Thank you for that well done side-by-side description. I had a Daiwa SF (it was stolen) and always thought its adjustable click set-up was excellent, along with it's overall quality, so I've been wanting to look over a Lochmoor. I think there is a large-arbor version as well, kind of interesting since there are few LA models with good quality traditional click drags.

Finally got around to satisfying this curiousity, as I had one of the Daiwa 708 reels and especially liked the click-pawl drag mechanism with its firmly detented stops for the adjuster and a relatively wide range of resistance. Mine was stolen, and when the Lochmor reels came out, I thought the mechanism might be identical, and then came the original post here. So now that they are way cheap on closeouts, I got one of the LA versions. I guess it could be called mid-arbor, but unlike many LA reels, it has the capacity for 60 yards of backing and a DT 6 weight line. Weighs a touch less than 6 oz with line on, very close to my favorite JW Young 1525 narrow spool conventional arbor reels and about the same diameter. Plain finish die-cast body, smooth with a good sound from the click. Daiwa-Seiko, made in China.







Carlz, per your question below, I barely spun it before loading line so I can't really compare. My comparison would be no good anyway. Few clicks are loud enough for my partial hearing loss--this one is, at least without much background wind/flowing water noise--but I wouldn't hear the higher tones that make a click screechy.

Since I have both I just gave them a twirl, they sound like dual pawl reels to me . They sound even better with a fish taking line out.

Seriously, they sound a little different from each other but well within what I would consider the range and I have a large assortment of dual pawls. They both have line on, there is only so far I'm willing to go in the interest of science.

Like Wrhlpool, I have to plead a hearing problem, tinnitis. Everything has a ringing sound.