Choosing a Sage Fly Fishing Reel

There are certain general criteria that a novice fly fisherman should look for when choosing a fly fishing reel, no matter what the brand of reel. In addition, novice fisherman should also think about getting a less expensive fly fishing reel such as an Okuma brand of fly fishing reel rather than a Sage fly fishing reel since they are still learning about the sport and probably do not want to invest too much money at the start until they learn what works best for them.

Specifications

A fly fisherman must decide what type of drag system they want in a Sage fly fishing reel. There are two types of drag systems that are normally available in fly fishing rods, which give the line some tension so that larger fish cannot pull all of the line out of the reel, leaving it in a pile at the fly fisherman's feet to be untangled and reeled back into the reel. The spring and pawl system is the most common, although the Sage fly fishing reels usually use the other type, the disk system, which is silent. The spring and pawl system makes a clicking noise as it provides the tension to the line.

Another specification that a fly fisherman must decide on in their Sage fly fishing reel is what type of retrieval system they want it to have, such as an automatic fly fishing reel retrieval system. The automatic retrieval system allows the fly fisherman to press a button or flip a lever and the fly line is automatically wound in by the reel so that he can recast the line, which is the fastest system on the market today. Some Sage fly fishing reels have this automatic retrieval system on them as an option. Besides the automatic retrieval system, there is also a multiplying retrieval system which is what the majority of Sage fly fishing reels have on them as a standard feature, which is faster than the single action retrieval system, but not as fast as the automatic system.

Sage fly fishing reels can be quite expensive, with the value line reels costing just under one hundred dollars, which is much more than the fifteen dollars that an Okuma system costs. In addition, the middle of the line Sage fly fishing reels cost almost four hundred dollars where the top of the line Sage fly fishing reels cost almost seven hundred dollars.