Quote Originally Posted by dudley View Post
On the final episode of The Fishin' Hole with Jerry McGinnis there was a good clip of Jerry, Coach Knight, and Ted Williams fishing for Atlantics in Russia
Mr Williams was using a Medalist reel on a similar low end rod.
This was not the 'olden days' when that's all there was and Mr Williams could surely afford to use what ever high end stuff he wanted.
He just chose not to
Ted 'The Splendid Splinter', retired to his place on a great Salmon river up North, and his preferred rods were built for him by Fenwick. At the time he started, Fenwick was state-of-the-art, first in glass and then in the new carbon fibres. Even though I have and happily ffish Generation 2, 3, 4,....Nth sticks and have cast innumerable casting machines, quite a few of the Fenwick models are my favorites.

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BTW, if you examine the innards of Pflueger Medalists, you will see a very sophisticated drag system.