Got an older model Teton "5" that I've had for awhile ~ been a pretty decent reel. I had wondered what had happened to the company. The reel has a couple of nicks in the frame where I suddenly dropped the rod and reel on some rocks. Seems I was fishing in the western North Carolina mountains when a thunderstorm came up - I heard it coming my way with all the rumblings and such. About that time I started getting all kinds of hits and I put off getting out of that stream until the edge of the storm was on me. Lightning and thunder and rain ... and a clap of lightning hit close by and that graphite rod actually started humming and I dropped it like a hot potato!

Ah, yes ... the fly fishing lessons keep unfolding.