Can anyone recommend a good fly reel in a 4/5 model at a reasonable price- sick of buying mid range reels only for the drag to pack up after a years fishing
Thanks in advance

Guideline la master, 4,5,6 £99 great wee reel or the vison koma.

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Get a Danica compo 4/5 .There is no drag to knacker up.

Jim

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The Fishermans Friend is the Flirty Fly,Fickle Food for Fleeting Fish.

have a koma but drag is a bit iffy - will check out the guideline - cheers

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how does that work jim

See if you can get your hands on Shimano ultegra 5/6 circa 2001 to 2004 on flea bay.
Is cracking lightweight reel, not large arbor, as is current fashion, but does take a good amount of micro lite backing, has superb drag, machined bar stock, silent retrieve, can be palmed in fast!
sold for about £60 way back then.
I still have 3 plus 3 spare spools, are still doing the biz!!!
regards
bert

will do bert - cheers

I've had an orvis battenkill standard arbor for two years and it's great. I'd say the battenkill has been around so long for a reason!
I left it out in -17C in the shed last winter and I've never taken any care of it and it's still perfect. It's tough, has a nice drag range and is light.

In that size of reel you really don't need a drag.A rubber O ring tensions the spool so no overrun.And strangely it works very well in the bigger sized reel.I use it for all my dry fly fishing 4/5 and all my comp fishing 6/9 size.very light very simple and cheap.

Jim

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The Fishermans Friend is the Flirty Fly,Fickle Food for Fleeting Fish.

they have been recommended to me before - do they do a large arbor

Vision GT, had my two for around two years and they are still as good as the day I bought them.

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