The environment can be hard on your gear, corroding and degrading quality kit in no time, meaning that gear care can be the chore that makes or breaks your next fishing trip. Although it might seem daunting, the small and regular cleans you can do at home are what’s going to keep your kit, especially fly reels, in good working order. Here, Warwick Leslie of Alu-Cab shows us how simple it can be to service a Shilton reel at home. The same approach can be applied to any cork drag reel like an Abel or Tibor.
There are a few materials and tool you’ll need to service a fly reel:
Brake and Parts cleaner, Reelfast corrosion blocker, Corrosion Block grease, Cal’s drag grease (for cork), earbuds, a screwdriver and a scriber.
