Herter's stuff....
 

OK, I got the ball rolling with my reply to BJ...so what is
everyone's/anyone's favorite Herter's stuff, good, bad, or nonsensical,
fishing, hunting, or general sporting goods?

TC,
R

Herter's stuff....
 

Herter's stuff....
 

On Apr 17, 5:48 am, wrote:
OK, I got the ball rolling with my reply to BJ...so what is
everyone's/anyone's favorite Herter's stuff, good, bad, or nonsensical,
fishing, hunting, or general sporting goods?

TC,
R

Hereter was the last place I bought parachute fly hooks. They had the
shank bent to form a regular eye and then backwards and then up 90
degrees to a "reqular" eye. that eye being 90 degrees to the shank.
I still have a lot of herters hooks. The parachute hooks I gave
away.
I had a surplus Mexican Mauser ( $18.95 for the barreled action) and a
Herters second stock ( $8.95) that was really sweet.
Herters had lots of good fly tying material ( and lots of gaudy stuff
as well ) that was cheap. The reason they went out of business is
they got in trouble for importing endagered species more than once.
When they went out business they had a small store in suburban
Minneapolis. They brought up lots of stuff from Waseca. I bought
probably 40,000 hooks for maby $20-25. I also bought 75 -80 sets of
reloading dies. All for not very popular calibers like 218 bee,
25-35, 6.5 sweedish, 9.3 x 65 etc. Not an 06, 270 or anything like
that in the lot.
Christian Herter was not related to George and the folks from
Minnesota.

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Herter's stuff....
 

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:48:05 -0500, wrote:

OK, I got the ball rolling with my reply to BJ...so what is
everyone's/anyone's favorite Herter's stuff, good, bad, or nonsensical,
fishing, hunting, or general sporting goods?

TC,
R


I love my "Professional Fly Tying and Tackle Making Manual and
Manufactureers' Guide " wherein he claims all things good for the
Herter family and almost all things non-Herter as being crap. Has many
great original fly recipes. I also have an old Herter's fiberglass rod
(7' 9" E weight line) that is fun to cast. Probably a kit built but
done very well with nice components.


g.c.

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On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:41:54 GMT, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

wrote:
OK, I got the ball rolling with my reply to BJ...so what is
everyone's/anyone's favorite Herter's stuff, good, bad, or nonsensical,
fishing, hunting, or general sporting goods?

Herter's was a little before my time. I was in a rod building
club in 7th grade and we all built spinning rods using Herter's
blanks, cork, reel seat, guides and thread. The Herter's catalog
was one-stop shopping for rod builders circa 1969.

Huh? You're MUCH older than me, and it wasn't before MY time.
Seriously, they were still producing the "George style" catalogs into,
IIRC, the mid-70s (definitely the early 70s). I think the name is still
around (it was a year or two ago), but it's about like A & F...well,
nothing in sporting goods is THAT bad, but...

And speaking of A & F....

TC,
R

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Herter's stuff....
 

Herter's stuff....
 

"George Cleveland" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:48:05 -0500, wrote:

OK, I got the ball rolling with my reply to BJ...so what is
everyone's/anyone's favorite Herter's stuff, good, bad, or nonsensical,
fishing, hunting, or general sporting goods?

TC,
R


I love my "Professional Fly Tying and Tackle Making Manual and
Manufactureers' Guide " wherein he claims all things good for the
Herter family and almost all things non-Herter as being crap. Has many
great original fly recipes. I also have an old Herter's fiberglass rod
(7' 9" E weight line) that is fun to cast. Probably a kit built but
done very well with nice components.


g.c.

I've got all of my Uncle Dick's old Herter's gear for fly tyin' and the
original (1930s or 40s) book/manual of fly fishin' how tos and how not tos.
It's a comical read. George Herter hated the English, apparently, as he bad
mouth' their fly fishin' method, gear, and anything else throughout the
book. It does have a good deal of interesting and informative material in
it though.

My Uncle Dick bought all of his Herter's gear when he was stationed in
Alaska with the USAF, in 1959. I still have several of his original spools
of black thread and a very nice assortment of colored silk floss, as well.

Ebay has pics of some of the stuff I received from Uncle Dick:
http://tinyurl.com/2g46wg

http://tinyurl.com/257vhe

http://tinyurl.com/ywr7tc

Op

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"Willi" wrote in message
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For those of you that have read even one of the Herter catalogs or any of
the Herter books, I think this sheds some light on at least some of
George's behavior on ROFF.

Willi

Agreed!

Op