Learn About the Redington Cross Water Reel

Video Transcript

" Hi, I’m Jim from Zoar Outdoor on behalf of expertvillage.com. In this segment we’re going to be talking about fishing gear and especially fly fishing. It’s a Redington Cross water, it’s a composite reel which means that it won’t rust. It’s a fairly inexpensive reel, it’s only about $40 and it’s what’s called a large arbor. You’ll see that the difference between this reel is there’s a big space here and there’s no space on this, which is a small arbor reel. The large arbor reel is generally considered to be a better choice because you get more a line in with each revolution on your turn. Another thing to look for in a fly reel, this also by the way is a composite reel, this is an Okuma model, this also is about a $40 reel. You can see I’m steering you in the direction of composite because its durable it doesn’t rust, it’s inexpensive and also because it’s got all the same features as this $300 machined aluminum reel. One of those features which is very nice and would be essential to you is that you can change spools on these reels, in case you turn this little lever and off it comes. So I’ve got a sink tip line on that I just took off that is, and if I wanted to change over to a different kind of line such as a floating line, I just flick it in and it’s good to go. All reels have a drag system, and what the drag system does is it adjusts the tension of the line going out so that if a fish is taking line off the reel, you can make it easy or you can make it hard by tightening the drag you make it harder. By backing it off you make it easier, so if you’ve got a very light strength tippet, a nice easy drag will protect that tippet and not break the line. So my recommendation to you is that you look at the composite reels, they’re very inexpensive, they’re very useful and they have all the essential functions, the drag, the large arbor and good capacity of line and they won’t rust. "