Does anybody remove the anti reverse pawl in shimano reels?

 

I get having the extra security of it, but I can't think of any other reels with it. 

 

Reasoning being petty, but the constant clicking while reeling in can be annoying. 

Apologize, just realized I placed this in the wrong forum. Moderator could you please move?

2 hours ago, FordsnFishin said:

Does anybody remove the anti reverse pawl in shimano reels?

 

I get having the extra security of it, but I can't think of any other reels with it. 

 

Reasoning being petty, but the constant clicking while reeling in can be annoying. 

sure do. hasn't been in a couple 51es for 7-8 years. pitch it in the trash. 

If your reel is newer than the G platform it doesn't have one, anyway.

Yes, removed it from all of my older Shimanos years ago, but saved them and send it along when I sell a reel in case the buyer wants it.  They were a pain in the neck.

Over a decade and hundreds of reels I’ve seen one catastrophic AR failure and that was in an abused musky reel. Redundant AR is exactly that. 

I have bent a few in my time cleaning reels, especially on Curado 200g  and the Chronarch 50e.  I don't know what it is but if it moves out of place when putting the reel back together, I end up bending it.  I have left them off before until a new one came in and really didn't notice much of anything until I hooked into a decent fish.

 

Here is another old thread from TT about this sort of thing......

 

http://www.tackletour.net/viewtopic.php?t=44933