Hardy Bougle 110th Anniversary Limited Edition Fly Reel EF Payne Rod Company Although this rod was finished

Although this rod was finished out by the consumer

Hardy logo on both faces

Black and bronze jasper silks

of Bristol

Serial number 4551 - made in 1978

Hardy Bougle 110th Anniversary Limited Edition Fly Reel EF Payne Rod Company Although this rod was finishedLIMITED EDITION BOUGL REEL Limited Edition fly reels, handbuilt in Alnwick, England in a run of 110 numbered reels to commemorate 110 years since production of the first Bougl reel. Louis Bougl In the early 1900s, Hardy's were approached by an extraordinarily flamboyant Frenchman, at that time almost unknown in England, whose name would become familiar to two generations of the firm's customers and would echo down even to our own time. His name was