PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electric reel for fishing, with which a fishing rod and a reel body are easily held by one hand, as well as an operation member for adjusting the output of a motor is skillfully operated by the thumb of the hand, and in addition, which has sufficient holdability during operating the operation member and even when a big load is suddenly loaded.SOLUTION: An electric reel for fishing includes a spool around which a fishline is wound, a drive motor installed to a reel body 5 and rotatively driving the spool, an operation member 30 for adjusting the output of the drive motor, and a control case 15 in which a control unit for controlling the drive motor is housed. The operation member 30, whose lower region is housed in a concave part formed on the upper part of at least one of right and left side plates in the rear of the control case 15 so that an arc region on the outer peripheral surface operated by the thumb in contact therewith is exposed, is supported to be rotatable in almost the longitudinal direction by a spindle supported to be almost parallel to a spool shaft of the spool.COPYRIGHT: (C)2014,JPO&INPIT【課題】釣竿とリール本体を片手で容易に把持できるとともに、その手の親指でモータ出力を調整する操作部材を巧みに操作でき、更には、操作部材の操作中や急に大きな負荷がかかっても十分な把持性を有する魚釣用電動リールを提供する。【解決手段】本発明に係る魚釣用電動リールは、釣糸が巻回されるスプールと、リール本体5に設けられ、スプールを回転駆動する駆動モータと、駆動モータの出力を調整する操作部材30と、駆動モータを制御する制御部を収容した制御ケース15とを有する。操作部材30は、制御ケース15の後方側で少なくとも左右の側板の一方の上部に、親指を接触させて操作される外表面の円弧領域が露出するように側板上に形成された凹所内に下方領域が収容され、スプールのスプール軸と略平行に支持された支軸に略前後方向に向けて回転可能に支持されている。【選択図】 図1
