Otto Zwarg Model 400 Salmon Reel 2/0 9'6" Third hand tool

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For sale here is an authentic Catskill dry fly by the Dettes - a Red Humpy

Rumor has it that the rod could be Hunt's personal salmon rod although no genuine provenance is available to support that statement

Most Orvis rods tend to do better with a line size or two down

Black tipping at guides

Otto Zwarg Model 400 Salmon Reel 2/0 9'6" Third hand toolA nice Otto Zwarg 400 Laurentian model salmon reel in 2 0 size. 3 3 8" diameter and set up for RHW. 11. 9 oz in weight. Serial #B106, indicating a rare circa 1947 Brooklyn made reel, and it has the Brooklyn stamp on the oil port as well (after two years of operation in Brooklyn, Zwarg moved his reelmaking operation to Florida in 1947. Zwarg, of course, had been the foreman at the Vom Hofe shop for many years). The reel is in excellent overall