Trident Fly Fishing
Tibor Billy Pate Fly Reel
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The Tibor Billy Pate Fly Reel is the reel Ted Juracsik built his name on introduced in 1975 as his first anti-reverse tarpon reel and still offered in three sizes covering 6 through 12 weight rods. Anti-reverse is the whole point of this family and it works differently from a direct drive reel: when a fish takes line the spool turns against the drag but the handle stays where it is instead of spinning backwards with it. That means your hand can stay on the handle through a run and it means the fish is stopped by the drag setting and by rim pressure rather than by anything you do to the crank.