Calling him “the man who changed fly fishing forever,” T. Edward Nickens writes an extensive profile of fly reel craftsman and personality Ted Juracsik, who started life in machining as a teenage tool-and-die maker in a Budapest bicycle factory.
“Ted Juracsik is a name engraved—literally—in the history and development of big-game saltwater fly fishing. With the 1976 introduction of Juracsik’s Billy Pate Reel, a stout, machined anti-reverse reel with a brawny drag inspired by the clutch plate of an old Ford, anglers found a tool that could whip the strongest game fish in the ocean.” From the April/May issue of Garden & Gun.
