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Some reels used to have a "fighting drag". That involved a dial on the rear of the reel and a lever. The lever was free spool. The dial could be set to the desired drag level and then a marker was rotated into place by pushing it in and turning the marker. If you didn't push the marker in , it traveled with the drag knob.
So you set the drag where you wanted it to fight a fish. Then you moved the marker to 12 oclock for that drag setting. then instead of total free spool (using the lever) you could back the drag knob way off for a sort of strile or bait runner drag. Once the fish took the offereing , you could instantly tighten the drag so the marker was again at 12 oclock, This enable a very rapid return to the fish fighting setting and the loose drag but not free spool while the bait was out.
A fighting drag it was called
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