An electric spinning reel for fishing is provided, which aims at preventing an operation member that is utilized for outputting and regulating a drive motor from being started at a location in which the drive motor is in an outputs OFF state, even if the operation member is accidently triggered, thus to perfectly assure the operability of the operation member. To attain the purpose of the aforementioned, the electric spinning reel (1) for fishing comprises a drive motor capable of rotatably driving a reel, an operation member (40) utilized for regulating the drive motor, and a resistance force given mechanism (50) utilized to give a resistance force to the rotation of the operation member (40) which is moved toward an output-increasing direction. In an embodiment, the operation member (40) has a first position where the drive motor is in the output OFF state and a second position where a specific range is obtained by rotating from the first position in a direction opposite to the output-increasing direction of the drive motor. When the operation member (40) is located at the first position, the resistance force given mechanism (50) gives the resistance force to the rotation of the operation member (40) which is moved in a direction opposite to the output-increasing direction of the drive motor. When the operation member (40) is located at the second position, the resistance force given mechanism (50) gives the resistance force to the rotation of the operation member (40) which is moved in the output-increasing direction of the drive motor.本發明的課題為提供一種釣魚用電動捲線器，即使不小心碰觸驅動馬達的輸出調整用的操作構件，也能防止該操作構件由馬達輸出OFF狀態的位置開始動作，並且也能良好地確保該操作構件的操作性。 本發明的解決手段為一種釣魚用電動捲線器1，包含：使捲筒旋轉驅動之驅動馬達；用以調整驅動馬達的輸出之操作構件40；及對操作構件40之朝馬達輸出增加方向的轉動賦予阻力之阻力賦予機構50。在一實施形態中，操作構件40具有：驅動馬達為輸出OFF狀態的第一位置，與自該第一位置朝與馬達輸出增加方向相反的方向轉動規定量的第二位置，阻力賦予機構在第一位置對操作構件之朝與馬達輸出增加方向相反的方向的轉動賦予阻力，並且在第二位置對操作構件之朝馬達輸出增加方向的轉動賦予阻力。 【代表圖】
