center pin reel?

I have to ask a realllly basic question. Just what is meant by a "center
pin fly reel"?
Sully

On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 19:17:30 -0600, Sully wrote:

I have to ask a realllly basic question. Just what is meant by a "center
pin fly reel"?
Sully

Centre pin reels aren't usually fly reels. They're used with very
long rods (noodle rods) and spooled with mono only. Canadians call it
float fishing -- in the UK, it's called "trotting."

Peter

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I have to ask a realllly basic question. Just what is meant by a "center
pin fly reel"?

A centre-pin reel is the oldest and simplest
form of reel: a spool on an axle (with a handle,
we suppose.) Thus all single-action fly reels are of
this type (whether caged or not.)

In tackle stores today, centre-pin reel usually
means reels like those used for mooching
(drifting with herring bait) in salt water. They
are merely bigger and stronger than the
commonest reels of 150 years ago, of the
same design, a spool on an axle.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)

Sully wrote in :

I have to ask a realllly basic question. Just what is meant by a "center
pin fly reel"?
Sully


They're for mono fishing. They have no drag, or an engageable drag. They
are almost free spooling and rotate on a center pin. A talented fisherman
in a drift boat can get a football field of drag free drift with one of
these guys.

Scott

Centre pin reels are single action casting reels of the same basic design as
fly reels. The chief difference is a clutch system is included to disengage
the spool from the drag system to allow casting with weight and to allow
free spoling of line towards the end of the drift. Casting with a centre pin
requires a smooth underhanded sweep of the arms and most often release of
the spool just an instant before the cast is executed.

All of the centre pin reels I am familiar with are what flyfishermen
consider "large arbour" designs. Some like the large Hardy Silex have also
been used as fly reels on double handed rods.

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I have to ask a realllly basic question. Just what is meant by a "center
pin fly reel"?
Sully