Heddon Imperial No. 125, South Bend Bits, ORCA's First Regional Show, The Great Pawl War, Pflueger Reel Accessories, Pre-Shakespearean Literature, Ball on Ball Reel, Meisselbach Blue Diamond, Penn Leveline 350, Penn Archives, Mitchell 300 repairs, plus lots of other stuff. $7.50
July Report from the ORCA Convention, Rassey Reel, Snowflake Reel, Pre-WWII Pflueger Reels, Adjustable Brakes, Billinghurst Estate, ABU/Zebco Connection, Penn Live Bait Caster #259, plus more. $7.50
September ABE Fishing Combination, South Bend Southpaws, Langley Streamlite, Pre-WWII Pflueger Reels II, Clutches with Yokes, Zebco Cardinal Spinning Reels, True Temper Bronson 63 Repairs, and lots more. $7.50
November Resetting Click-Pawl Springs, Origin of the Star Drag, Pflueger Service Reels, Pflueger or Montague, Reel Values, Zebco Cardinal Spinning Reels II, Langley Fly Reels, Cardinal 4 Repairs, and more. $7.50
Volume XIV All 6 issues for the year 2004 $35.00

Volume XV - 2005

January The Ocean City Fortescue, Indiana Reel Spools, Star Drag Revisited, Lew Childre, Penn Archives, Short Lived Pre-WWII Enterprise Reels, Penn Spincaster, Allentown Show, South Bend Presentation Boxes, Zebco Cardinal 3s, Quick Champion Repairs, plus book reviews, letters and more. $7.50
March Colgrove Spinning Reel, United States Reels, Langley Lurecast and Target baitcasters, Left Hand Enterprise Reels, Pflueger Fly Reel Notes, Rarest Cardinal Reels, Langley Reel service, plus Membership Roster and lots more. $7.50
May Briggs Reel Company, Rod that "Talked to me", Meisselbach Zephyr, Gear Box Control Langley Baitcasters, All American Lathe, Small Pfluegers, Great Deally Reel, Mitchell Reels at auction, Lash Master Reel repair, and lots more. $7.50
July 2005 ORCA Convention in Texas, Serialized Pfluegers, South Bend Fly Reels, Pflueger FasKast repairs, Ocean City Baitcasters, Coit Electric Reel, A Pair of Rare Spinning Reels, plus lots more. $7.50
September Meisselbach First Model Automatic, Pikies and Uncle Toms, Pflueger Seminole, South Bend Fly Reels II, Garcia Ambassadeur 1750 repairs, ORCA at ICAST, Early Record Spinning Reels, and more. $7.50