Mechanism to inhibit latching of trip mechanism on a bait cast fishing reel

A casting style fishing reel comprising:

• a housing including a frame with laterally spaced side frame members with a side cover member associated with each side frame member;
• a line-carrying spool rotatably mounted for rotation about a laterally extending axis between the side frame members;
• means for rotating the spool to direct line thereon with the reel in a retrieve mode;
• spool control means for disengaging the spool from the spool rotating means for allowing the spool to freely rotate in a direction to allow line to pay out of the spool with the reel in a cast mode;
• means for maintaining the fishing reel in the cast mode;
• means on the spool rotating means and means on the spool control means cooperating with each other for changing the fishing reel from the cast mode to the retrieve mode as an incident of the spool rotating means being operated;
• and
• means for selectively 1) preventing the maintaining means from maintaining the fishing reel in the cast mode with the preventing means in an "on" position and 2) allowing the maintaining means to maintain the fishing reel in the cast mode with the preventing means in an "off" position,
• wherein there is a first gear that rotates with the spool, the spool rotating means includes a second gear movably mounted between a first position in mesh with the first gear and a second position wherein the first and second gears are in non-meshed relationship, there is a rotatable crank handle for rotating the second gear, the spool control means includes a clutch plate/latching member that is movable between a first position and a second position, there being means responsive to movement of the clutch plate/latching element from its first position to its second position for moving the second gear from its first position to its second position, said maintaining means including a latch leg for engagement with the housing with the clutch plate in its second position and the reel in the cast mode and the preventing means in its "off" position and the preventing means prevents the clutch plate from moving fully into its second position with the preventing means in its "on" position, said preventing means including a tab on said spool control means projecting in the line of the spool axis and a movable arm on the housing that engages the tab with the preventing means in its "on" position to prevent the clutch plate/latching member from realizing its second position.