Patent ID: 6942171

Claim:
A fishing reel, comprising: a reel body; a spool rotatable in the reel body by a spindle, the spindle having a rotational axis and a retaining portion; a handle; a transmission device having a first end coupled with the handle and a second end coupled with the spindle for transferring power imparted by a user from the handle to the spool, wherein the transmission device has a gear rod at the second end thereof, the gear rod having a hole through which the spindle extends and a slot having two opposite sidewalls to be engaged and disengaged with the retaining portion of the spindle; and a clutch device for moving the gear rod during rotation between a first position where the slot of the gear rod is disengaged from the retaining portion of the spindle, and a second position where the slot of the gear rod is engaged with the retaining portion of the spindle; wherein the retaining portion of the spindle has two planar contact faces extending parallel to the rotational axis of the spindle, a cylindrical surface concentric with the rotational axis which connects the two planar contact faces and two guiding faces extending parallel to the rotational axis that are provided respectively at opposite sides of the retaining portion and respectively connect the contact faces; wherein the sidewalls of the slot first respectively and slidably engage the guiding faces and thereafter respectively and fixedly engage the contact faces to rotate the spool as the gear rod moves along the direction of the rotational axis to fully engage the retaining portion.