What you get for your money with Centre Pin Reels?

Being perennially popular with a UK audience, as well as salmon and steelheader anglers in the USA and Canada, the market tends to stay nice and stable for these reels. John Stephenson looks at some classic examples of these reels like the Allcock's Aerial's right up to the modern day with the multi-coloured Kingpin reels!

[@steelhead6313]

cool collection ya gotz there..

[@rupertmcnaughtdavis3649]

Fascinating! From South Africa.

[@ScreamingReelsTV]

In British Columbia, the holy grail of centre pins are the ones made by Norm MacDonald. They come up for sale about as often as a unicorn's horn, and are quickly sold for premium prices.

[@spyrothedragon3431]

Hi Tom, thought you may be the person to ask, I remember seeing a centre pin that would rotate 90 degrees to allow you to cast like a fixed spool reel, once cast you returned it to the normal position with a click! I can't find one anywhere, I thought maybe you could shed some light on this for me? Many thanks

[@martinlote7863]

Lovey reels

[@jbradshaw4236]

Please can I ask what the little narrow drum/pin was at 4 mins in please? Do you have one in stock

[@ThomasTurnerfishing]

Hello, thank you for your message, sorry that we haven't picked up on these messages, we are still getting used to all these social media channels! Are you still interested to know this? I will ask John/Dave and come back to you?

[@geoffringham1051]

Centre pins are vastly overpriced in comparison to the far more complex fixed spool reels. Why ?