What Brand Fly Reels???

[Latebite]

I see Cabelas has a composite fly reel on sale for $9.99 down from $19.99ish. Has anyone used them?? What are you guys using? I have never used one so I do not know what to look for................

[craigthor]

Okuma SLV 23 is what I'm using for my poles along with an Okuma SLV 45 for my outside perch rod. Large arbor and super smooth in the hand.

Craig

[Idahogator]

Do a search on Amazon.com, sports and outdoors, fly reels and look over the many (4 pages) available.
It's amazing how the price varies from $7.28 to hundreds of dollars. Good luck.

[slipperybob]

I have an Okuma Vashon 3/4, but they no longer make it.

[oc]

I'm using plain jane Shakespeares and and a Cabellas Cahill.,I prefer the Shakespeares after flipping over the clicker.

[pete/ny]

EBAY- fishon bearcub flyreel. Weighs 3.5 ozs. and tiny diameter of only 2.75 inches. All metal.

[bassrat]

Okuma SLV 23 is what I'm using for my poles along with an Okuma SLV 45 for my outside perch rod. Large arbor and super smooth in the hand.

Craig

got a couple SLV's myself...like em'...also have 2 ross flystart 1's...if you can get past the noise of the clicker (in both directions), i think the ross has a smoother drag start-up.  just my 2 cents. 

[walleye tattoo]

Bought some for $12 bucks in cabelas fly shop.Cabelas Cahill Fly reel.

[Ironeagle]

they would hold alot of line>.. do you guys back them before spooling with mono?i have a $250 orvis cfo fly reel and that would look very nice.(got it on sale) its the small for 2wt fly liine.

[Idahogator]

For a bargain, check Amazon.com, for a South Bend Cahill Crystal River #CR-0002A. Has an adjustable tension drag and goes for $7.28. Very light weight with a graphite spool.

[fishmastaZERO]

Check out the hobbs creek reels from bass pro I got one on my fly rod good reel..

[DasRottweiler]

I would think a larger diameter spool is what you would be looking for. Some guys recommend small UL Flyreels which are smaller in diameter. You sacrifice line takeup/reel in speed with the fly reels for a straight uncoiled line, why would you use a small diameter reel and sacrifice even more speed and perhaps be rite where ya were with the coiling line/spinning reel? I would and am going to buy a liteweight saltwater large diameter reel , fill it up with backing and only about 20ft of powerpro and a 3ft leader and limit my flyreel fishing to 15FOW or less.

[icejunky]

ive always liked okumas reels so I stuck with them

[slipperybob]

The centerpin reels are about 5 inches in diameter compared to your freshwater fly reels that are pretty much about 3-4 inches in diameter.  For ice fishing, depending on how you hold it, it may be preferential to be able to palm the reel.  That's why the preference for the smaller fly reels.

[Latebite]

I ended up getting a Three Forks reel from Cabelas, I was not planing to put backing on it until I measured the spool & figured out I would get an extra 2.3 inches per turn by filling it up more (9.42" compaired to 7.07") So now its off to the store again! The reel seems to have a very nice drag system on it

[Martian]

 you will want to put backing on or you will put a ton of line on. frankly, I wind 25 lb. mono, or whatever else I have, and don't have much use for. I use the holes on the side of my reel to measure how much backing to put on. you will probably never get down to the backing. In the old days, I used to take my mini spinning reels, and wrap cuk tape around the spool to build the spool up, it seemed I would put 120 yds. on my spool every year, and maybe use 20 of it. So now when I find 100 yd. spool of whatever I like, I can fill 3-4 reels. that last 50 -75yds. gets so coiled, you could never use it. Ever see those bargin spools of fish lineie. 25lbs, 300 yds, $4.95 ? perfect backing.

[copperjohn]

I just use some of my spare fly reels - leaving the fly line and backing on.  Just tie my 100 ft of ice line on instead of leader/tippet.  Get year round versatility without the added expense of "uni-tasking overhead".  Now if I can only figure out how to jig with a 9 ft 5 weight...

Seriously, I don't use drags on Fly reels anyway so my $10 Martin does the same for me as my $100 Ross. I do like the large arbors of late and wally world sells a cortland large arbor that seems descent. I don't care to own overpriced equipment that doesn't give a practical cost/advantage benefit.  Yea, I'm "frugal".

Unfortunately, most of my perch waters are over 35 feet deep so the fly reels aren't the fastest on the drop.  I'll often use them to finess a slow bite and switch to the fast dropping spinning combo when the bite picks up and they are less  picky.