Past issues of every printing of the Reel News are available
for members. The issues from 1991 to 1997 are copies of the original
printing. Actual copies of all issues from 1991 to current are available as
long as they last.
Unless you are purchasing a whole volume (1 year) you might
want to search
the Reel News Index for copies of
interest. You can then make your purchase from this page.
Volume I - 1991
January
Premier issue, Show reports, Quick reference to
Kentucky reels, Reel life in the NFLCC, List of ORCA Charter
Members. 4 pages.
$2.00
April -
Oliver's Auction and NEAA show, 10 books on
reels, More Charter members. 4 pages.
$2.00
June -
22 most Expensive Reels, Charter Members, Show
reports. 4 pages.
$2.00
October -
Details not currently available
$2.00
Volume I
All four issues for the year 1991
$7.50
Volume II -
1992
January
NY Reels, Show and Auction reports. 4 pages
$2.00
June
Master-Kaster Pump Reel, Auction & Show reports. 4
pages.
$2.00
September
Details not currently available.
$2.00
December
Details not currently available.
$2.00
Volume II
All four issues for the year 1992.
$7.50
Volume III - 1993
Spring
Details Not currently available.
$3.00
Summer
Vernon grading system, More Master Kaster reel info,
Auctions. 8 pages.
$3.00
Fall
Snyder Reels, Reel Values, Show and Tell. 10 pages.
Financial Statement; Auction Notes; Fly Lines
Revisited; American Fly Reels, 10 of the Best. 12 pages.
$4.00
Fall
The Fowle Salmon Reel; Airex Spinning Reels;
Brief History of the Ocean City Manufacturing Co.; Hints on Dating
Hendryx Reels; The Deadly Reel; Mystery Reel; 12 pages.
$4.00
Winter
Tournament Surf Reels; Earliest JvH Trout
Reel?; An Outline of Early American Salmon Reels; The Deadly Reel;
Mystery Reel. 12 pages.
$4.00
Volume IV
All four issues for the year 1994
$15.00
Volume V - 1995
Spring
Talbot’s Ben Hur Fly Reel; The "Reel"
History of the United States; James Heddon’s Auto-Thumber; The Deadly
Reel; Mystery Reel; 16 pages.
$5.00
Summer
The Falch/Fenner Reel; Penn Fishing Tackle
Mfg. Co.; Edward Vom Hofe & Company; Mystery Reel; 100 Years of the Fly
Reel; 16 pages.
$5.00
Fall
Hardy Brass Faced Fly Reels; A Word For Reel Cases;
The Marr Reel; Mystery Reel; 16 pages.
$5.00
Winter
A Note on Identifying Malleson Reels; Winchester and
the Fine Line; An Introduction to Langley Reels; The ABC’s of Wm.
Shakespeare Jr’s First Reel; A Quick Reference Guide to New
York Reels; 16 pages.
$5.00
Volume V
All four issues for the year 1995
$17.50
Volume VI - 1996
Spring
Reels, Their Use and Abuse; The "Carver" Snyder
Reel; The Wowser of the Year; Daytona Auction; The Gyratory Reel;
Lang’s Auction; 16 pages.
$5.00
Summer
Bronson Reel Co.; More on Malleson Reels;
Identifying Early Penn Reels; Reel Oilers; Gold Rod & Reel; Ocean
City Orlando Reel; Lang’s Auction; Winans & Whistler Reel; 16 pages.
$5.00
Fall
The Pflueger Supreme; Little Rock report; First
Model Meisselbach Take-Apart Reel; Collector’s War Stories; Langley
Demonstrator Reels; Langs Summer Auction; 16 pages.
$5.00
Winter
Zane Grey-Coxe Reel; Reels in Cans; Click & Drag
reels; Kasschau Reel; Art of Bait Casting; Heddon Thumber II; 16
pages.
