Leave it to some scientifico to point out there is no part identified as a "click". That's because the click is a sound that is made by the interaction of the spring, pawl, and gear; but only when the reel is doing what it is designed to do, revolve. So rather than say "Clicking from the spring, pawl, and gear all working together as the spool revolves." which anyone will tell you is a fucking mouthful and a half, some juvenile unintentionally made it easier on us all by shortening it to click and pawl. Can I get an Amen!
Same could be said for right hand wind...click and pawl reels.
Amen, but only to your last sentance.Leave it to some scientifico to point out there is no part identified as a "click". That's because the click is a sound that is made by the interaction of the spring, pawl, and gear; but only when the reel is doing what it is designed to do, revolve. So rather than say "Clicking from the spring, pawl, and gear all working together as the spool revolves." which anyone will tell you is a fucking mouthful and a half, some juvenile unintentionally made it easier on us all by shortening it to click and pawl. Can I get an Amen!
Same could be said for right hand wind...click and pawl reels.
Took a trip to the Bahamas to fish for bonefish. Took an 8 wt fly rod and a Hardy St Aidan reel loaded with a regular - not a tropic specific - WF8F fly line. And caught bonefish to 8 pounds, no problem. What? You think fly fishing is complicated or something?
Although I haven't done so, I'm sure that I could. It's just that using a line holder, like a fly reel, is just so much more convenient. If you've caught a few, you must know that steelhead are among the world's most over-rated gamefish.
Fvck no! If a contemplative angler found "spring and pawl" too much of a mouthful and wanted to identify the reel by the sound it makes instead of some of the key components, he might have suggested calling the reel a "clicker." One word, two syllables. That could have caught on and wouldn't have been terribly inaccurate.
The first steelhead I caught with a Spey rod was a 6 lb hatchery fish on the Grand Ronde, over twenty years ago. I was using a Sage 9140-4 and a giant Redington AL 11/12 drag reel.
You’ve got some really nice reels!
Ummmm, that is what I call my spring and pawl reels; 'clickers.'
Couldn't post this while I was on my phone on the ferry to Bainbridge so when I got home I took these phone pictures. Many years ago I had an elderly customer at the shop who for a number of years rented the cabin on Ralph Caufman's property up The Frying Pan for 3 months each summer. We became good friends although I was probably 50 years his junior. Art Wilson and his wife Mary were longtime friends and angling companions of Joe and Mary Brooks. When Joe passed away in 1972 his wife Mary gave away his cherished equipment to friends he loved fishing with. Thus Art became the owner of Joe's bonefish outfit, one that he used on several early "American Sportsman" tv shows during its iconic 20 year history. One day during the last year Art was alive to fish The Pan he arrived at the shop to give me a gift, a nine foot nine weight Orvis Shooting Star and a JW Young made Beaudex Salmon reel. Here is that reel. Note the highly machined disc drag and space-age materials that Joe relied on to catch multiple bonefish and permit for the cameras. For those of you who believe in click and pawls, strike indicators and have naturally never heard of Joe Brooks I will offer this. You will be rewarded by taking the time to read it.
