On gerri's advice, I called LL Bean. While the person I spoke with tried to be helpful, there wasn't much he could do. This is an LL Bean "Angler" reel with the click & pawl drag. They replaced this with the "Angler II" reel with a disk drag a few years ago and he wasn't aware of any way to actually tweak this drag.

Not a big deal. As I said, this was a donation by one of our members for our upcoming banquet and as a rule there really isn't much adjustment with click and pawl drags anyway. If we don't get it working any better than it is now we aren't out too much.