$5.00
Volume VI
All four issues for the year 1996
$17.50
Volume VII - 1997
Spring
Reel Prices & Trends; Vintage casting tournament;
Early Penn Reels; First Tarpon Caught on Rod & Reel?; Distance
Tournament Casting Reels. 16 pages.
$6.00
Summer
Early Pflueger Casting Reels; Identifying Early
Mitchell Spinning Reels; Snyder Reel at Lang's Auction; The Daytona
National; Origin of the Short Bait Casting Rod; and columnists, book
review, and more. 20 pages.
$6.00
Fall
Montague "Generic" Reels 1 - casting reels; ORCA
Annual Meeting; the Edsall/Bristol reel & handle; NFLCC National
show; American Fly Reels; Fishing Tackle Trademarks; Making of a
Fine Fishing Reel; Wowsers at Langs; and more. 20 pages.
$6.00
Winter
Pflueger Reels, from Adams to Worth; The Reel Lady;
Glasgow Spinet Reel; ORCA Honorary Members; Edward vom Hofe in
Cyberspace; Meisselbach-Pflueger connection; Montague Generic Reels
2 - Fly Reels; D.A.M.; Allentown, mini national; now 2 regualr columnists,
and more. 24 pages.
$6.00
Volume VII
All four issues for 1997
$20.00
Volume VIII - 1998
Spring
Redifor Rod & Reel Co., Reel Collecting in Europe,
Ashaway Slip-Cast Reel, Montague Generic Reels 3 - Utility Reels,
Third Party Transactions, Bishop Level Winder, regular columns, and
more. 24 pages.
$6.00
Summer
When Reel Makers Went To War, Pflueger Fishing Reel
Trademarks, Click & Drag Revisited, Montague Generic Reels 4 - Salt
Water Reels, Follett Automatic Reel & Butt, Lang's Spring Auction,
The Arjon Fisher, regular columns & more. 28 pages.
$6.00
Fall
Carlton Manufacturing Co, Penn Spinfisher Reels,
Fishing Company Letterheads, NFLCC National, ORCA's Annual
Meeting, Counterfeit Fishing Reels, Birth of the Automatic Reel, Regular
columns & more, 28 pages.
$6.00
Winter
John A. Cozzone & his reels, True Temper Reelrod, George Perry and his world record bass, Patience is a Virtue,
Kentucky Reelmakers Time Line, A Visit to the American Museum of Fly
Fishing, Rochester Reel Company, Herb Butler Fish Reel, Martin Automatic
Reel, Cleaning, Restoration & Repair of Old Fishing Reel - Part 1,
regular columnists, and lots more. 32 pages.
$6.00
Volume VIII
All four issues for 1998
$20.00
Volume IX - 1999
Spring
South Bend Casting Reels, More on Rochester Reels,
Restoration & Repair - part 2, The Meisselbach Tripart, Reel Display
Cabinets, Reel Collecting for the Birds, History of the Pflueger
Summit, Lang's Auction, all our regular columnists, and more. 32
pages.
$6.00
Summer
E.A. Pflueger Reels, The Gulf Reel
Company, The Carlton Decendants, H. J. Frost & Co in 1920, The Huffman
Attachment, Hardy Book Review, Jug Fishing, Stu Lawson, Richard Lodge,
Bob Miller, and lots of great stuff. 28 pages.
$6.00
Fall
The ORCA Show, The Reels of L.W. Holmes, The
AR-BE Brake Reel, Henry Manning's Fish Line Reel Holder, ORCA Special
Interest Groups, The NFLCC National, and all our regular columnists. 28
pages.
$6.00
Winter
Pflueger Templar & Atlapac reels; Horton Mfg. Co.
part 1; Worden Belly Reel; Pliny's Last Reel; Is the Internet
Wrecking Tackle Shows? and all the other good stuff from our regular
columnists.
$6.00
New Years
This special issue features articles from the first
10 years of the ORCA Newsletter.
