The common refrain among freshwater fly anglers is that your reel doesn’t matter, but when it comes to saltwater fly reels, that statement couldn’t be farther from the truth. Saltwater alone will test ...

Saltwater and freshwater spinning reels are a breed apart. To survive the demands of offshore, inshore, and backwater fishing, a saltwater spinning reel has to be tough and powerful while maintaining ...

Choosing the right fishing reels for saltwater is no easy task. Mostly because the market is flooded with a bevy of choices already. Things get even more complicated when newer anglers realize how ...

Here’s an observation I've picked up over five decades fishing the Virginia coast: spinning reels and saltwater do not mix. The spinning reel's moving metal parts, combined with saltwater's corrosive ...