Patent ID: 8714470
Filing Date: 2014-05-06
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
1. A fishing reel comprising: a spool rotatably supported between a pair of side plates of a reel body; a driving mechanism disposed on one of the pair of side plates; a guide body disposed front of the spool, the guide body being movable in right-and-left-direction in response to rotation operation of a handle shaft of the driving mechanism so as to cause a fishing line to be wound around the spool; a line guide disposed on the guide body; and a pillar; wherein the line guide is provided with a fishing line guide hole formed in an elongated shape viewed from front of the guide body extending in the right-and-left-direction along an axis of the spool; wherein the fishing line guide hole is provided with a lower inner surface including a slope extending downwardly toward a center portion of the lower inner surface; wherein the pillar is disposed movable in a vertical direction in the vicinity in the anterior posterior direction of the line guide and is provided with a fishing line guide portion disposed along the axis of the spool; and wherein the pillar is configured to be movable between a first position where the fishing line is held in the center portion of the lower inner surface of the fishing line guide hole and a second position retracted from the first position, the pillar taking the first position by moving downwardly for fishing line winding operation so as to cause the fishing line guide portion to guide the fishing line to the center portion of the lower inner surface of the fishing line guide hole, the pillar taking the second position by moving upwardly for fishing line unwinding operation.