The presently disclosed subject matter relates to a fishing reel attached to a fishing rod. The disclosed reel has no spool, but instead includes a canister that stores fishing line in an orderly free state via a crank attached to pinch rollers. The fishing line moves to storage by passing through the pinch rollers into the canister. The line entering storage curls to left or right dependent only on line memory, and stacks against the outer walls and to the rear in an orderly fashion. Further, the line is also capable of being extracted from the canister when the pinch rollers are opened. For example, the inertia of a fishing lure thrown by a fishing rod extracts free line from the canister at the same velocity as the moving lure. As a result, synchronization of the lure and fishing line occurs regardless of wind conditions. The problem of line backlash is eliminated. In addition, the free state of the fishing line eliminates the problem of line twist since the line memory chooses the direction of curl in the canister independently.

A baitcaster includes a spool, a guide member, and a line guide mechanism. The spool is configured to be driven to take up a fishing line. The guide member is configured to transition between a first state for let out of the fishing line and a second state for take up of the fishing line. The guide member configured to engage the fishing line at a contact point and guide the fishing line to the spool from the contact point when in the second state. The guide member is configured to be driven to rotate to reciprocatively translate the contact point along a length of the guide member. The line guide mechanism is configured to transition the guide member between the first state and the second state in response to a user input.

A gear mechanism for a fishing reel includes a drive gear, a handle, and a vibration damper. The drive gear includes a gear having a prescribed gear diameter, and a drive gear shaft rotated together with the gear and having a smaller dimension than the prescribed gear diameter. The handle rotates the drive gear shaft. The vibration damper is disposed between the drive gear shaft and the handle, and dampens the transmission of the vibration of the drive gear.

A gear mechanism for a fishing reel includes a drive gear, a handle, and a vibration damper. The drive gear includes a gear having a prescribed gear diameter, and a drive gear shaft rotated together with the gear and having a smaller dimension than the prescribed gear diameter. The handle rotates the drive gear shaft. The vibration damper is disposed between the drive gear shaft and the handle, and dampens the transmission of the vibration of the drive gear.

The present invention discloses a magnetic damping mechanism of a fishing reel, including a carrier having a magnet, a damping disc disposed on reel shaft and being rotatable together with the reel shaft, an adjustment knob partially exposed out of the side cover, a driving member engaged with the adjustment knob, and a base connected to the driving member. The base has a through hole for receiving the damping disc; a main spring, which enables the rocker arm to always have a trend to rotate away from the damping disc, is disposed on the base. When the magnetic lines are cut and the induced current is generated when the damping disc rotates together with the reel, the rocker arm is drawn close to the damping disc in the axial direction, to generate a greater damping force. That is, the faster the reel rotates, the more the rocker arm is drawn.

A fishing reel centrifugal brake assembly is keyed to a spool. The assembly retains slidable brake shoes that extend to contact a ring and speed adjust shoes that extend to contact a conical surface. Brake shoe channels are received on brake assembly rails. Speed adjust shoes apply centrifugal force against the conical surface to move the assembly axially when rotated. The brake assembly is urged away from the brake ring and towards the spool at lower rotational speeds. Braking resulting from brake shoes/brake ring contact is adjustable by a control dial that defines a camming surface that moves the brake ring axially to position a smaller or larger diameter portion of the brake ring adjacent to the brake shoes. Frame springs press the brake ring against the camming surface. A brake spring retainer maintains frame spring orientation when springs are compressed, which reduces the possible of reel jams.

A hook keeper configured to be mounted on a fishing reel includes a locking part and a holding part. The locking part includes a locking portion, a hole penetrating the locking portion and a slit extending from the hole to an outside surface of the locking part and extending from a first end surface to a second end surface of the locking part in a central axial direction of the hole. The holding part is configured to hold the locking part and has a joining part configured to mount the holding part on the fishing reel.

A fishing reel designed to retain rotational functionality under load. The reel has a spool and spinner head assembly. A first pin arm is pivotally mounted to a plate portion of the spinner head assembly. A plate facing surface of the first pin arm has at least a portion that defines a planar surface from the first pivot end to the first pin arm for providing deflection resistance. A first pick-up pin selectively extends the first pin arm through a first pick-up pin orifice in a wall portion of the spinner head assembly. A first pick-up sleeve is rotationally mounted on the first pick-up pin for engaging fishing line when fishing line is wound onto said spool.

A fishing reel includes a reel body and a sensor unit. The reel body has a handle configured to be rotated about a handle axis. The sensor unit is attached to the reel body. The sensor unit includes a unit body disposed coaxially with the handle axis, a behavior sensor disposed within the unit body and configured to detect behavior when the reel body is used, and a communicator disposed within the unit body and configured to transmit behavior data to the outside based on the behavior detected by the behavior sensor.

A reel, such as a spincast reel, provides increased cranking power by eliminating sliding contact associated with a line pickup mechanism when the reel is in line retrieval mode. Fishing line is retrieved by locating a cam member proximate a body spool boss during a casting state for positioning the cam member to be acted on by cam engaging structure of the body spool boss. The cam member is rotated relative to the body spool boss. The cam member and a pick up pin are moved radially outwardly by the cam engaging structure. The cam member is axially moved away from the body spool boss. The cam member may then be rotated relative to the body spool boss during a line retrieve state, wherein the cam member and the body spool boss are spaced apart from one another for facilitating frictionless relative rotation.