Fixing

Your fishing rod spinning reel has a bail mechanism that allows the fishing line to spool backward (in) and forwards (out). When you cast your line, you need the fishing line to spool out. However, fighting a fish mustn’t spool out so far that you lose your fishing line to the fish. Every spinning reel …

Among the many problems anglers face with their equipment–broken rods, twisted lines, snagging lures–perhaps the most serious is a damaged fishing reel. As an angler, I find it tremendously comforting to know how to fix my damaged fishing reel. For one, fishing reels get damaged all the time (it’s more-or-less inevitable), and for another, it …