Dunfly - Thanks for my new Desk Top photo! LOL!!

Hap - love my Hardy Zenith - got around 1981 and a CFO IV, gotten around 1992? Work like a champ and are good lookin reels to boot! Would be hard to part with them!

My Pfluegers are relegated to streamer/wooly bugger type fishing, where I don't have to worry about snapping light tippets - Pfluegers have horrendous start-up inertia IMHO!

MarkF - Hardys were top of the line in their day ( the ones I mentioned above) - I could not justify that same price now. My J. Ryall reels were about the same in price (or less) and can run circles around the Hardys - the Ryalls drag system is leaps and bounds above the Hardys. With 6x/7x and smaller tippets, I need a drag that can be fine tuned with minimal start-up inertia ( if I am using this term correctly!). Pfluegers are too "klunky" for a lot of my fishing - but have their place in some of my fishing situations. I love the click from all these reels because I associate it with fond memories and those still to come!

Best regards, Dave S.