I bought a used Hardy reel from an auction site years ago, once owned by Russell "Rusty" Chatham-- quite a hombre- great writer, and the duck carnal mix-up raised quite a few eyebrows back then. He probably still has his late father's 16 gauge M12-- He was, in his prime years, once of the best fly casters going- equal in skill to Joan Wulff and Bernard "Lefty" Kreh.
Our TU Chapter in Grand Rapids tried to get him for a Banquet guest speaker, we also tried to get John Voelker- but struck out, had to settle for Ernie Schweibert-- not too shabby either- RWTF