Julius Vom Hofe / Dame Stoddard - Hard Rubber Fly Reel - Size 4

Julius Vom Hofe / Dame Stoddard - Hard Rubber Fly Reel - Size 4For sale here is a Julius Vom Hofe made size 4 hard rubber reel made for retailer Dame Stoddard. 2 1 8" diameter, 1" wide spool. Hard rubber side plates, crank style handle and nickel plated brass hardware. Stamped with "Julius Vom Hofe Maker N. Y." as well as a stamp from retailer "Dame, Stoddard & Co. Boston" on the head plate. Condition is excellent, with blemish free and unpolished hard rubber, strong constant click and full length, unaltered

Nickel silver cap and ring reel seat over a mortised Spanish cedar spacer

The original owner's name is stamped on the bottom of the butt cap

8'9" 3/1 for a 6 weight line

This is only an aesthetic issue

and then laid out the line clear across the Trans-Canadian highway

Down-locking reel seat over a butternut spacer with a nickel silver butt cap

baking about 100 reel seats in the tempering oven to achieve this light caramelized color

For sale here is a highly desired Loop Hitec Salmon reel - size 4

C Carpenter 7' 3" 2-piece Browntone rod with two mirrored tips

Titanium version

Includes ferrule plug for mid section

with a crisp fast action