"Cyli" wrote in message
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On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 01:53:51 -0400, GregP
wrote:
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Each reel is different, of course, but what you want to
look for inside the reel is a gear and something like a
plastic or thin metal tab set against it like a baseball
card against the spokes of a bicycle. If you do find
something like that, see whether you can remove it.

Thanks.

On some reels the pawl (the baseball card in Greg's analogy) can be
disengaged by simply turning it......it doesn't need to be removed.
Remember though, that unless there is another braking mechanism or "drag"
disengaging the pawl WILL result in large quantities of line piled up around
your feet and/or snarled line on the spool whenever a pull on the line
causes the spool to spin. The original purpose of the click mechanism was
to prevent just such occurrences. On cheap reels lacking any other
mechanism that is still its function. Where there is another
mechanism.....and you shouldn't have any trouble at all recognizing it if
it's there....you can safely disengage or remove the pawl as long as it
isn't, as in the unusual case Greg mentioned, an integral part of that
mechanism. In general, when there is an adjustable drag mechanism, the
click drag is superfluous and, as has been noted, exists only to announce to
anyone nearby that Moby fish is tearing line off your reel.

Wolfgang