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Repair business is the reel deal; shop sometimes fixes 1,000 pieces of fishing equipment in a week.(The Dallas Morning News)

DALLAS _ More than thirty years ago, when Paul Moore got involved in fishing-reel repair, equipment was simple. Bait-casting reels, the preferred tool of the serious bass angler, came in two styles _ red and black. Abu Garcia, the Swedish company, made both models. The black reels had ball ... (Publication: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)

Company Changes Its Name, Shows off New Fishing Reel

No one can accuse the Outdoor Technologies Group of Spirit Lake, Iowa, of doing things in small measures. For starters, some years ago, the firm known as Berkley (as in founder Berkley Bedell) began to acquire properties like Abu Garcia fishing reels, Fenwick rods, Coleman family fishing products ... (Publication: The Washington Times (Washington, DC))

Man to Give Kids New Fishing Reels for Christmas

It will be a Christmas outdoors.At least that's the hope for one man whose generosity has ensured that 120 kids will be receiving brand new fishing reels this Christmas.Bob Post has been working at the Reel Outdoors fishing store in Emerald Isle for 11 years, after a lifetime of working on the ... (Publication: Daily News; Jacksonville, NC)

HULL: REEL DEAL : TINKERER'S CONTRAPTION REVOLUTIONIZED FISHING.(SPORTS)

Byline: Ken Schultz New York Times News Service In the fall of 1947, R.D. Hull arrived at the headquarters of Zero Hour Bomb Co. on Easton Street in Tulsa, Okla., with a prototype of what was to become America's most popular fishing reel. It was made from the metal lid of a can of Folgers Mountain ... (Publication: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA))

Keeping it reel Castine craftsman's batch of fishing tools to be his last

CASTINE - Early in his Atlantic salmon angling career, Paul Hermann hooked a fish in the Penobscot River's fabled Dickson Pool, battled it, and learned a valuable lesson about reels. "[The fish] took me for a ride. I had a Hardy Zenith reel and by the second run, the reel was basically useless," ... (Publication: Bangor Daily News (Bangor, ME))

US Patent Issued on Dec. 30 for "Fishing Rod Reel Foot and Reel Seat" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 30 -- United States Patent no. 8,919,030, issued on Dec. 30."Fishing rod reel foot and reel seat" was invented by Steve Zuckerman (Los Angeles).According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fishing rod assembly is described. The assembly ... (Publication: US Fed News Service, Including US State News)