LATERALINE

I love braided line. I love it on my Spinners, deep bottom rigs, and jiggers. Yesterday, I hooked the biggest fish, I probably ever hooked before, he was dumping my 200lb braid on a 50wide... The dam braid was sinking into it self and broke.... :doh



Has anyone ever experienced this? Do you have to have the braid professionally wound on rigs where you are going to be putting alot of drag on fish? It seems to be reel hard to tightly pack the line on the reel at the house.. Never had this problem with Mono.. Does anyone know any tricks for the house, where you don't need to buy alot of equipment?



Thoughts??

Chris V

I always recommend you get it done on a linewinding machine. I offer it to all of our customers who originally plan on buying a spool to put on themselves. The ones that do spool it themselves usually end up coming back to have it stripped off and re-wound. On lighter tackle its fine to do it by hand although you may experience more wind knots but with heavy gear like you mention it should always be done by machine so it receives the proper tension.

Another thing you can do to prevent it on a reel that is already spooled is to retrieve the line with a hard "X" pattern as you level it onto the reel. This can help prevent it from digging too far into itself

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lobsterman

You can also cut off all added extra stuff ( rigs, jigs, weights, leaders etc... ) and let out behind a moving boat and reel back in with good tension.

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Chris V

Completely forgot to mention that. Good tip George. I watched someone do that going 20 knots not realizing the immense drag line creates going through the water and he ended up dumping his reel. Single dumbest thing I've ever seen a so-called experienced fisherman do.

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LATERALINE

I thought about doing that, like on the way out one day.. maybe put a 10 oz egg sinker on end... thanks..

Chris V

You won't even need the sinker. The line will create more than enough drag by itself

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DreamWeaver21

With two people we just have one person put on gloves or oven mits, stick a pencil through the spool and have the person holding the line put drag on the spool.

I'm sure there are better ways but when I spool line by myself, I'll put a pencil or something through the spool to stabilize it and throw the spool in a dresser drawer with an old t-shirt wrapped around the spool for drag and close the drawer just enough to hold the spool and t-shirt in place.

And yes I have learned the lesson about getting braid tight on a spool as well.

Inn Deep

Are you using mono as a backer? If not you should.

Chris V

Why? Other than to maybe put a few yards on to prevent slippage. This will not prevent the line from digging in if there is still underlying braid

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lobsterman

Definitely don't use an egg sinker because it will spin your line up beyond belief. The line will create enough drag to suffice.

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