Abstract: A fly fishing reel comprises a large diameter spool having a broad width and a shallow line storage depth. The reel may have an arm-like body and a unique mounting member which, when attached to a fishing rod, positions the perimeter of the spool across a longitudinal axis of the rod. In an additional aspect, a drag mechanism is provided in a center hub of the spool. The drag mechanism is a unidirectional dual cone drag mechanism. The drag mechanism comprises a pair of opposing frictional conical race members, an inner race member inserted into an outer race member. The race members are biased into contact to create drag on the rotating spool. A roller clutch is utilized to produce a unidirectional drag mechanism. The roller clutch is configured to lock thereby causing relative rotation of the race members creating frictional drag only when the spool is rotated in the "reeling out direction.

Abstract: A reel for fishing is capable of mounting a fishing rod in its leading end in the direction in which a fishline is played out. The reel for fishing has a reel body which is provided with a spool on which the fishline is wound up, a handle to be driven to rotate the spool in the fishline-winding-up direction, and a grip portion to be held integrally with the reel body at the time of actual fishing. An opening is formed in the reel body, which opening is capable of smoothly thumbing the spool along the direction of the thumb which is gripping and holding the grip portion.

Abstract: A fly-fishing reel which has succeeded in overcoming such disadvantages of conventional ones that because a reel is attached to a rod through a rod connector having a constant thickness in the longitudinal direction, the center of gravity of the reel at which the reel weight is applied to the rod coincides with the center of the rod connector and is relatively away from a grip portion of the rod rearward, and hence the weight balance is not satisfactory in operation of swinging the rod to fly a fishing line. The inventive reel comprises a holder provided with a pair of flanges for guiding a rotating member, at least one line guide provided between the pair of flanges, a joint base provided between the pair of flanges and located below the line guide, and a rod connector having a joining flat portion which is inclined and joined to a recessed flat portion of the joint base. The center of gravity of the reel is shifted toward the side of a grip portion.

Abstract: In a spinning reel for fishing, a fishline guide roller is rotatably supported on a bail support arm pivotably mounted on a rotor. The guide roller has a flattened shape such that a ratio of an axial length of the roller relative to a diameter thereof falls within 0.10-0.40. Further, the guide roller is formed with a narrow fishline guide groove so that a ratio of an axial length of the fishline guide groove relative to an axial length of the roller falls within 0.05-0.35. It is possible to make a fishline guide roller small in weight and size and to restrict axial motion of a fishline along the guide roller which, among other advantages, reduces line twist in the fishline.

Abstract: In a spinning reel for fishing, a plurality of line guide portions are formed in a line roller, so that one of the fishing line guide portions can be selected and used by changing the mounting position or mounting direction of the line roller with respect to a support member. The spinning reel for fishing with such line roller is able to cope with or use a wide variety of fishing lines having different diameters.

Abstract: A double bearing type reel for fishing in which a series of operations from changing over the clutch to thumbing can be smoothly, quickly and easily conducted. A clutch changeover operation member is provided to conduct a changeover operation of the clutch mechanism by being displaced in the longitudinal direction of the reel. The operational member is arranged at a position at which the clutch changeover operation member can be operated by a finger tip of a thumb when the thumb is extended diagonally from a hand of a fisher man who holds the reel body. A finger setting section is arranged in the operation member in the direction of diagonally extending thumb of the hand of the fisher man holding the reel body in such a manner that the finger setting section diagonally cross the longitudinal direction of the reel body, so that the operation member for changing over the clutch is operated when the thumb is set in the finger setting section.

Abstract: A fly fishing reel comprises a large diameter spool having a broad width and a shallow line storage depth. The reel may have an arm-like body and a unique mounting member which, when attached to a fishing rod, positions the perimeter of the spool across a longitudinal axis of the rod. In an additional aspect, a drag mechanism is provided in a center hub of the spool. The drag mechanism is a unidirectional dual cone drag mechanism. The drag mechanism comprises a pair of opposing frictional conical race members, an inner race member inserted into an outer race member. The race members are biased into contact to create drag on the rotating spool. A roller clutch is utilized to produce a unidirectional drag mechanism. The roller clutch is configured to lock thereby causing relative rotation of the race members creating frictional drag only when the spool is rotated in the "reeling out direction.

Abstract: In a fishing spinning reel, a supporting member having a fishing line guide is swingably supported on an end portion of a rotor so that the supporting member is placed alternately in a line take-up state and in a line let-out state. The outer configuration of the supporting member is formed such that a portion of the supporting member, which is from its base portion to the end portion having the fishing line guide, is inclined towards a spool. The spinning reel is free from the entanglement of the fishing line and is able to maintain the rotation of the rotor balanced.

Abstract: A handle of a fishing reel in which, even if a fishline is twined around a handle knob, the fishline can be removed easily there from. The handle knob also can be held easily outside thereof with the fingertips. In the handle of the fishing reel, a handle knob is rotatably mounted on the end portion of a handle arm. The shape of each of the hold surfaces of the handle knob to be held with the thumb and forefinger during a fishline winding operation is formed such that it is tapered from the base portion side of the handle arm toward the outer end portion side thereof. Accordingly, when the fishline is twined around the handle knob, the fishline can be removed from the twined state thereof. Also, the handle knob can be grasped easily from a position outward of the knob with the angler's fingertips.