$6.00
Volume IX
All five issues from the year 1999
$24.00
Volume X - 2000
Spring
1st Reel Award, South Bend Good Luck Tokens, Dating
Shakespeare Reels, Talbot tournament reel, Horton Mfg. Co. 2, Thumb
Reels, Legacy of the Left, ORCA National Show, Langley Whitecap
#425, and more.
$6.00
Summer
Swaged, Riveted, or Pressed, Earliest Langley?,
Dating Ambassadeur 5000 reels, Horton Mfg. Co. 3, Bogdan Salmon
Reel, Surf Reels, Kasschau Reel, Jaleoxe Reel, and regular
columnists.
$6.00
Fall
South Bend ABL Reel, Zebco, Pflueger Pfacts,
Mitchell Reference Guide, Brower Reel-Holder, and all the regular
columns.
$6.00
Winter
ORCA Convention, South Bend ABL reel 2,
Cleaning reels, The Farshure Reel, Reel Screwdrivers, Bronson Invader,
Francis Loomis, and much more.
$6.00
Holiday
Revisited: The Pflueger Supreme, Stream-liner Reel,
South Bend ABL Reel 3, Sea Gull Reels, Winchester
Reels, German Mystery Reel, Gadgets, and all the columnists.
$6.00
Volume X
All five issues of the year 2000
$24.00
Volume XI - 2001
March
James A. Henshall, Pflueger trolling reels, Dopper Spinning Reel, Ball on Ball reel, Doc Herr, Reel Collectors are
nice people, Daytona Beach Show & SB Auction, and all the columns.
$7.00
May
The Willoughby Reel, Dating Mitchell Reels, Phantom
Pflueger found, Kona Marlin on Antique Tackle, Where are the
younger collectors, and lots more.
$7.00
August
So you want to collect old reels?, Lang's Auction,
US Patent Office on line, Meisselbach-Catucci Symploreel fly reels,
John Elder's Wooden Reel, and more.
$7.00
October
The ORCA Convention, Spinning Reels of Edward Small,
Heddon 3-15, Mitchell Gold, Pflueger Kentucky Style Reels, Surf
Reels, Embossed brass reel, Reel News Index.
$7.00
Volume XI
All Four volumes from the year 2001
$25.00
Volume XII - 2002
January
Tractor Reels, The Tepker Thriller,
Comments on Collecting, Behinds the scenes of the ORCA Convention,
Pflueger Names, Lang's Auction, and all the columns.
$7.00
March
The ORCA Annual: Starting aal Reports, plus all the
columns and The Membership Roster.
$7.00
May
Harry Stutz and his Talbot Reel, Once in a lifetime
Wowser, Mitchell's 498, Pre-1910 Pflueger Salt Water Reels, New
Meisselbach column, plus all the regular columns.
$7.00
July
Full report on the ORCA Convention, Keene Valley
Reel, Penn Squidder, Shakespeare Codes, Pflueger Akron, South Bend
Reels, P. A. Altmaeir Rod & Reel, and lots more.
$7.00
September
The Dyer Reel, K.Y. James Tournament
Reel, Working for Shakespeare, Shakespeare Codes, Ocean City Reels,
Merit-Stalder reel, and lots more stuff.
$7.00
December
Ustonson and Mr. Gregory, Illustrated
envelopes & covers, Indiana Reel from Michigan, Epinger Casting Reel,
Pflueger Automatic Reels 1, Stober reel, and lots more.
$7.00
Volume XII
All 6 issues from the year 2002
$30.00
Volume XIII - 2003
January
Windshield-Wiper Levelwinds, Bache
Hamilton Brown, More on Eppinger Notangle Reels, Vintage Fishing Reels
of Sweden, Pflueger Pfacts (Automatic reels II), Ranger Reels, Jim
Schottenham's Birdcage Reel, Penn Coronado, A.F. Meisselbach & Bro.,
Pflueger Akron Exploded drawing, Langs Auction Reports, and a whole
bunch more.
