To provide a handle assembly of a reel for fishing scarcely entwining a fishing line therewith.

This double bearing handle assembly is an assembly attached to a tip of a handle shaft of a reel for fishing and is provided with a crank arm, a fixed shaft 22 and a handle part 23. The crank arm is an arm unrotatively attachable to the tip of the handle shaft, extended in the radial direction of the handle shaft and having a first threaded hole 26d arranged substantially parallel to the handle shaft, opened only outwardly in the shaft direction and formed at the tip thereof. The fixed shaft 22 is a member fixed by screwing an external thread part 22a formed at the base end into the first threaded hole 26d of the crank arm arranged substantially parallel to the handle shaft. The handle part 23 is freely rotatably attached to the fixed shaft 22 so as to be immobile in the shaft direction.