Hey yall, I wanted to throw this two part question out there.

Do you spool your own reels or do you have the bait shop guys do it for you on the spooling machine?

And whichever way you spool, why do you roll that way?

I spool my own. I do it because the guy at the store put it on wrong a few too many times. Nothing can take the fun out of a day like line twist on a spinning rod! doing it myself, I can apply the tension the way I want, bring it to the level I want and feel the line to make sure I like it. Some line doesn't feel good. Don't ask me to explain that, I can't But some line feels good to me and some doesn't and its that line that will give me problems when I fish. I top shot a lot too. I buy 1/4 pound spools and keep it in a dark cool place and it lasts a long time.

Yeah, what Frank said... lol

Couldn't say it better Frank. Brendan has taught me alot about spooling line. Makes fishing more of a pleasure then getting fustrated with spool offs.

I tried having the tackle shop spool for me once. The guy said to me " these $%# left hand crank baitcasters always cause us a lot of trouble."

Like I was the only guy on the planet that prefers them.

The spool job was bad. They would put it on for free if you bought the line there.

Big deal, a lousy spooling job for free.

I always spool my own rods. You have more control and can get it just the way you like with a little practice.

What do you mean? It's not suppossed to do this?

I have noticed that the very light, and very heavy lines have a tendency to backlash more often. That looks like some pretty heavy line Nunz. What is that, 14 lb. mono.

I've seen that picture before.... In my last nightmare.

I had that same dream!! more than once!
I haven't seen an uptick with a change in line weight. I have had problems when I've changed brands of line. Stiff lines like Ande drive me nuts. Yeah I tried Ande in fresh water! Don't laugh. BAck in the day it had less stretch than anything on the market. The old stren was so limp and stretchy you didn't get tight on the hook set til the rod tip was past your shoulder!

Was 17 Geo. Throwing into the wind with out fine tuning your real makes a beautiful nest. I have to say 95% of the time the birdies do come out. Now if someone spools your reel wrong that can be another story. It's funny Frank back in the day it wasn't complicated to choose a line because there wasn't that many options. Now forget about it. We have four choices that we all use that break down into dozens of brands each. We need all these four choices on a given reel sometime or another.

1. Flouro
2. Mono
3. Braid
4. Flouro leader

What happened to a simple day of fishing...........lol

I don't know exactly why, but there's just something funny about this sentence...