Control mechanism for bait-casting reel

A fishing reel comprising:

• a handle for providing driving force through a drive mechanism;
• a spool for taking up a fishing line in a rearward direction;
• a clutch mechanism for controllably coupling said drive mechanism to said spool;
• a control member having, at opposite ends thereof, holding portions projecting in forward, upward and downward directions, said forward direction being opposite to said rearward direction, said control member being movable in said upward and downward directions, said holding portions being perpendicular to a line extending through said opposite ends of said control member, said holding portions having opposing inner faces, said control member operating said clutch mechanism to allow said spool to be freely rotatable;
• a pair of side cases including outer wall members covering outer peripheries of said side cases, and inner wall members having rear edge portions with rectangular cutouts and having contact faces contacting said inner faces of said holding portions, each outer wall member having a rear edge inner face, said rectangular cutouts having front edges;
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• guide slots defined by said cutouts and said rear edge inner faces, said inner wall members and outer wall members being in contact with each other;
• said control member being mounted between said inner wall members and being longer than the distance between said contact faces of the inner wall members,
• said opposite ends of the control member being inserted into said guide slots,
• said inner faces of said holding portions slidably contacting said contact faces of said inner wall members,
• said holding portions having rear edges slidably contacting said rear edge inner faces of said outer wall members,
• said control member having front faces adjacent to said holding portions, said front faces slidably contacting said edges of said cutouts,
• wherein said inner wall members are held by said holding portions of said control member, thereby to prevent a space between said side cases from increasing and also to prevent said control member from being laterally displaced and further to prevent said control member from distorting.