Bimodal fishing reel assembly

A bimodal fishing reel kit comprising

• a reel housing including a housing side plate and a mounting shoe disposed above said housing side plate used in attaching the reel to a fishing rod,
• a spindle mounted on the housing side plate and projecting outwardly thereform,
• a first spool adapted to contain windings of fly-fishing line and a second spool adapted to contain windings of spin-casting line used in spin-casting, each spool being rotatably and detachably mountable on said spindle with the exclusion of the other spool,
• a detachable side plate spaced from and disposed opposite said housing side plate, said housing and detachable side plates extending in covering relation over the ends of a spool mounted on said spindle,
• a line-passing channel extending from the center of the detachable side plate to an edge thereof and having an entrance communicating with an edge portion of the side plate, and
• mounting means comprising a series of posts extending outwardly from adjacent the periphery of said housing side plate, mounting said detachable side plate on said reel housing with said side plate detachably and fixably held in one position where said channel is oriented to extend upwardly and forwardly in the reel assembly, said posts being symmetrically distributed about the periphery of the housing side plate to have corresponding positions on opposed sides of a plane bisecting said housing side plate and providing for the detachable and fixed holding of the side plate in another position where said channel is oriented to extend in a direction opposite to said one direction, the first position of the side plate and with the spool adapted to contain windings of spin-casting line mounted on said spindle producing a spin-casting reel and the second position of the side plate and with the spool adapted to contain windings of fly-fishing line producing a fly-fishing reel.