In preparing this article we were faced with several
seemingly insoluble problems. The first was for whom
should this article be written? For the amateur fly
fisherman, who may only understand a little of the
fine art of fly fishing, or for the professional who
may well be experienced enough to be extremely discerning
about the selection of his tackle. We have decided to
aim the article at the amateur and hope that you experts
do not take offense, indeed you may pick some useful
information up too.
The second problem was from which point of view we should
consider the problem, from the position of a manufacturer
of fly-fishing reels, or from the point of view of direct
consumer, i.e. the fisherman. Fortunately, this problem
was not so great as we are both anyway! It was
difficultly enough, as given this article concerns problems
and directions of development of all kinds of fly fishing
reels, and as fly fishers, we are limited to narrower
circle of our own fishing predilections and experience.
Also, in the process of writing this article we have tried
to avoid to run into some complications, with which many
publications on fishing themes suffer, in our view.
Reading such kind of the next ‘publication’ called, for
example, The Encyclopedia of the Modern Fisherman
and with surprise we found out the information, familiar
up to date, at times of centenary prescription, with
repeating from one year to the next year, from edition
to edition, mistakes. The only advantage of such
kinds of ‘publications’ is - it would be desirable to
desert it as much more far and as much more faster go
fishing.
On that, likely, there are enough of introductory words,
as we begin to remind preliminary apologizing speech,
let’s say, if nothing will be understood, or it is not
pleasant, so remember, we warned you…
So, what by itself should the modern fly reel represent?
Is there any problems in designing the modern fly reels?
In what direction should move their development? We hope,
that, answering on these questions, we could help you to
better orient in a huge variety of various fly reels made
by very talented craftsmen and by huge well-known fishing
tackle corporations.
Originally published December 02, 2001 on Fly Anglers Online by Alex Kaplun and Vladimir Rachenko.