This short excerpt from a 16-mm film called “The Garcia Story” shows the reels Garcia were selling in very early 1962. Visit us at http://www.mitchellreels.net/ or Ask Questions at http://mitchellmates.yuku.com/ on the Mitchell Mates International Discussion Group website. Tight Lines, Wallace Carney, The Mitchell Reel Museum
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we have this yeahr …
we have this yeahr 2010 and the mitchell 300 and the 308 is the best reel for perch and pike fishing its buduifull
although …
although manufacturers (bar PENN it seems) have finally clued on, there are more
left-hand wind multipliers around, but they have lost potential of millions of $……..’s in the last 40 years
sorry, but casting …
sorry, but casting principles and winding in, should not change with multiplier reel
I think people just accepted the idea that multipliers were right hand retrieve
-I have converted a lot of fishermen to
left hand, and they say their arms ache a lot less after an hours casting
I asked an ex-ABU employee who now services old Abu and Abu-Garcia reels, and he said right handed multipliers were an American idea everyone just copied-very few lefthand multis for sale
in 60′s 70′s 80′s
This is because of …
This is because of the posicion that 99 % of fishermen adopt whjen using a multiplier…that is opposite to the one used while using a fixed spool
how come all the …
how come all the mitchell fixed-spool
reels shown are left hand wind, but the mitchell multipliers are right-hand wind?
-makes absolutely no sence to me?
why change hands?