That clicking sound is what mine was doing. I took it to Qualls in Salem, IL for Larry Quall to look at. He is a really nice guy and helped me out a lot. My problem was that it had gotten a lot of fishing line on the shaft and the motor had gotten water in it. I have not yet had a chance to try it out after he has fixed it though, so we will see. I hope there are no other problems, i need to start fishing more!