Trabucco Airblade Free Spool

At first sight, it’s a brilliant front drag reel; lightweight, wide spool, ultraslim metal body,
smooth rotation, precise bail trip, perfect drag function, one touch folding handle. But an
accurate inspection tells you that the spool’s skirt must play an unusual role, because it’s
free from spool’s structure and can be manually rotated to engage the free runner mechanism.
What does it mean? The free runner system is, practically, a bit loose second drag,
which leaves the spool free to turn and give line to the fish, so that it can develop the first
run without any risk for the hooklink. The light drag tension is important to avoid backlash,
which would be inevitable in case of total spool’s freedom. When the user decides to start
line retrieve, he must simply push forward the handle by one quarter of turn: in this way,
the free runner is automatically disengaged and main drag gets into play, of course at level
previously set by the user. A click sound informs that free runner system is off, and the fun starts! Big fish are of course the main target of this reel: carp, barbel, mullet, seabass and
sea bream, which fall to the bait carried by float or feeder rig presented through definitely
finer hooklinks, as the line now gets the protection from Trabucco free runner!