Old battered reels required!

[Paul Arden]

I might be tempted to pay more if they lasted longer What I liked about STH apart from inventing the cartridge system they had some higher quality reels that could be loaded with a cartridge. I have always been a fan of the cartridge system since my reservoir days. For Stillwater fishing I carry four lines as a minimum.

Something I’ve been thinking about designing is a reel with a more practical braking system. Turning a knob on the other side of the handle while fighting a fish is not the worlds best design .

Cheers, Paul

[sms]

Integrated reel foot is something I don’t like. You ruin that and you ruin the reel.

If you ruin a reel foot on normal, you just swap that.

[Lasse Karlsson]

Only if it's screwed on, and not glued or riveted on, and you can get a replacement

Got four plastic reels where the reel foot is broken, since they are cast in one go, no replacing the reel foot. ..

I'm with Sakari here!

Cheers
Lasse

[Graeme H]

Something I’ve been thinking about designing is a reel with a more practical braking system. Turning a knob on the other side of the handle while fighting a fish is not the worlds best design .

Cheers, Paul

I've seen a few reels with the drag knob on the same side as the handle, inside the spool's centre. I've been rather fond of my knuckles so far and have never seen the attraction of putting my knuckles in the way of a handle that's rapidly rotating as a fish runs, just so I could adjust the drag.

I'll stick with the drag control on the other side thanks ... Just make it large enough to be useful and I'm a happy chappy.

There was a failed attempt at a lever drag on a reel released in Oz a few years back (Rovex). That had potential but the implementation was poor.

Cheers,
Graeme

[Paul Arden]

Interesting. Do you have a link please Graeme? I don’t think the screw knob works at all - all you do is undo it to pull line out and reset it for the fish to pull line out. I can think of quite a few ways that can be improved.

Cheers, Paul

[Graeme H]

Bauer SST3

https://www.bauerflyreel.com/fly-reels/sst-reels/

I can't find many more on searching, but there's one for you.

I'm happiest with reels that have "one-turn" drags, so zero effect to full on within 1 turn of the drag knob. The Mako reels are a good example. I've got a few reels that are similar, but I'm fishing salt mostly. I see many of the freshwater reels have many revolutions of the drag knob from "off" to "full", presumably to offer finer adjustment of the drag settings.

The Mako works best for me because that large knob is easily set to a given and repeatable drag setting within that single turn. Costs a fair bit for the privilege.

Cheers,
Graeme

[Will]

Not cheap but a really interesting design; quite a few salmon fishing friends of mine swear by these.

[Nick]

So if you design a reel to go with the hot torpedo, what are you going to call it? The Depth charge? The Nutz?

[Paul Arden]

Decisions decisions

[Viking Lars]

It should be, and will be eventually, of course, The Dog's Bollocks :-).

L