I am delighted to have been able to brighten your day with some images. Research is currently underway concerning the oldest CAP reels. In addition, the Rochard family is examining old letters to find more information, we find, in one of them, from the 50s, written by Emile Rochard to Jules Gumprich...

Dear reel enthusiasts, I am taking the liberty of creating this topic to share with you some photographs of a reel created for the millionth Mitchell reel, you will see that it is almost identical to those offered to Otto and Jules Gumprich, except that this one was given to Emile Rochard, owner of ...

Good morning Sandman, I can't answer you with certainty, not having more details on this subject, however logically the first reel put on sale would be the first ordered to Carpano & Pons, that of Léon Rochard, therefore the round body reel. Also, a paper from "Au fil de l'eau" indicat...

Dear fishing reel enthusiasts I would like to introduce you here to the history of La Canne à Pêche, one of the first partner companies of Carpano & Pons in terms of manufacturing and selling reels, as well as the company that had the monopoly on sales of the Mitchell reel in the early days foll...

Sorry, I made a mistake, it is not M.O.B. compagny, but M.O.P. compagny.

We have indeed exchanged a certain amount of information with Rolands and Marc Rattez. What is certain is, according to the evidence of the text by Jean Huillet published in 1941 and prepared in 1939, Les leurres légers , that the CAP 2 reel is attested in 1939, but, according to private notarial do...

Merci beaucoup de votre intervention Rolands, Having received the sources mentioned above and having undertaken to make known the history of La Cann à Pêche to Angers Archives only recently (due to old family feuds and the unwillingness of my predecessors to share it which explain the few sources fo...

Simone Baschirotto, neighbors from beyond the seas, dear fishing and Mitchell reels enthusiasts, I would like to intervene to give my family's version (that of the creators and owners of La Canne à Pêche from 1931 to 1960) and to answer some of questions above first. In a second time, I would like t...