most you've spent on a reel

Lord Paul of Sheffield · Feb 28, 2012

just over the £100 for a reel is my most expensive spend - not much but I don't own big pit reels having no use for them

sam vimes · Feb 28, 2012

About £150 IIRC, but it certainly isn't a pit reel. I do have three pit reels but they aren't that big and they weren't that expensive either.

Peter Jacobs · Feb 28, 2012

I changed to 3 of these about 2 years ago for my Carp fishing from my old Shimano reels:

Daiwa Infinity X 5000/5500 BR Reels - Only £399.00 - Poingdestres

They are excellent reels, great line lay, superb drag and the 'baitrunner' feature is correctly inline when engaged unlike my old Shimano reels.

itsfishingnotcatching · Feb 28, 2012

Just under £90 for a Stradic

maceo · Feb 28, 2012

73 clams on a Shimano Aspire 3000 (as Sam will know!).

I've been impressed with it so far, but it's early days. See how it goes on.

Like the fightin' drag II feature on it and the smoothness immensley.

mol · Feb 28, 2012

Generally I think you can get a very good reel that will last a good few seasons in the £75-125 bracket. It's when you buy something specialised that you need to spend more and thats probably because of supply and demand. My single most expensive reel was £180 and that was for a Abu Revo Toro multiplier

Jeff Woodhouse · Feb 28, 2012

Bit of a toss up on this one - $189 on a Quantum bait casting reel from the US or would it be £120 on a Kingpin centrepin (now selling for £350 or more) many years ago.

Peter Jacobs · Feb 28, 2012

Ops, forgot about the GBP 250.00 on the Purist II Centrepin . . . .

A beautiful piece of kit that I'll treasure forever . . . . . . . . . . .

markhib · Feb 28, 2012

I hate to be pedantic but that's still £149 less than the Daiwa, isn't it?
Mark

Red Army · Feb 28, 2012

I forgot what I exactly paid but I'd say about £150-200 each on a couple of Daiwa TDX 2508

barbelboi · Feb 28, 2012

£240 some years ago for a Youngs BJ Lightweight (RRP £299).

Never paid over £100 for stradics (my most expensive f/s reels) - not bought one for at least six years though.

Jerry

mark brailsford 2 · Feb 28, 2012

Hardy ultalight fly reel...££££
fixed spool, Shimano 4000D Baitrunner...£140, just a fiver more than my old stradic front drag!

Mark

Peter Jacobs · Feb 28, 2012

Mark's mention of the Hardy Fly Rell reminded me:

£475.00 on my Abel 5N

http://www.fishingmagic.com/forums/members/peter-jacobs-albums-fly-fishing-picture429-sage-abel.html

Just realised that there is over a grand laying in the grass there . . . . . . soon adds up don't it!

alchemist · Feb 28, 2012

£450 for 1915 Allc0ck Aerial.

xenon · Feb 28, 2012

£250 for a Youngs "BJ" pin-expect it will see me out, so value for money. £180 for a Shimano Twinpower 2500-8 years old and seems as good as when I first got it, despite a fair bit of use.

terry m · Feb 28, 2012

Peter Jacobs said:
I changed to 3 of these about 2 years ago for my Carp fishing from my old Shimano reels:

Daiwa Infinity X 5000/5500 BR Reels - Only £399.00 - Poingdestres

They are excellent reels, great line lay, superb drag and the 'baitrunner' feature is correctly inline when engaged unlike my old Shimano reels.

I know exactly what you mean regarding BR lever alignment, but as Shimano were the first, I would suggest that their system is the 'correct' system and the Daiwa impersonator is incorrect.....:wh

For me a set of 3 XTEAs and a set of 3 5500 XTB Ultegras. If it's fixed spool, for me it's gotta be a Shimano.

At time of purchase they were something like £110 - 130 each ! 'Tis only money eh!

sam vimes · Feb 28, 2012

terry m said:
I know exactly what you mean regarding BR lever alignment, but as Shimano were the first, I would suggest that their system is the 'correct' system and the Daiwa impersonator is incorrect.....:wh

Just to confuse the issue, Shimano now have a few baitrunners in the range that work the other way to "normal". The baby baitrunners like the 4000Ds, XTFAs etc definitely work in the opposite way to most Shimano baitrunners and I believe that the new XTA Longcasts may be the same.

S-Kippy · Feb 28, 2012

I can't honestly recall paying more than about a ton for a reel...apart from one of my pins which was [I think] £120 second hand. I'm afraid I think some of them are vastly overpriced unless you are using them in extreme situations which I never do.

I remember some numpty at Sportfish trying to flog me a £500 Abel Fly reel. His pitch was that I could "back my car over it and it would still work". I told him that I'd stick with my £50 Scierra's on the basis that I could back my car over them 9 times and still be 50 nicker in front.

God I hate that shop. Not being Lord or Sir anything I seem to become instantly invisible as soon as I walk in.

KEVIN SULLIVAN 2 · Feb 28, 2012

Most I spent was£800.00 for two of Gary Mills Centrepins was worth every penny (just don't tell her in door LOL)

sam vimes · Feb 28, 2012

S-Kippy said:
I remember some numpty at Sportfish trying to flog me a £500 Abel Fly reel. His pitch was that I could "back my car over it and it would still work". I told him that I'd stick with my £50 Scierra's on the basis that I could back my car over them 9 times and still be 50 nicker in front.

I've never understood why fly reels even need to cost so much. There's nothing to them. They are little more than somewhere to store line. What added function, that actually benefits fishing, does a £500 fly reel have over a £10 one?

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