Abstract: A fishing reel, including a frame; a reel seat disposed in the frame and including a central through hole; a spool disposed on the reel seat; a main shaft slidably disposed in the central through hole, and including a first end and a second end; a roller disposed on the first end of the main shaft; a first gear and a second gear both disposed on the second end of the main shaft; a handle disposed on the frame and connected to the first gear; a release button disposed on the frame; a first pressure spring disposed between the second gear and the main shaft; a line guide seat disposed on the roller; a line hanging rod disposed on the line guide seat; an elastic member disposed between the line guide seat and the roller; and a cam unit disposed on one end of the reel seat.

Abstract: A fishing reel designed to retain rotational functionality under load. The reel has a spool and spinner head assembly. A first pin arm is pivotally mounted to a plate portion of the spinner head assembly. A plate facing surface of the first pin arm has at least a portion that defines a planar surface from the first pivot end to the first pin arm for providing deflection resistance. A first pick-up pin selectively extends the first pin arm through a first pick-up pin orifice in a wall portion of the spinner head assembly. A first pick-up sleeve is rotationally mounted on the first pick-up pin for engaging fishing line when fishing line is wound onto said spool.

Abstract: A fishing reel eliminates line twist as the fishing line is taken on or off of the spool by utilizing a non-rotating nose member and line pick-up member in combination with a rotational spool and a line-engaging control mechanism which at the beginning of the cast retracts the nose member against a forward end of the housing to capture the fishing line therebetween and, toward the end of the cast, a separate release mechanism manually releases the nose member to permit the fishing line to play freely off of the spool. The release mechanism may be a manual or automatic casting control mechanism which is mounted just forwardly of the handle portion of a fishing rod and is operable to return the nose member to an open position in response to a forward casting motion of the rod and reel.

Abstract: An open-faced spin-casting reel utilizes a weighted member which in response to a casting motion will automatically release the line from the spool, and drag control mechanism is incorporated directly into the reeling mechanism off of the crankshaft to control the amount of drag on the line as it is reeled onto the spool.