7.00
March
Member Roster, What is the future of your
collection?, ORCA 2003 National Convention, Shakespeare-ORCA
Partnership, The "Thunderbird Keahoni" Reel, Stephen Hays' Tournament
Casting Reel, Ranger Reels Part 2, Pflueger Pfacts (Revelations of
Enterprise History), and a lot more.
7.00
May
The Reel Deal, Annie Oakley and the Nevermiss
Reel, Wide Spool Tournament Reels, Pflueger Pfacts (Pflueger Nobby),
Cataloguing Early Pflueger Medalists, Inexpensive Indiana Reel Spools,
Spinning Lines (Shakespeare II Series), and a ton more!
7.00
July
ORCA National Convention, Dowagiac 2003, Collecting
Counter-Balanced Handled Reels, Hermos Reels, Pflueger Pfacts
(Spinning Reels, Part I), Who Says Collecting Old Reels is
Expensive?, Automatic Reels, Kirk Ewart's Brass Trolling Reel, A.F. Meisselbach &
Bro. (Meisselbach-Catucci Reels), and oodles more!
7.00
September
The Wooden Meisselbach Good Luck Reel, Elmer
Larson's Shasta Fly Reel, Langley Plugcast, Pflueger Pfacts
(Pflueger Quadruples), "Record Player" reel, Magnetic Brakes, Phil
white's Pivoting Spinning Reel, How to Identify an Old Reel, Exploded
Drawings Pflueger Free Flite No. 1200, Review on "Warman's Fishing Lures
Field Guide", Review on "Collectible Fishing Reels", and so much more!
7.00
December
Reel Materials & Finishes, Reflections from the
daughter of a Shakespeare Salesman, Rogue Reels of Oregon, Pflueger
Pfacts (Post WWII Saltwater Reels), Thunderbird Casting Reel, John
Elder's Flip Reel, Spinning Lines (Pickup Finger or Half Bail?),
Updates on Mother of all Auctions and Allentown. Plus many
other articles!
7.00
Volume XIII
All 6 issues for the year 2003
30.00
Volume XIV - 2004
January
The 2004 ORCA Convention, Plastics, Another
Anti-Backlash Method, Pflueger Spinning Reels II, Giant Brass Reel?,
Alcedo Stuff, Zebco Model 1970, Round Pillar Meisselbach Takapart
Reels, Pflueger Reel Assembly, and lots more.
$7.50
March
Big Game Reels of George Garey, Benson Rod
& Reel Combinations, How Will You Transfer Your Reel Business? Pflueger
Top Ten, Bottom Feeding, Spinning Reel Review, Meisselbach's
Big T, Shakespeare Repairs, Auction Report, Membership Roster, and lots
more.
$7.50
May
Heddon Imperial No. 125, South Bend Bits, ORCA's First Regional Show, The Great Pawl War, Pflueger Reel
Accessories, Pre-Shakespearean Literature, Ball on Ball Reel,
Meisselbach Blue Diamond, Penn Leveline 350, Penn Archives, Mitchell 300
repairs, plus lots of other stuff.
$7.50
July
Report from the ORCA Convention, Rassey
Reel, Snowflake Reel, Pre-WWII Pflueger Reels, Adjustable Brakes,
Billinghurst Estate, ABU/Zebco Connection, Penn Live Bait Caster #259,
plus more.
$7.50
September
ABE Fishing Combination, South Bend Southpaws,
Langley Streamlite, Pre-WWII Pflueger Reels II, Clutches with
Yokes, Zebco Cardinal Spinning Reels, True Temper Bronson 63 Repairs,
and lots more.
$7.50
November
Resetting Click-Pawl Springs, Origin of the Star
Drag, Pflueger Service Reels, Pflueger or Montague, Reel Values,
Zebco Cardinal Spinning Reels II, Langley Fly Reels, Cardinal 4
Repairs, and more.
