Fancied one of these for a while now....

[Tigger]

Since Chav posted pic's of the Kingpin Zeppelin reels i've fancied having one. I recently sold a couple of reels to fund one and today it arrived .

Here's a few pic's of the reel.....

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I'm looking forward to getting out on the river to see how it performs.

[philocalist]

Nice, are they not? - though no doubt there will be others chipping in who totally disagree

[chesters1]

Never understood why they never had gears ,the gearfly fly reel was geared so why not invent a system where it freewheels "out" but the gears engage reeling in

[Tigger]

All added weight and complications Chesters, as they are they're simple to use and made to be as light as possible.

[Ken L]

Magnesium?

[Tigger]

Magnesium?

 

 

I've just looked on the kingpin website Ken and I can't see what the grade of alloy they use. I would imagine it'll be a high grade alloy as are most of the decent reels.

 

http://www.kingpinreels.com/zeppelin/

[OTIB]

It's small it's round, it cost five hundred pound.....

[Tigger]

It's small it's round, it cost five hundred pound.....

 

 

...it would cost you five hundred pound but it didn't cost me five hundred pound....Rabbit

 

I'm amazed that your still hangin around doin your trolling thing, surely your board of it all by now ?

Edited August 14, 2014 by Tigger

[Tigger]

I managed a couple of hours trotting with the Zeppelin reel after tea today. The reel was great to wallise cast with and felt very solid and well made...no clonking etc. My only gripe is because the spool is only 3/4 inch wide winding in with a finger in the holes wasn't to good as my finger kept catching on the ratched bits on the backplate. it would be better to wind in in that fashion of the reel was at least an inch wide. Overall the reel performed superbly and rotates with the slightest tow of water. I had quite a few fish...perch, chub and dace with some quite large dace. Here's a few pic's from the session.....











Check out how greedy the dace are, 12 maggots on a 14's animal...

[viney]

Lovely looking reel tigger!