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All Things Fishing

What reel should you buy?

All Things Fishing

Eli Cummins

Sports, Wilderness

5.0695 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

WHAT REEL SHOULD YOU BUY? In this episode of all things fishing I tackle a common question what type of reel should you buy?

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, welcome to the All Things Fishing Podcast.

0:10.0

A podcast for each week I talk about just that.

0:14.0

This is All Things Fishing.

0:18.0

Hey everybody, I'm excited to be recording the seventh episode of the All Things Fishing

0:22.1

podcast this week. This week, I'm actually recording it a week early. I'm recording it the same

0:27.6

week I recorded my last episode, episode six. I'm just setting the published date for a different

0:33.8

date because next week on Monday I will be backpacking, we're section hacking the AT, so I think it's going to be pretty fun, but I will not be able to put another

0:41.4

episode out on Monday, so I'm just pre-recording this, and hopefully it should be published

0:46.1

on Monday. So this week, I just wanted to give you some advice on what type of reel you should

0:52.8

buy. So this episode I'm going from easiest to

0:56.2

hardish, from easiest to use to hardest. I'll just buzz over them real quick. There's four main

1:02.9

types of reels. Obviously there's a lot of like models, a lot of companies make a lot of these.

1:09.8

So first off, spincast. It's like really just for beginners.

1:13.6

Next is a spinning, which is just a great all-round type of reel.

1:17.6

Um, professionals use them. Uh, people like me, I like to use them.

1:21.6

Then beginners use them.

1:23.6

Uh, they're just really easy to use. I really like them.

1:26.6

My favorite all-round type of reel.

1:29.4

Then bait casting, which is intermediate to professional. Then casting, which is really just for

1:37.1

professionals. So, spin cast, oh, so a spin cast reel, definitely, if you're a beginner, I would suggest getting a spin cast reel, specifically a Zebco reel.

1:49.0

Zepco makes some really good spin cast reels. They make okay spinning reels, but really Zepco primarily is just a spin cast real company.

1:58.0

So yeah, Zepco makes some really good spin cast reels. If you're a beginner, I would suggest getting a spin cast reel. Next, and this is my favorite type of reel of all time, the spinning reel. So a lot of good companies make spinning reels. Ugly Stick makes some really good spinning reels. Shimono makes some really good spinning reels, Shimano makes some pretty good spinning reels.

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