Patented Digital Level Winds

[Steve]

Hand jobs:

[Eric J]

The top one doesn’t look like it is much fun to fish with, and the bottom one looks like it’s going right to the bottom of the lake when a fish strikes!

[Dr. Rob]

Brilliant… I love it.
Remind me to make a deal with the local nail salon to invent a hook-shaped thumbnail. We’ll make millions!

[RAM]

Potential problems with large fish hooked in experimental stage:
(1) loss of finger
(2) loss of reel
(3) loss of potential investors

Otherwise splendid concept predating modern digital reels by decades

Bad Bob

[Paul Roberts]

[Eric J]

I just now saw that the first one has his index finger in that spring “rod”. Was a right handed caster supposed to stick his pinky finger in that?
If all went well and according to plan I’ll bet you could cast a lure almost as far as you could throw it. I would want a wrist lanyard though.
For fly fishing you could attach a helium balloon to the fly and shoot the balloon with the revolver in your other hand when the fly drifts over a rising trout. What sport!

[Steve]

Was a right handed caster supposed to stick his pinky finger in that?

The process is simple, just like casting a rod right-handedly and switching the rod to the left hand to crank the reel. After a few lessons at an Orvis school, the tyro will be able to jam the spring around his right index finger, swing the reel up, cast, remove his finger, swing the reel down, jam the spring around his left index finger, and start cranking. But the biggest advantage is that, with both right-handed and left-handed models, you could learn to fish with two separate lines simultaneously, though it would be hard to hold your beer.