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In these and most other modern fly-fishing scenarios, a durable reel with a dependable ... from lightweight reels suited to small trout and panfish to large-arbor reels made for tarpon and other ...

and sturdy bail are required to beat a big fish with a spinning reel. One thing I didn’t limit is price. To meet the needs of big game anglers, a spinning reel requires every advanced technology ...

The reels also shift effortlessly between the high (3-to-1) and low (1.6-to-1) gears even under the most extreme conditions. With a long and storied history in big-game fishing, the Fin-Nor Santiago ...

with smaller reels holding similar amounts of 20- 30-pound backing Short, heavy leaders are the norm when fishing for big game, with butts in the 60- to 80-pound range tapering fast to a 20-pound ...

Here in America where bigger is almost always better, big-game fishing ... rods and reels, and so entered the names of Tycoon rods and Fin-Nor reels into the pantheon of fishing lore.