You are looking at the wrong reel. You looked up the Black Betty by 13 fishing. I am selling a Black Betty 6061 by 13 fishing. If you copy and paste the following, it should take you to an image and better description at Reeds Sporting Goods: 13 Fishing Black Betty CNC 6061 Ice Reel - BB6061. Fish USA site says the are out of stock until October. When I googled 6061 Black Betty, I was able to find them at 2 or 3 shops, one of which was fish usa. I preordered 2. A couple of days later I tried the same search and fish usa didn't come up any more, because they had "pre-sold" all of the reels that they were alloted. The 6061 BB is a limited production model this year, with something like 200-350 of them being released this year. I don't knkow why they would make two different reels and give them almost the exact same name.
I have been informed that by taking the reel apart and switching a disk around that it will crank in the propper direction, so I will try this with the opened package tonight and see just what a pain in the butt it will be. If it isn't a big problem, I will go ahead and do it to the other reel and keep both of them.
I am anxious to try them out, they should work great on deeper water and eliminate most if not all line twist associated with spinning reels.
