Allcocks Match Aerials, the centrepin that should come with a free precision screwdriver.
I've owned four over the years, not one of them has run straight, drop dead gorgeous looks but there is only so much Sunday night faffing a bloke can put up with.
They can certainly spin, my first was well well used but after a clean up and a drop of sewing machine oil me and my brother watched it go for eight minutes.
The start up is not at all bad with the aforementioned two swan chubbers, needs starting in slower flows but keeps on going.
There is an early John Wilson Go Fishing episode, on my DVD it's called Go Fishing Masterclass, with introductions from **** Walker no less.
John is trotting a narrow stream for roach and can clearly be seen pulling line off the reel to help it go through, in fact he comments on how the flow is not pulling the line from the reel as he would like.
Like any good true pin it's more forgiving when the first tentative steps are taken towards the Wallis cast, or some bowdlerised version of it.
It purrs along like a Bentley at a steady 50mph rather than the 0-60 in 3 seconds Pagini Zonda of some bearing reels.
It takes a bit of time and practice but eventually you can get the float sailing into the far blue yonder. Not that difficult, although those precious darlings who won't fish with anything made after WW1 seem to think it makes them some sort of Jedi.
With practice you can time stopping the line when casting with a closed face reel just before it hits the water, it straightens the rig and has the float entering perfectly silently. It's not the basis for a religion though.
