Not many people are aware, but its now become quite popular to collect vintage fly reels and to build a vintage fly reel collection as a hobby. The fly fishing reel has an interesting history, and it is fascinating that as a hand-powered machine, the fishing reel has evolved so much, yet is still powered [...]
The automatic fly fishing reel was developed to allow the angler to retrieve the fly fishing line automatically without having to turn a handle on the reel. Therefore an automatic fly fishing reel does not any have handles, and to retrieve the fly fishing line an angler must press a trigger, which will release a [...]
The reel is less important for fly fishing as opposed to bait (or sea) fishing. The fly reel is not used at all for casting, and is often just used to recover and store fly line and backing not in immediate use. Different fly reels should be used for different types of fly fishing, according [...]
