Hardy Bougle Lightweight III Reel 12'6" with a super arbor design

with a super arbor design and porting on the frame and spool

This reel is beautiful work from the absolute best of our modern reel makers and is from his first run of Deluxe trout reels

with some cosmetic casting cracks at the ferrule wraps and brassing to the inner snake guides

The drag selector can be adjusted to seven different levels

The rod includes beautiful hand turned brass ferrule plugs

Hardy Bougle Lightweight III Reel 12'6" with a super arbor designA nice Hardy Bougle Lightweight III fly reel, 3" in diameter and can be reeled either left or right. The reel appears unfished. A scarce model to find this one has garnered a bit of a following thanks to its handsome design, a combination of the traditional raised pillar Bougle frame coupled with teardrop porting to the spool and winding plate. It weighs 4. 1 ounces on my scale. Gray frame with a silver spool and winding plates. Smooth alloy foot.