Four classical musicians perform music, using spring and pawl fly reels from Hardy’s “Classic Line,” at Silver Creek Outfitters. It looks like the instruments include a Lightweight and several Marquis reels.
Many a fly fisher has been seduced by the unmistakable sound of Hardy reels. I am one of them. Probably many more fly fishers have been angered to hear a Hardy reel up the stream from them, screaming each time some other guy catches a feisty fish. What I know for certain is that my wife makes me disengage the pawl on my reel whenever I am cleaning or changing lines at home. I guess she has a tin ear.
The Literary Fly Fisher 
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