Fishing reel

A fishing reel is a device attached to a fishing rod used in winding and unwinding fishing line.  

Modern fishing reels are designed to help in casting for distance and accuracy.Creative Publishing International, Complete Guide to Freshwater Fishing (Minnetonka, MN: Creative Publishing International, 2002), p. 56 Reels also retrieve line, usually with a handle. Fishing reels are traditionally used in the recreational sport of angling. They are also used in the sport of competitive casting. Reels are usually attached to a fishing rod by some means. However specialized reels are made to be mounted directly to the boat gunwales or transoms. 

The first writing describing a fishing reel is from about 1100 years ago in China.Rick Hafele, Nymph Fishing Rivers and Streams: A Biologist's View of Taking Trout Below the Surface (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2006), p. 1 Fishing reels first appeared in England around 1650 AD. By the 1760s, London tackle shops were advertising gear-retrieved reels. An American watchmaker and inventor, George W. Snyder, invented the first gear multiplying reel abut 1810.Frank Mackie Johnson, Forest, Lake and River; the Fishes of New England and Eastern Canada, Vol. II (Boston, University Press Cambridge, 1902), p. 309

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