$7.50
Volume XIV
All 6 issues for the year 2004
$35.00
Volume XV - 2005
January
The Ocean City Fortescue, Indiana Reel Spools, Star
Drag Revisited, Lew Childre, Penn Archives, Short Lived Pre-WWII Enterprise
Reels, Penn Spincaster, Allentown Show, South Bend Presentation Boxes,
Zebco Cardinal 3s, Quick Champion Repairs, plus book reviews, letters
and more.
$7.50
March
Colgrove Spinning Reel, United States Reels, Langley
Lurecast and Target baitcasters, Left Hand Enterprise Reels,
Pflueger Fly Reel Notes, Rarest Cardinal Reels, Langley Reel
service, plus Membership Roster and lots more.
$7.50
May
Briggs Reel Company, Rod that "Talked to me",
Meisselbach Zephyr, Gear Box Control Langley Baitcasters, All
American Lathe, Small Pfluegers, Great Deally Reel, Mitchell Reels at auction, Lash Master
Reel repair, and lots more.
$7.50
July
2005 ORCA Convention in Texas, Serialized Pfluegers, South
Bend Fly Reels, Pflueger FasKast repairs, Ocean City Baitcasters, Coit
Electric Reel, A Pair of Rare Spinning Reels, plus lots more.
$7.50
September
Meisselbach First Model Automatic, Pikies and Uncle Toms,
Pflueger Seminole, South Bend Fly Reels II, Garcia Ambassadeur 1750
repairs, ORCA at ICAST, Early Record Spinning Reels, and more.
$7.50
November
Meisselbach First Automatic II, eBay is Fraught with
Peril, Ahead of the Curve, Anti-Back-Lash lawsuit, Origins of
Closed-Face Spinning Reel, Trade Reels of Janney, Semple, Hill & Co,
Shakespeare Reel Colors, Shakespeare Wondercast repair, and much more.
$7.50
Volume XV
All 6 issues for the year 2005
$35.00
Volume XVI - 2006
January
ORCA 2006 Convention details,
Langley spinning reels, South Bend fly reels, Part III,
Reel prices over 20-year span, The Ganungs analyze Lang's transition, Mighty
Portage Atlas, Whetting the Talbot whistle.
$7.50
March
ORCA 2006
Convention details, Langley's 500 Series baitcasters, Reels for 'convention-al'
fishing, Richards & Conover trade reels, A tribute to Ed Corwin,
Worth: A Pflueger Trilogy, ORCAns invade Pigeon Forge.
$7.50
May
South Bend oddities, Langley's
saltwater reels, Morley-Murphy Co., Santa Rosa reels, 5 forgotten baitcasters, Mysterious Cas-King, ORCAns at Lang's.
$7.50
July
Convention coverage, Thos. E.
Wilson reels, Name-changing game.
$7.50
September
ORCA National plans, T. S. Skilton's reels, Pflueger materials & finishes.
$7.50
November
A Marshall Field's Memorial,
Saltwater Pfab Pfive, Rare Pflueger Medalists, ORCA
goes on the road.
