Spooling a spinning reel?... How do you...

[Shad*Wizard]

hold the spool when spooling line onto your spinning reel?...Fisherman at Contra Loma wanted to know...I said I'd get some opinions on here and give him the results...Thanks...

[DPetty]

Here ya go,

Hope it helps.

http://www.ehow.com/how_4645029_spool-f ... -reel.html

[huddleston]

I'll tell you what I did years ago; I actually called Stepen at P-line who I believe was the owner and this guy literally spent 20-minutes with me on the phone. I was using his product and I had twisted train wrecks at times. I thought I didn't know how to spool a reel. So I called the guy and he was great. He ran down; who, what , when, why, and how on fluoro. He explained little things to remember while spooling, casting, retrieving, storage etc. Call him or the manufacture of your line.

[wccjanel]

About a hundred years ago, my buddy Jim convinced me to read the manual to my Shimano Stradic. In there it suggested to spool the reel by having the line roll from under the line spool to the reel spool. That would be opposite from what you want with a casting reel.
As far as toilet paper rolls, that's still between you and your spouse.

[ken]

Pull out the amount of old line you want to remove down the driveway, street etc. Next pull out the same amount of new line on the ground to the same stopping point. Cut the line and hook it up to the backing and reel it on the spool. Simple and it works everytime.

[brambo0311]

Lay the spool down label up and spool on. If it starts twisting, flip spool over. When you get allot of twist in you line, let it all out with nothing on it behind your boat. Drag it around and slowly reel it back on.

[kopper_bass]

Brambo & All,
Spools are typically made generic and are the same on both sides. The labels are placed on last and could be on either side of a spool. So one spool may be label up, but the next one is label down.

Simple Rule: line comes off the spool "counter-clockwise" and goes on your reel "clockwise".

This keeps the coils in the same direction. Do this and you wont ever have twisted line on your spool to start with. Keeping it twist free is a different problem .

Kopper

[DaLa]

I used to do the "flip the spool" method.

Recently I have started taking the spool off of my reel. Attach it to my cordless drill with a simple adapter that i made. Run the drill to spin the reel spool to take line off the plastic spool so the line has zero twist (just like filling a baitcaster). It has been working pretty well, but is easy to overfill the spool it goes so fast. (just make sure you spin it the correct direction...got it backwards the first time )

Dave

[2ndsuks]

Use 10# braid with a fluorocaron leader.
No more worries!

[Caudawg]

Lay the spool down label up and spool on. If it starts twisting, flip spool over. When you get allot of twist in you line, let it all out with nothing on it behind your boat. Drag it around and slowly reel it back on.

This is exactly what I do and was going to suggest. I don't think there is one magical way that works for all types of lines. But the above method does do the trick 99% of the time.

[acm95301]

Use 10# braid with a fluorocaron leader.
No more worries!

Yep!

[Phil]

Pull out the amount of old line you want to remove down the driveway, street etc. Next pull out the same amount of new line on the ground to the same stopping point. Cut the line and hook it up to the backing and reel it on the spool. Simple and it works everytime.

+1 that is the only trick I ever found that really works, only grassy field works better, no pavment or rocks to nick your line.

[RogerB]

Right, Phil. The reason that simple method works so well is that it puts the twisted line on your spinning reel spool (because every revolution of the spinning reel cup puts a twist of line onto the line). Then, when you cast, every coil of line coming off the spool untwists. That gives you line between you and your lure that is not twisted. When you reel it in, it again gets a twist for every revolution of the cup. Twisted line on the spool of the reel is not a problem.
You can also achieve the twisted-line-on-the-spool by holding the filler spool with a pencil or whatever through the holes in the spool, and winding the line onto your spinning reel with the filler spool unrolling as you do so, and it doesn't matter whether it's coming off the top or bottom of the filler spool. Again, for every revolution of the spinning reel cup, a twist of line is put onto your line (just like happens when you reel it in from being laid out on the lawn).
Winding in the line from the edge of the spool (label side or other up) can put the line onto the reel spool without being twisted, but then when you cast, a twist is put into the line by every coil of line that comes off the reel spool. That can be downright troublesome.
In my experience with spinning reels (over 50 years worth), it's much better to have the twists on the spinning reel spool and have the line untwist as it comes off the spinning reel spool.
However, you also need to be aware that if line is stripped off the spinning reel spool by a fish running against the drag, the line that is stripped off will be twisted line. This is an argument for back-reeling to give line to a running fish rather than letting it be stripped off under the drag tension. By back reeling, you are unwinding the twisted line with every revolution of the cup.

[massbaster]

The spool flip method works good for shimanos, but if you have a Daiwa with the twist buster spool( i think they all have it) you have to spool it on like a baitcaster. Thats what the instructions say anyways and it seems to work .