best fly fishing hooks for steelhead 100 The U503 takes a classic salmon bend shape and pairs it with an upturned loop eye Steelhead Hooks - Nano, Mosquito

5000 De Luxe with "black star drag wheels" (earliest models) # 2 # 1133 # 2706 # 4257 # 4372 # 56xx....Couldn't read last two digits, but had silver plate bearing M9 # 6663 # 8097......my reel, complete unit with silver plate bearing M9 # 9442 To view the mark (M9) on the silver name plate, you really need a high powered magnifying glass to see it

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50 lb (.36mm)

Thicker lines get pushed by the current more, which is not good, and thicker lines can make the bait sink slower

So for many thousands of years, anglers did without reels and didn't find it much of an inconvenience