Tag Archives: side-caster

The weird side casters revolution

One of our regular blog readers Alan sent in images of his side casting reel in response to our appeal. The original black reel on the white backdrop started it all off. There must be hundreds of wacky & weird models including Alan’s offering here to be had for the collectors. Looking more like a […]

We were all at it in the 1900’s

When PD Malloch of Perth, Scotland, patented his side-caster in 1884, he changed the thinking in terms of casting, spinning and worming. Most of us will have seen many variations on these reels in some form; brass, alloy, brass & alloy, single wind, geared and a few odd ball variants to boot. However not everyone could afford […]