Spinning reels offer some advantages, including being easier to cast than bait casters.

Bait-casting reels offer advantages, too, including the potential to cast farther, because the line rolls directly off the spool, unlike how the line on a spinning reel flies off at a 90-degree angle.

Comparing them is like comparing apples and oranges.

Neither is best, and most anglers think each reel is best in certain situations, preferring to own both for that reason.

But Kendra Gear noticed a disadvantage to spinning reels.

The line becomes twisted, because of the 90-degree angle, and after a while, that creates tangles.

So the company developed the Straightcast Reel.

The reel eliminates line twist or, as the company says, allows the angler to maintain a line twist count of zero.

The Straightcast’s spool can be turned 180 degrees.

After a cast, the spool can be flipped 180 degrees for the next.

After generating a positive twist on the first cast, it says, the angler generates an equal amount of negative twist on the second, by casting from alternating sides of the spool.

That eliminates twist.

Also, on the retrieve, the angler can turn the spool in-line, like a bait caster.

That also eliminates line twist.

Watch a video to see all of this.

The Straightcast also offers other advantages.

The 90-degree twist of the line on a spinning reel stresses the line and increases the chance the line will break over time.

The Straighcast cuts down on that.

With a spinning reel, the bail doesn’t always rotate and stop at the same position, forcing the angler to look to grasp the line for the next cast.

With the Straightcast, the line is retrieved in-line, always placing the line in the same position to grasp.

When using a bait-casting reel, the line is on top of the rod, and when the rod is bent on a hook-up, the line touches the rod, increasing wear on the line.

With the Straightcast, the line is always on the
bottom of the rod, never touching it, like a
spinning rod.

Most anglers, when fishing a bait-caster, cast with the strongest hand, and then switch to holding the rod with the other hand, to retrieve the line with the stronger hand turning the handle.

The rod with a Straighcast Reel can always be held in the same hand.

The reel is the first of its kind, the company says.

It offers the ability to eliminate line twist, and is really a spinning reel and a bait-casting reel combined.

The reel offers the benefits of both, and none of the drawbacks, the company says.

For more info, visit Kendra Gear’s website.

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