PEETZ REELS
- Thread starter wavetamer
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If you live in Victoria, go to the garage sales in the summer and they are usually very cheap. People just want to get rid of their old junk. Yes they made smaller ones but once the regs. went to barb-less hooks, most preferred the larger diameter reels so they could keep up to a salmon charging the boat to keep it from getting slack and throwing the hook.
Howzer
Active Member
Where or how do you get a new drag system - I have a very old Peetz I wouldn't mind restoring esp. if I could upgrade the drag...
fish brain
Crew Member
fish brain
Crew Member
Before you buy give the reel a good spin while watching the sides if there is any wobble give it a pass, or restore it and put it on the mantle. They are beautiful.
Olde School
Well-Known Member
5" is the way to go. 4" is just too small for the fish, for your hands, etc.
wishiniwasfishin1
Well-Known Member
Looks like it’s $100 to refurbish (clean up wood and brass etc). It $174 to upgrade to one way drag.
Boy those prices have gone up. It seems like not that long ago it was around $100. for the one way drag upgrade.
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JohnnyRingo
Member
Does anyone know exactly what you get in that drag "upgrade" for $174----carbon drag? Leather?
Corey_lax
Crew Member
If your old reel has wood handles and you want to keep them, make sure you make note of that on the work order. I’ve heard of some reels with wood handles being sent in for refinishing and they come back with new resin handles. The old wood handles are part of the great look in my opinion
JohnnyRingo
Member
It has nice cherrywood handles. Would not like to lose them to plastic!! Do you know what that "drag upgrade" consists of?? The wingnut drag on my 1970 reel is OK, but primitive!! Thanks for the note, Corey.
Olde School
Well-Known Member
Perhaps tonight I am feeling a bit curmudgeonly, so don't be offended, but I strongly believe that a lot of the appeal of a wooden Peetz is the wingnut without one way drag.
IMO the change to one way drag is not an upgrade, it is a travesty. Learn to palm!!!
Sure hope no one gets upset at this ;-)
IMO the change to one way drag is not an upgrade, it is a travesty. Learn to palm!!!
Sure hope no one gets upset at this ;-)
JohnnyRingo
Member
NO problem here! Plenty of ways to skin a cat...fish!!
I have a 5" vintage one I'm willing to part with.
fish brain
Crew Member
I had one done a couple of years ago. It's a one way drag system. I don't know how it works, I seem to remember it has ceramic bearings. You set the tension and forget it, no creep on mine. Takes about a quarter turn from dropping your line to set the tension. Nice smooth action when a fish is taking line. I don't regret having mine done, but I need to pull all the line and re polish the brass side of the spool
JohnnyRingo
Member
Thanks!
