Patent ID: 7628348

Claim:
A reel unit of a spinning reel, an upper part of the reel unit being mounted to a fishing rod and arranged to reel out a fishing line forward, comprising: a reel body having a variety of mechanisms mounted in an interior thereof, the reel body having an interlocking groove on an upper rear surface, the interlocking groove being exposed to the outside; an attachment portion arranged to be mounted to the fishing rod, the attachment portion having a mounting hole opened rearward, the attachment portion being formed integral with and extending forward from the reel body in an oblique upward direction; a first cover member having a first cover body, a pivot shaft portion, and an interlocking protrusion, the first cover body being mounted to the reel body so as to cover the upper side of the rear part of the reel body from the lower side of the rear part of the attachment portion, the pivot shaft portion being formed on the upper side of a front part of the first cover body so as to protrude frontward, the pivot shaft portion being pivotally mounted to the mounting hole, the interlocking protrusion being formed on a bottom part of the first cover body, the interlocking protrusion being arranged to interlock with the interlocking groove when the pivot shaft portion is mounted to the mounting hole and the first cover body is pivoted with respect to the axis of the mounting hole; and a second cover member including a second cover body that being mounted to the reel body so as to cover the lower side of the rear part of the reel body from the lower side of the rear part of the first cover member.