It is one of those ironies
that despite inventing modern day fly fishing many of the great innovations
happening in our sport are now born outside the British Isles; even our brand
names are acquiring foreign owners with 2013 at watershed year in that respect
seeing House of Hardy bought by an American conglomerate and Farlow's a wealthy
Russian.
Is any of
that bad? I am not sure, but when I see the beautiful, tactile hemostats
recently launched by Abel reels of west coast USA I don't really care who made
them, I just want one and actually I now do. I was lucky enough to see a
prototype about a year ago, got my foot in the door and commissioned a small
production run just for Fishing Breaks. As it turns out mine were the first
ever out of the factory, which was a saga in itself - you have to admire the
guys at Abel who close on Fridays during the summer as it is surfing season ...
well I guess if your factory was on the Californian Big Sur, you might do the
same as well ....
As I write
my hemostats are currently in a warehouse at Heathrow awaiting customs release
now I have paid a Chancellor's ransom in import duty but I am sure they will be
here in plenty of time as our Feedback draw prizes for 2014. If you can't wait
that long, or don't fancy your chances in the draw, here is the link
to Abel. I don't think the hemostats will be in UK stores until
spring of next year.
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