I’m new here and am not sure I’m in the correct discussion area to ask this question?
Anyway, please feel free to move if not.
My question is this…does the DA suffix to the Shakespeare/Pflueger
Model 1494 designate the reel as a “Dual Action” (either left or right hand retrieve) or only designate a production year (1970) for Shakespeare?
I know it states the DA designates “Dual Action”, and I’m hopeful that is correct. However, I’ve been advised that the DA only refers to a Shakespeare manufacturing code date?
Would just like to know for sure which affirmation is correct.
I asked a similar question on another board that uses a lot of Pflueger reels, and a very learned person from there answered this way;
In 1970, Shakespeare bought Pflueger.
The 1970 Medalist was marked model -DA, the Shakespeare date code for '70.
-CJ was the next model change, and coincided with the manufacturing move to Japan.
-AK is for '01 (2001) and coincided with the manufacturing move to China.
no “Double Action”, etc. - the model designations are simply Shakespeare date code.
Hi: I just bought one of those off of ebay and I thought it meant Dual Action. Can it be used as a left or right hand retrieve? I wind with my left hand and control the rod with my right. I haven’t looked at it that closely. I hope it’s a left hand retrieve or can be converted to a left hand retrieve. A buddy has it right now so I can’t look at it.
Thanks
Lotech’s info is correct; it IS a date code. The proof of the pudding is that there were reversible Medalists made prior to the addition of the letters to the reel frame. I fish with a 1959 vintage 1494 Medalist with no DA markings and it is indeed reversible.
So lastchance; you need not worry.
Also don’t forget; One Pfoot makes replacement drag washers for those old 1494’s that guarantee they will be reversable provided they don’t have a round line guard.
There actually is a series right after the DA called the DJ and it was maked by shakespeare in the US but it called the Shakespeare Purist.
Here is a link to some pics has the colors of an orivs madsion sort of… http://www.classicflyfisherman.com/images/rlShakespearePurist7596.htm
But I have converted the old ones but the drag plate has a different amount of indents on the the underside so it sounds a bit different. The DA should convert without a problem.