Abstract: An improved spinning-reel particularly adapted to long fly-fishing casts with a shooting-head attached to trailing monofilament. The reel comprises a cylindrical solid shaft, with spool on one end, passing concentrically through and rotatably mounted in a hollow shaft, with bail on one end, rotatably mounted in a gear casing; so enabling the spool to rotate inside a stationary bail, and the bail to rotate about a non-rotating spool. The solid and hollow shafts are each driven by a reciprocally mounted gear thereon that may be axially engaged, by an externally controlled common drive selector, with either its pawl or the single, centrally located, crank-drive gear; so that one gear, at a fixed distance from the other, may be driven while the other is retained by its pawl. A rotating spool inside a stationary bail provides twist-free winding, storage and unwinding of a relatively massive, stiff, large-diameter shooting-head.

Abstract: A non-rotatable arbor, fastened by belt to waist-line of fisherman and used in combination with conventional fly-reel, onto which shooting-monofilament is wound by hand for axial departure on subsequent forward cast, thus enabling much longer casts by eliminating need for shooting-head during forward trajectory to pull coils of said monofilament, conventionally suspended from mouth or left-hand of wading fisherman, from water having appreciable viscosity and surface-tension.

Abstract: Line from a conventional reel on a fly-rod proceeds to a line-guiding device, a line-tensioning device and then to a fixed, non-rotatable arbor onto which it is wound by hand. The line is free to uncoil from and axially leave said arbor during the forward cast. The line-guiding device, line-tensioning device and arbor are secured about the waist-line of a fly-fisherman so that the axis of said arbor is directed suitably forward and upward, with the line-guiding device and line-tensioning device being at suitable distances from the arbor.