Design Objective:Design Objective: Maximize Large Arbor Benefit
History – Traditional Arbor Reels
There are those who minimize the importance of a reel by saying “it just holds line”.
But how a reel stores line has everything to do with performance.
Line stored in deep, narrow reels will develop coil memory; drag tension will increase as line is pulled from the spool on long runs; and line retrieval is an exercise in frustration.
Traditional storage formats can be seen in the reels below. Can you get any narrower and deeper than the wooden example from 1889? But look at the advancements made in design by 1913:
reels were carved from metal, they had standard reel feet, they had counterbalances smaller than your fist, they even came in a box! But they still had deep, narrow storage for line.
And just look at the advancements in small arbor designs in the 98 years since 1913!
The traditional small-arbor storage format, with its unavoidable liabilities, was the state of the art from the beginning of time until the mid-1990’s.
