Fishing reel

A fishing reel including a reel body for accommodating components of a reel and a drive mechanism provided in said reel body for winding a fishline around a spool, wherein:

• a rotating shaft, which is rotated by the rotation of said drive mechanism, and a gear are fitted to each other in such a manner as to be prevented from rotating relative to each other;
• a hollow cylindrical portion extending from said gear in an axial direction of said rotating shaft is formed, and
• a bearing is interposed between said hollow cylindrical portion and said reel body so as to rotatably support said rotating shaft by said reel body,
• wherein a resilient member is interposed between fitting portions of said gear and said rotating shaft which is fitted to said gear in such a manner as to be prevented from rotating with respect to said gear so as to prevent play between said gear and said rotating shaft.

A coupling structure, provided to a fishing reel, for coupling a rotary shaft to a hollow cylindrical gear, said structure comprising:

• a circular outer surface of the rotary shaft;
• a noncircular outer surface of the rotary shaft, contiguous to the circular outer surface of the rotary shaft;
• a circular inner surface of the gear, to be fitted to the circular outer surface of the rotary shaft;
• a noncircular inner surface of the gear, contiguous to the circular inner surface of the gear, and to be fitted and non-rotatably coupled to the noncircular outer surface of the rotary shaft;
• and
• a resilient member provided to at least one of an interface between the circular inner surface of the gear and the circular outer surface of the rotary shaft and an interface between the noncircular inner surface of gear and the noncircular outer surface of the rotary shaft.