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Need some tips on get 6-8 pound XL or XT on poles while out on the water. We wound six poles last month and the line has been twisting and curling off with great regularity.

We did it by toss the new line out in the water and cranking it on whlie letting the lake water act as a natural resistor/tension while spooling.

We have no fancy equipment to wind it on, nor will we pay a sport shop to do it...unless ONE STOP does...I trust them!

Any thoughts would help. We leave in the A.M. for a another fabulous week on Rainy!

Thanks in advance for any tips!

Posted

Anchor,

Try this technique for adding new line to a spinning reel.

Starting at the tip of the rod, string the tag end of a fresh spool of line through your rod guides and tie it on to the reel arbor with a light knot. Make sure to position the knot at the top of the arbor. A knot at the bottom of the arbor tends to get in the way once the reel is full.

Fill a pitcher up with warm water and lay your spool of mono face up in the water at the bottom of the pitcher. Put the pitcher on the garage floor. Begin reeling the line onto the reel spool. You should be standing while doing this with the rod parallel to the floor. Positioned like this you will have about three feet of line between the pitcher and the tip of the rod. Run the line between your right index finger and thumb while reeling. I do this by putting the butt of the rod in my stomach, cranking with my left hand and stretching out my right had so that it is both grasping the reel and fingering the line.

The warm water allows the mono to soften, which helps eliminates the natural coils that occur from being wound on the factory spool. Laying the spool face up puts the coils from the factory spool in the proper orientation to be wound on the reel spool. The water in the pitcher tends to lubricate the whole works and helps minimize twisting. The three foot gap from the floor to the rod tip provides the time and space necessary to let the coils soften up.

Lots of fishermen fill a spinning reel by running a pencil through the factory spool to serve as an axel. Then they have a partner hold the axel while they quickly reel the line onto the spool. This method will often provide excessive twisting on a fresh spool of line.

I like to change my mono often. And it has occurred to me that the first 30 yards of line on the spool gets used, while the remainder of the line stays hidden and unused at the bottom of the spool. I combat this problem by stripping off only half of the old line from the reel. Then I tie a uni-knot to my new line and fill the reel as described above. This eliminates the waste of fresh line which would otherwise be used solely to fill up the bottom of the spool. That line rarely gets used in most fishing applications. This is a good method to use when filling your jigging rod with Fireline, too.

Lately I’ve been using Ironsilk on my live bait rod and am surprised by the durability and lack of memory in this line. Try it out sometime.

Berng

Posted

Line can go on backwards on spinning reels. Only on baitcasters can you just throw the line on there without facing it a certain way. Most spools you should just be able to hold them vertically with index finger and thumb in hole while someone reels it in. Have the side with the sticker facing you and reel about 8-10 times, then make a big loop with the line and hold it close to see if it twists around itself. You should be able to have a long "U" shape of line that hangs limp. If it does, then just keep reeling til you have enough on there. If not, experiment until it does. Good luck, I know it's frustrating spooling up a spinner!

Posted

Great info! And timely, too!

Have you guys ever thought about puting these posts into a BOOK? We be a great read for everyone. Kind of a cookbook but with recipes on fishing tricks of the trade.

Thanks again!

T minus 16 hours to Rainy...

Posted

Hello..........Trilene spools come with a paper sticker on one side.You spool your reel paper side up while trolling/drifting.(SPINING REEL ONLY)Level wind or bait caster should be spooled with a screw driver or rod through the hole on the line spool........hope this helps....c63

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