Needless to say we need a few days of the water to settle down . So see ya Saturday morning .

The Mitchell factory in the French Alps pumped out millions of spinning reels, but the executives weren t experienced anglers as they had only small trout in streams to fish for. Only small fish were biting, but a problem surfaced right away as I could hardly reel since all the screws were popping out.

Traveling along the coast to visit tackle shops put me in a position to learn much more about fishing, particularly in New England where I became a fishing partner of the great plug innovator, Stan Gibbs and many other top anglers while catching striped bass larger than I d ever dreamed of. Tom Lenk was the visionary president of Garcia who turned a small Spanish importing firm into the the giant of the fishing tackle business by introducing mass merchandising techniques into what had been a small store business by introducing Mitchell spinning reels to the public and bringing the price of getting into that relatively new to Americans method of fishing into the range most anglers.