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Fly fishing?

What is the diffrence between a fly reel and a spear spool?

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1. A spear reel will attach with screws to the side of a spear gun. A fly reel attaches by use of rings on a fly rod reel seat. They both serve a very similar purpose in winding in your catch or your line. Heres a look at a mounted spear reel: http://www.speargun.com/accessory_03.htm#reel Heres a mounted fly reel: http://www.orvis.com/store/shop.aspx?pageType=GROUP&dir_id=758&Group_ID=768&shop_id=7599&bhcp=1
2. I'm thinking you meant "spare" spool. A spare spool is a duplicate carraige of your flyreel. You can use it to hold a different kind of flyline (let's say sink-tip) that you can change to when the fishing conditions dictate.
3. Use a fly for fly fishing and use a spear for spear spool.
4. the reel has all the gears. Spare spools just hold line. You can have 50 spare spools with different weight fly lines loaded on them, but only one reel to snap them into. If you need help answering this question, you probably don't need to buy any spare spools yet....
5. A fly reel has a different type of line
6. Most of your question has been answered, be it either spear spool or spare spool. When you purchased your fly reel, it came with one spool. Virtually all reels made today have the ability to quickly change spools for the stated reason of changing types of lines. Depending on which reel you purchased, a spare spool can cost anywhere from $20 to $330, but then a spool that costs $330 fits onto a reel that cost $580. Some spools simply hold the line and have little or nothing to do with controlling the drag on the reel. Other spools are an intricate part of the drag system and those tend to cost more and naturally what they are made out of also determines cost. Some people may only buy one spare spool for a reel, even though they may use 5 or 6 types of fly lines. They buy a line winder instead of a lot of spools. When they want to switch styles of lines back at the campground, they simply pull out one of their lines that they have in storage. They remove the unwanted line by rewinding it onto the line winder, they tie it off with soft ties and set it aside in a marked bag. Then they install the line they want to use on the line winder and use the reel to put the line back onto the spool in the reel. The one big benefit to doing this is that the line that comes off the line winder is in a large circle, say about 8 inches across. There is far less of a problem with line memory coil with lines stored like that than those kept on the much smaller diameter of the spare spool. I use this type of a line winder, as seen at http://www.burfish.com/catalog/5724.html It is light weight, made out of aluminum and folds into a fairly small package for transporting. Figure out how many spare spools you need and either just have two and use a line winder or buy 5 or 6 spare spools. Sometimes spare spools are hard to find after the reel has been out for a year or two. They only make so many of them then they design a new fly reel that uses different spools. Larry