After the spinner rod the most important thing comes in an anglers mind is to choose the right type of spinning reel.The spinner reel revolutionised the fishing reel techology.For the first time the anglers had a bait casting tool that not only provided great versatility but also allows the angler to access hard to reach water, under rocks.They were originally developed to allow the use of artificial flies ,or other lures for trout or salmon(A species of fish). The design of the spinning reel virtually makes it backlash free , as they did not have a rotating spool to overrun and foul the line.Spinning reels often produce superior casting distance and allow anglers to use a wide variety of lines.For example , extra light or small diameter lines can be better used with a spinning reel for clear water fishing.Apart from that spinning reels are easy to operate.

There are wide variety of spinning reels , there are ultra smooth,precision engineered high end models, then there are basic functional models that most of us learn to cast on .The performance and smoothness of reels operation depends on number of ball bearings within the design.Good quality spinning reels comes with three to four ball bearing there are spinning reels with up to ten ball bearings.