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I have a 4" silex jewel made by hardy still in the original box. It is in almost brand new shape. I would like to ask anyone for an estimate on when these reels were made and the value of it.
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Monty, These reels were made in the 50's, they are the last of the "handmade" reels and were discontinued in the late 50's...I have a near-mint 3 3/4 reel in the box and in todays flat collectable reel market I'm having a pretty hard time getting what it is worth...I figure $800.00 plus...and this size is way rarer than a 4" reel...I bought a 4" several years ago that was much like yours for $600.00...I'd hang in to it unless you are hard-up for the cash...also, if you can trade it for a super, I would as they are way better reels as far as fishing go's...(lighter spool)
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Thanks Scott, great info. We do own a few in the family, including a decantelle and some Karl Stack reels. In fact old Karl used to be my grandfathers neighbor in Surry. They used to fish the Thompson river together back in the days when you could keep two or three. I live up in Smithers where we have some great rivers to fish. I don't fish for stealhead much anymore due to the numbers of fisherman. But I do get out in November, December for the late season. Keep fishing, and good luck. Monty
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Monty - I'm curious about Karl Stack. What can you tell me about him ? Thanks.
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Quickest way to determine the common North American value of a reel is to visit ebay.com..and do a search of reels currently offered, and those already sold. Monty...does your last name initial begin with a B ???
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Stack reels are like a rough Hardy jewel copy...the several that I've seen are all 4" and more of a conversation piece than a good fishin' reel... Ebay works for some reels but Hardy centerpins are pretty exclusive to our province...even the English don't really use them much...most were exported to Canada (and India for Masheer) but some remain in the UK...most offered are from dealers, hence the high reserves on the auction sites...they know if they don't get the bucks they can sell them into B.C. Buyer beware! there is a lot of junk on the auction sites that may be nice on your mantle but no good to fish with...you can get better reels from people here in B.C. for fair market value...recently a lot of collectors reels have entered our local market too.
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masheer? Wow Scott, you are an erudite. "The Fish of Gods France, 26:05 min Directed by Jean Queyrat In an isolated region in the west of Nepal, lies the land of the river people, the Rajis. They live from day to day on the fish they catch and the gold dust they collect. One day, the goddess Kanyakumari threw a handful of gold dust into the river to thank the Rajis for helping to cross the other side of the river. The golden dust settled on the fish: and in that way, was born the legend of the golden masheer. Fakir Bahadur, the chief of the Raji village of Ghatgaon, and his son go up the Karnali river in search for the golden masheer, the fish of gods. " "It is another tiger territory in Nepal, even better for that than Chitwan, and is also famous for game fishing which can yield the massive 50-kg plus masheer fish - similar to an ocean perch" just when I thought I was the only erudite one around LOl bongo
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The Americanos ( and some of us too) in the know use the silex for dry fly fishing...set up the fly, mend, and let the fly run and run via the silex's spool release mechanism..... ;-) The fly can fish the length of the line of the spool if yoiu want it to.
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Hello bobber. Do you own any of the Karl Stack reels? My my Father, Grandfather and Karl used to fish the thompson quite often. My grandfather used to live in the house next door to Karl. We used to go over and pick up new a dog for our reels once and awhile, or even some pencil lead. Karl Stack passed away years ago. He used to live down past the sunny side school in surrey. I don't remember the name of the road. Its been many years since I've been down to the lower mainland. But my Dad said he used to be a logger and was a very nice guy.
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I don't know much about the history of these reels and India. But I do know there great fishing reals. I hope to give it whirl this fall. Maybe its still a virgin. Hopefully the fishing will be another good one up here in Smithers, in the Bulkley River.
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Hi. My name is Al Lewis & I live on the Queen Charlottes at this time.I see my son had some questions on Karl Stack so I thought I might be able to answer some of those questions for those that are interested.Karl moved to the south Surrey area in the late 60's from the Arrow lakes where he was a logger all his life. Living next door to us it did not take him long to get involved in steelheading.After afew years ,I would guess about the early 70's he began making reels similar to the Hardy reels we used.These reels were never finished that well, but they worked & that was all that Karl required of them.He also made some fly reels, but not that many.At that time he made the reels for him self and a few close friends,but as time went on there seemed to be a demand so he started selling them.Living in the White Rock area,I believe we in that community were the first to use ghost shirmp for bait.When Karl arrived it did'nt take him long to figure out that shoveling for them bugs as he called them was too much work ,so he designed the first pump made of a 2"copper pipe& a stripped ball as a plunger.We spent many good days with karl on mostly the Thompson Rv.I still use the cork floats he made me in those good days.Karl made too many numerous things to mention here. They were,nt necessarily perfect, but worked and he enjoyed making them.I must say that I am surprised to hear they are collectable& priced at about $350.00.We used to pay Karl $25.00 bucks for them.Karl passed away about 1996,but he apparently has not been for gotten.I'll never forget those great days on the Thompson fishing with my Dad & Karl Stack.
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