Orvis Battenkill 8/9
Doug Hughes
Newsgroups: rec.outdoors.fishing
Subject: Re: Orvis Battenkill 8/9 reel info. wanted
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 23:31:37 -0600
Message-ID: <doughughes-...@aragorn67.acns.nwu.edu>
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL USA
In article <2mo5dj$c...@agate.berkeley.edu>, tem...@toe.CS.Berkeley.EDU
(Fred Templin) wrote:
> In article <2mksm0$1...@news.u.washington.edu>, tga...@u.washington.edu (Antho
ny M. Gades) writes:
> |> Hello,
> |>
> |> I think that I have decided that the new fly reel I need is
> |> an Orvis Battenkill size 8/9.
...
|> Two questions:
> |> -any first-hand experience with these reels that anyone
> |> could share with me (reliability etc.)
> |> -any clues where I can get one for less than $110
> |> (and spare spool for less than $44)
I have the Battenkill 8/9 and have found it perfectly adequate -- perhaps a
testimony to my recent failure to tie into big fish more than a endorsement
of Orvis quality. It is solid, but reels (maybe more than rods) are an
area where price reflects quality more than taste -- good reels are
expensive, but if it saves you one nice steelhead, what's it worth?
Your only chance to get one of these reels (and most other big-name fly
equipment) below list cost is to buy it used (as I did mine, out of the
Chicago Reader classifieds). They are never discounted.
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