Click pawl reels are the Harley Davidson of the river

Keep in mind that a lot of us dimwitted, confused, I once had a leaking valve stem, half-demented oldster types that are hard of hearing, cleaned my chimney this summer, can use a good click pawl to remind us, wow, look at that! what the hell we're doing. Those lips!
 
Dustin Chromers said:
Seriously, we get it. You are stripping line and casting farther. Is that a grab?! Probably just some guy in full antique costume channeling his inner Zane Grey as he announces his rugged hipster cool to the river. Just like riding a Harley means you value performance and quality a click pawl reel says the same. Loud, poorly made, and essentially the worst tool for the job. South Park should do an episode about the click pawl reel enthusiast's outlaw gangs of overly loud anglers catching nothing but attention and derision from the other anglers. Wdfw needs to pass a noise ordinance for these renaissance outlaws of a bygone era. They promote violence and traffic in all male prostitution. It has to stop. We are a civilized nation now and there is no room for this kind of noise pollution on the river.
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Click pawl reels are what a car with manual transmission, rear-wheel drive, and a normally aspirated engine is to the car world.
 
I have two click-pawl reels (a Hardy and a Pflueger) but I have not used either in decades. My Dad used the Hardy all the time and it is super noisy, like a duck call. The click-pawl just won't work for the fisheries I enjoy. Someday I want to take the Hardy trout fishing someplace where nobody will hear it.
 
J Watrous said:
Overhyped, overpriced, and overloud?
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It's subjective. To me, the overhyped and overpriced reels are those top of the line disc drag reels that supposedly will stop a truck, but nonetheless suffer breakdowns requiring sending back to the factory for repair. Most spring and pawl reels just keep functioning for a lifetime to two without ever a need for repair. I have a couple boxes of spring and pawl reels, some of them over 50 years old, and have only ever sent two to Archuleta for service, one because I dropped it on a concrete floor and slightly been the spool rim (user error) and another because one of the line guide screws had rusted in place, so I wanted it expertly serviced. If only Galvins, Abels, and Hatch reels performed so well.

Overloud? I've never in 50+ years heard anyone complain until Chromers started this thread.
 
Salmo_g said:
It's subjective. To me, the overhyped and overpriced reels are those top of the line disc drag reels that supposedly will stop a truck, but nonetheless suffer breakdowns requiring sending back to the factory for repair. Most spring and pawl reels just keep functioning for a lifetime to two without ever a need for repair. I have a couple boxes of spring and pawl reels, some of them over 50 years old, and have only ever sent two to Archuleta for service, one because I dropped it on a concrete floor and slightly been the spool rim (user error) and another because one of the line guide screws had rusted in place, so I wanted it expertly serviced. If only Galvins, Abels, and Hatch reels performed so well.

Overloud? I've never in 50+ years heard anyone complain until Chromers started this thread.
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Hence my question and the "overpriced" bit as they tend to be the least expensive of reels. Personally, I love them. My phone ringtone is a recording of an Islander IR and my favorite non-Tibor reels are the Hardy Salmon 2s with ribbed brass feet that I filed myself.
 
I like a clicker with a fish on, but I always feel a little weird shattering the silence around me when stripping out line, especially around a bunch of gear guys. I'd probably own some clickers if I had gotten serious about fly fishing earlier in life, but by the time I started buying my gear, just about everything in my ideal price range was disc drag, so that's what I've got.

Like others, I'm a fan of my Ross CLA on my main 8-wt. outfit. Solid reel, good drag, simple design, fair price, quiet line deployment...
 
Tom Butler said:
The good stuff!
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I can practically hear Ron Burgandy in the distance saying: I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany

In the biking community there is Hub sound that is called an Angry Bee



the first time I heard it I thought of some of the fishing gear I purchased from woolworths five and dime many decades ago when woolworths still existed and when it sold fishing gear. Cheap miserable gear. Gear that had a ratchety buzz when line was pulled from spool.

Though in the biking community these sounds are seen not as cheap and flimsy, but instead as indicative of a high-end gear.

Spendy riders love 'em. They are a statement item.

To this casual observer it means an asshole and/or anesthesiologist (or dentist) is near by and all wildlife and all things good and beautiful have long ago fled. Plus not only is it hard to listen too the male rider is also in skintight bike gear which just is never visually appealing to anyone rational and sane. (apologies Tom if you love the loud hubs, obviously I am just joking here)

A personal nightmare for me would be an anesthesiologist or dentist giving a blow-by-blow monologue re bikes and bike gear, including the joys of the "angry bee hub" while under inattentive sedation where pain- and the inane monologue- leaked through to my brain.
 
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Salmo_g said:
It's subjective. To me, the overhyped and overpriced reels are those top of the line disc drag reels that supposedly will stop a truck, but nonetheless suffer breakdowns requiring sending back to the factory for repair. Most spring and pawl reels just keep functioning for a lifetime to two without ever a need for repair. I have a couple boxes of spring and pawl reels, some of them over 50 years old, and have only ever sent two to Archuleta for service, one because I dropped it on a concrete floor and slightly been the spool rim (user error) and another because one of the line guide screws had rusted in place, so I wanted it expertly serviced. If only Galvins, Abels, and Hatch reels performed so well.

Overloud? I've never in 50+ years heard anyone complain until Chromers started this thread.
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I've gotten many to sign my petition to ban them. I'm not the only one. Noise statues are very serious things sir. You've been served
 
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