I promised Sal a while back that I would go to this museum and snap a few pics of the tuna gear they have there. It's a small fishing and maritime museum in a town/village, Råå, in my area. Öresund, the strait between Sweden and Denmark had some big BFT in the 40's-50's. Attracted fishermen from all over the world. Well, this museum has a fighting chair and two rods with reels from one of the charter boats that had Råå as home port. I went to visit the museum today as I, by pure chance, had a business meeting at the museum. I talked to the chairman of the museum and it happened to be her father that was the charter boat captain that donated the gear. I actually snuck out from the meeting to go see the gear and to snap some pictures. :)
The platform with the fighting chair with rods mounted to it. The boat in the picture isn't the original charter boat.
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The big 16/0. A 362kg (800lb) BFT was caught on that rod and reel. The reel on the other rod was a meager 14/0. ;)
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The 16/0 and rod
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The 14/0
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Wire leader and hook
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Leather wrapped handle
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Detail of the rod with the big 16/0
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I couldn't find any label on the rod, but I found this patent number
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And after a quick google search I found this
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http://www.google.com/patents/US2104494
It's a Frank M. O'Brien (Tycoon Tackle, Miami) laminated rod, patented in 1938. It has a oval cross section instead of a round one. Very beautiful rod!
http://www.igfa.org/Museum/HOF-OBrien.aspx (http://www.igfa.org/Museum/HOF-OBrien.aspx)
Finally a box op finest quality Tuna Line, made from linen. 108lb dry test.
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Hope you enjoyed the pictures! It was a very nice little museum with some really nice collections of all things maritime and the business around it.
Karl
Wow,
Thanks for that, great way to spend a morning.
Ron
very interesting! thanks for the tour...
Good Stuff Karl! ;) Thanks for Sharing! ;D
Karl: Thanks for the tour. It sure is interesting. I trust that the business was fruitful or you would not have sneaked out for the museum tour. I am so glad you are out of your funk. Dominick
Sail trolling for bluefin tuna, sounds like a dream to me.
Ron
Thank you so much for bringing this to us Karl, I really enjoyed it....cool stuff ;).
They probably had to come out and get you, to finish business meeting. I know they would have , if it was me standing there ;D.
It was really cool seeing it like that, mounted on the boat. I could see myself sitting in that chair, deckhand feeding me smokes, in my tweeds, while battling the great blue fin. And that O'Brien rod was amazing. Laminated hickory, snakewood and bamboo in perfect harmony! And if I know my traditional bowyers bible enough, I'd say that those are classic bowmaking materials.
;D
/K
good stuff
Quote from: Mandelstam on March 12, 2014, 09:31:10 PM
It was really cool seeing it like that, mounted on the boat. I could see myself sitting in that chair, deckhand feeding me smokes, in my tweeds, while battling the great blue fin. And that O'Brien rod was amazing. Laminated hickory, snakewood and bamboo in perfect harmony! And if I know my traditional bowyers bible enough, I'd say that those are classic bowmaking materials.
;D
/K
Don't forget your Captain Haddock hat! ;D
thanks for sharing karl, neat stuff so long ago.
Very cool, thank you..
Great report Karl,thank's for sharing.
The company that made the "Tuna Line" made Dacron braided fishing line until quite recently.
Thanks for sharing Karl, that was fun!
thanks brother...always way cool to see the old stuff preserved and on display....now need to change my shirt due to excessive drool stains.. :-)
Adding my thanks for the photos. Very nice!
Thanks for your contribution, those were the days, primitive means , good fish, lots that were unknown, cool thing to have an attorney sign off on your rod. how things have changed.........very nice pictures.........thanks for sharing.....gst.
WOW...Quite nice...Thank you
Tim