OT home made fly reel

[groundpounder]

Put some fish slime on it today with some native browns.

[strum]

I dont know how i missed this post but i just got to say Todd that is a draw dropping beautiful reel...awsome job man..
i see you tried it out ..what did you think?

[wabi]

Looks like it did the job!
How did you like it's performance?

[groundpounder]

It performed great until the smooth round nut that I made to hold the click pawl went missing
I put it together and took it apart so many times during the build and knew it would be taken apart again, I failed to put some loc-tite on the nut. It was also hard to get a grip on the nut to tighten it good since it was smooth and round. I'll be making a new one for it here shortly and will either put some flats on it or scollap it like the nut that holds the spool on. Other than this minor set back I like it!!! There is the right amount of tension with the click pawl for easily stripping off line and reeling it back in. This was my main concern with performance.

[j.krug]

Very pretty trout caught with an equally beautiful real! Good to see it worked as good as it looks.