Drag for spinning reel

In a fishing reel having a housing, an axially reciprocable, non-rotatable center shaft carried by the housing, a line spool carried by the center shaft and having a line storage pocket on which the line is wound, which spool during casting is non-rotating and from which fishing line is unwound in a substantially axial direction, by transmission means to the hand crank to be rotated thereby and bail means pivotally mounted on the support member to rotated therewith, the improvement comprising:

• means for applying drag to the line spool comprising first drag means, second drag means radially offset and axially separated from the first drag means, and drag adjusting knob means, the first drag means being planar and having inner and outer diameters, the outer diameter extending radially outward of the storage pocket, the first drag means being mounted on one side of the line spool between one planar axial face of the line spool extending radially outward of the storage pocket and a flange member carried by the center shaft, the second drag means having an outer diameter smaller than the inner diameter of the first drag means and being mounted on the other side of the line spool between a second axial face of the line spool disposed radially inward of the storage pocket and the drag adjusting knob means, the knob means being carried by the center shaft and being axially adjustable along the center shaft for increasing and decreasing the drag applied by the first and second drag means to the line spool.