Patent ID: 7293732

Claim:
A spinning reel comprising: a reel unit being adapted to be mounted on a fishing rod; a handle being rotatably attached to said reel unit; a spool being movably mounted to said reel unit to move back and forth relative to said reel unit, said spool having an outer peripheral portion on which fishing line is adapted to be wound and unwound; a rotor being rotatably mounted to said reel unit, said rotor being adapted to wind said fishing line onto said spool in response to rotation of said handle; a plate-shaped guard member having an embedded portion and a protruding portion, said plate-shaped guard member being attached to at least one of said reel unit and said rotor such that said protruding portion protrudes from an outer surface of said at least one of said reel unit and said rotor, said embedded portion being embedded in at least one of said reel unit and said rotor more than said protruding portion protrudes from said outer surface and being embedded more than a lateral width of said plate-shaped guard member, said plate-shaped guard member being configured and arranged such that said protruding portion contacts a flat ground surface when the spinning reel is placed thereon and the entire spinning reel is over said flat ground surface.