$7.50
Volume XVI
All 6 issues for the year 2006
$35.00
Volume XVII - 2007
January
Schmelzer & Sons Arms Co, Pflueger outfits, kits, and sets,
Lucky Bob's Pflueger "Second", Striper fishing display, A
tribute to Harvey Garrison
$7.50
March
2007 membership roster, South Bend imports, Pfluger spinning
reels, ORCA National, Report from Pigeon Forge
$7.50
May
A pleasant surprise, A "shirt" tale, Putting your
Mitchell to work, ORCA National, ORCA National Registration,
ORCA ballot
$7.50
July
2007 Convention coverage, Macy's tackle, Mystery Trio,
Nat Uslan's reel, A Penn 6/0 fish story, Waiting for an epiphany
$7.50
September
A Small revisitation, Library acquisitions, Casting
competition, Smokey makes our day, A (humorous) eBay Guide
$7.50
November
Treasures in the Keys, "Everyman's" saltwater reel,
Morrison's "Superfine", Dues renewal form, Convention
registration
$7.50
Volume XVII
All 6 issues for
the year 2007
$35.00
Volume
XVIII
2008
January
The President's
Page Jim Schottenham Reels of the
Trade, Todd E.A.Larson More Reel
Stuff, Stu Lawson Pflueger Pfacts,
Bob Miller Show Calendar Spinning
Lines, Ben Wright Library
acquisitions, Don Champion Auction
Report, Jim Schottenham The Reel Fix,
Col. Milton Lorens Exploded views
View from the Backseat, Richard Lodge
$7.50
March
Shimano Brush
Buster by Phil White Hoosier Reels by
Tim Bauer Winans & Whistler by Vernon
and Kirby Cussins & Fearn reels by
Dr. Todd Larson Ranger Reels, Part II
by Terry McBurney ORCA Financial
Reports, 2007 2008 Convention details
'Reborn' Pflueger Bond by Bob Miller
ABU Cardinal 3 repro by Ben Wright
The Heitman Reel by Todd Larson South
Bend Freecasts by Jim Madden The Reel
Fix by Col. Milton Lorens Exploded
Drawings More Reel Stuff by Stu
Lawson 2008 Roster by state and
country 2008 Roster: A to Z The
editor's page by Richard Lodge
$7.50
May
A ball-handle
proposal by Steven K. Vernon The AA
Reel by Tim Bauer The John Wilkinson
Co. by Dr. Todd Larson Library
acquisitions by Don Champion Pioneer
Bait & Tackle by Terry McBurney Show
Calendar FATC show report by Ed Slane
Auction report by Jim Schottenham A
'Supreme' year by Bob Miller An
elusive Cardinal by Ben Wright Letter
to the editor 'Ugly Reel' target by
Stu Lawson The Reel Fix by Col.
Milton Lorens Exploded Drawing
Book review by Todd Larson The
editor's page by Richard Lodge
$7.50
July
President's
Message by Jim Schottenham ORCA
fishing contest by Stu Lawson
Rethinking Shakespeare by Espen Sjaastad
The John Wilkinson Co. by Dr. Todd
Larson Golden Gate Angling Club by
Jim Wiegner Show calendar Auction
report by Jim Schottenham Pflueger
Pfacts by Bob Miller Letter to the
editor The Reel Fix by Col. Milton
Lorens Exploded View of Penn 420 and
430SS Breakfast with the Board by
Roger Schulz The B&H reel by Tim Bahr
Abbey & Imbrie logos by Mary Kefover
Kelly The editor's page by Richard
Lodge
$7.50
September
President's
Message by Jim Schottenham Saving a
Kovalovsky by John Elder & Brian Funai
E. vom Hofe strikes again by Ed Slane
Von Lengerke & Detmold by Dr. Todd
Larson Show calendar Book review
by Roger Schulz Auction report by Jim
Schottenham More reel stuff by Stu
Lawson The Reel Fix by Col. Milton
Lorens Exploded View of Penn 420 and
430SS The Marc Reel by Tim Bahr
Ball-handle reel project by Steven K.
Vernon Pflueger Pfacts by Bob Miller
The Auction Report by Jim Schottenham
Spinning Lines by Ben Wright South
Bend Bits by Jim Madden Library
acquisitions by Don Champion The
editor's page by Richard Lodge
$7.50
November
President's
Message by Jim Schottenham Reels of
the Trade by Dr. Todd E.A. Larson
What goes around by Ed Slane 'Fake'
reel collector by Stu Lawson Reprints
from Fishing Collectibles Magazine
Pflueger Pfacts by Bob Miller with Craig
Barber Unmarked Langley mystery
Show Calendar The Reel Fix by Milton
Lorens Exploded view South Bend
Bits by Jim Madden Inside view of an
L.A. Coxe by John Elder The Auction
Report by Jim Schottenham Spinning
Lines by Ben Wright Library
acquisitions by Don Champion The
editor's page by Richard Lodge