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Mitchell Fishing
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The Mitchell legend...... began in the heart of the Avre valley in Cluses, France. Cluses, however, was not originally famous for the production of fishing reels. As early as 1720, the city was engaged in the art of clock making. By 1848 the city had become so well-known that a prestigious clockmaking school, l'Ecole d'Horlogerie, was established in Cluses by royal decree. Louis Carpano, one of the first graduates of the school, was highly regarded for making fine quality watch works. After working in a Geneva clockworks factory for a few years, Carpano returned to Cluses and formed a partnership in 1868 with Francois Jacottet. Jacottet's clockmaking factory became Carpano's four years later.
In 1902, Mr. Carpano gave the factory to his nephew, Constant Carpano. Clockmaking continued to prosper until WWI when the factory was refitted to produce munitions for the war. After the war, production returned to watch parts and gears. Upon Constant Carpano's death in 1927, a partnership was created among his heirs and son-in-law, Charles Pons. Carpano & Pons became an industrial firm of broad scope making clocks, household appliances, rods, reels, and lures.
Maurice Jacquemin, a Carpano & Pons engineer, was the inventor of the Mitchell reel as we know it today. His goal was to produce a reel which was not only a container to hold line, but a tool which would cast the lure at a great distance with precision and recover the line without tangling. After two years of research, the revolutionary Mitchell 300 was born in 1948. Mr. Pons named the reel in honor of his brother, Mitchel. A marked departure from the reels of its day in mechanics and appearance, the Mitchell 300 was the beginning of a chain reaction that rapidly propelled the company to international renown.
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- Spirit Lake IA
- US 51360
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