Fly Fishing Reels

"The next part of your outfit is the reel. And the reel's function is it holds your line. Fly reels are pretty basic, they are single action most of the time, which means you turn the handle once and the spool goes around once. So, there's not a lot to them. There's usually a handle for you to grab to retrieve your line, and then there's usually some type of drag. That's what this knob is here. This is the drag knob. This is used to increase or decrease the amount of tension that you encounter when you pull the line off the reel, but for the most part, they are pretty simple. They are definitely the simplest reel that you will use in just about any type of fishing, other than maybe a tin can with line wrapped around it."