What is Fishing reel?
[[File:Baitcaster.jpeg|thumb|right|250px|{{center|A low-profile bait casting reel <br>(gear multiplying)}}]] A '''fishing reel''' is a device attached to a [[fishing rod]] used in winding and unwinding [[fishing line]]. Modern fishing reels are [[design]]ed to help in [[Casting (angling)|casting]] for [[distance]] and [[:wikt:accuracy|accuracy]].<ref>Creative Publishing International, ''Complete Guide to Freshwater Fishing'' (Minnetonka, MN: Creative Publishing International, 2002), p. 56</ref> Reels also retrieve line, usually with a handle. Fishing reels are traditionally used in the [[recreation]]al sport of [[angling]]. They are also used in the sport of [[Competition|competitive]] [[casting (sport)|casting]]. Reels are usually attached to a [[fishing rod]] by some means. However specialized reels are made to be mounted directly to the boat [[gunwale]]s or [[transom (nautical)|transom]]s. The first [[writing]] describing a fishing reel is from about 1100 years ago in [[China]].<ref>Rick Hafele, ''Nymph Fishing Rivers and Streams: A Biologist's View of Taking Trout Below the Surface'' (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2006), p. 1</ref> Fishing reels first appeared in [[England]] around 1650 AD. By the 1760s, [[London]] [[Fishing tackle|tackle shops]] were advertising [[gear]]-retrieved reels. An [[Americans|American]] watchmaker and inventor, [[George W. Snyder]], invented the first gear multiplying reel abut 1810.<ref>Frank Mackie Johnson, ''Forest, Lake and River; the Fishes of New England and Eastern Canada'', Vol. II (Boston, University Press Cambridge, 1902), p. 309</ref> == References == {{reflist}} {{sport-stub}} [[Category:Fishing]] [[Category:Sports equipment]]