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Personally, for cranking, I prefer a reel that brings in between 21 and 24 IPT. You can have a 100-size reel that’s 7:1 and a 300-size reel that’s 6:1 and the IPT for the 300-size reel with the slower gear ratio has a higher IPT. This is where “inches-per-turn” (IPT) comes into play. Reels with the same gear ratio but different size spools will not bring in line at the same rate. The other consideration the angler must take into consideration is spool diameter. I was taught early on that gear ratio is only part of the puzzle. A reel isn’t considered fast until you get over the 7:1 hump and there are even faster reels up to and over 9:1.īut let’s talk about actual speed for a minute. Today you’re hard pressed to find a reel as slow as 5:1 as most “slow” reels are 6:1. To bring all this talk of speed into perspective, we used to consider a 5:1 ratio a high-speed reel back then and even through the mid-80s.

You can see the actual specifications and the writeups for each model in the reel spread from the 1972 Garcia Fishing Annual below. The C-series reels also differed in that they were the first bearing reels offered in this size.

The 5001C was the first left-hand reel on the market. The other reels in the series were the 5000C and 5001C, the later was debuted in 1972. 5000B: Large line capacity spool and counter-balanced handle.5000A: Large line capacity spool and small double handle.

5000: Standard line capacity spool and small double handle.

it came in red and was a bushing reel (no enclosed ball bearings) that featured a 3.8:1 gear ratio. Up to 1972, the ABU Garcia 5000 was the mainstay. In order to get the history right, I decided to pull out my old Garcia Fishing Annuals from 1970 through 1975 and see what they were advertising. Yeah, there were a few using reels made by Shakespeare and Pflueger but the vast majority were using the 5000 series of reels produced by ABU and marketed by Garcia. The year is 1973 and nearly every hard-core bass angler is using the reels ABU made. These ads I recently ran across tell a lot about where we’ve come from and the high-speed reel evolution. We’ve also talked about their ever-famous 5000 series reels and how they changed the face of casting reels in the 50s. We’ve previously covered the Swedish reel manufacturer ABU with respect to their Cardinal series of reels marketed by Zebco in the late 60s through 80s.