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I don't know how to tie the line?
Hey there! Great question about tying the line to the spool on a baitcasting reel. Let's walk through the process step-by-step, based on the video context provided:
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Thread the Line: First, guide your line through the eye of the baitcaster. This is the small opening where the line enters the reel.
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Use the Wiffle Spool: Many modern baitcasting reels have a wiffle spool, which is a spool with small holes like a wiffle ball. Insert the end of your line through one of these holes.
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Crank the Reel: Turn the reel handle just a bit to pull the line through the spool. If you have a reel with a 6:1 gear ratio, one full turn of the handle will rotate the spool six times. You only need to turn it enough to pull the line through.
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Tie the Arbor Knot:
- First Overhand Knot: Tie a simple overhand knot at the end of the line.
- Clip the Tag End: Cut off the excess line (tag end) close to the knot.
- Second Overhand Knot: Tie another overhand knot around the main line that is coming through the eye of the baitcaster. This knot will act as a stopper.
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Cinch the Knot: Pull the line back through the eye of the baitcaster to tighten the knot. The second knot will cinch down against the first knot, securing the line to the spool.
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Add Tape for Security: As an extra measure, take a small piece of thin scotch tape and place it over the knot. This helps hold the line in place and makes the knot less obtrusive, ensuring smoother spooling.
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Start Spooling: Now you can start winding the line onto the spool. Maintain moderate tension by running the line through your fingers, but be careful not to burn your fingers by reeling too fast.
Remember, the key is to keep the line centered on the spool and let the baitcaster's levelwind mechanism distribute the line evenly. Avoid overfilling the spool to prevent casting issues.
If you need any more details or have other questions, feel free to ask! Happy fishing! š£
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How To Spool A Baitcaster Reel | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource ā You just stick your line in that little wiffle
spool and turn your reel handle just a little bit. Again, you know, with a lotta these reels
these days you go, you know, six to one reel gear ratio. If you turn your reel all the way over, your
reel handle complete one turn, it's gonna turn the spool six times. You don't need that, just...you just need
enough to bring the line around so you can grab it just like I have here. Pull it out, and what you wanna do is is you
wanna tie a knot here at the end. Just a simple overhand knot. Very basic. Once you have that, clip off the tag end. And then you're gonna tie another overhand
knot right onto the line that's coming through the eye of your baitcaster. Just another simple overhand knot. Once you have that, pull the line back through
the eye of the baitcaster and cinch it down tight. That knot that you just made, acted as a stopper. It's gonna stop right there so that the line
doesn't come off your spool. Now as an added little measure, what I like
to do is take just a little teeny thin piece of scotch tape and I stick it right on the
knot that I just made. That does two things. Number one, it holds that line in place. The other thing is that it kinda covers that
knot, makes it less obtrusive, makes it easier for the line to go on the reel.
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Video02:24
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How To Spool A Baitcaster Reel | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource ā So now that I've got that done, alls I need
to do is just start winding it on. And it's really just a matter of the tension
has to be pretty tight here. Not super tight, but what I like to do is
just run my fingers on here just to hold it on here. Don't grab it too tight because you'll burn
your fingers after a while. And don't spool it, don't reel it really fast
because you can burn your fingers again. But just spool it on, it's that simple. The key thing you wanna have in mind here
is you want line to maintain right in the center of that baitcaster. Don't move the line at all, hold it in place,
let the baitcaster levelwind go back and forth and do it's thing. Just hold your hand right in place and don't
move with it. It's very straightforward. If you move it to one side or the other, you're
gonna pack the line on to one side of the spool or the other. So just leave your hand right there. Once you get it to just, you know, underneath
the spool there, underneath the lip of the spool, you're fine. Don't overfill it. Because if you fill it up too much, what happens
is the lever on the baitcaster, it's like a pendulum, you click it down, well the top
part moves away, the bottom moves in. And if you overfill it, the bottom part of
that thumb bar is gonna touch that line and it's gonna impede your casting.
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How to Spool a Spinning Reel | Spool Line | Avoid Tangles The Easy Way! by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource ā Go through just the first eye of your spinning
rod. And then what you wanna do is just...you're
gonna tie it on to your reel. And the way you do that is kind of an interesting
knot. It's called an Arbor knot. What you do is you take the tag end... This is where I need my glasses. Take the tag end, you wanna tie just a simple
overhand knot. Now once you do that, now you got a tag end. You wanna cut the tag end off, and then you
wanna tie it onto the spool. Just wrap the line around the spool. Again, make sure that bail is open. And then just tie another simple overhand
knot. Once you have that overhand knot done, just
cinch it down. What happens is that first knot that you made,
the line will cinch right down against it. Very simple. Now, the next thing I like to do is take a
little piece of tape. Just a real thin piece of scotch tape, and
I'd lay that right down on top of the knot that I just created. This does a couple things. First of all, it helps the knot from becoming
an issue when you lay the line down on it. But also it holds that line in place so it
makes it easier to spool onto the reel. All right. Next thing you wanna do, this is very simple
but, Iām gonna just start spooling it on.
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How To Spool A Baitcaster Reel | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource ā Hey folks, Glenn May here with BassResource.com. And today I wanna show you how to put line
on a baitcasting reel. It's pretty straightforward but there's a
few gotchas that can get you here. So first of all what I have here is a Berkley
Spooling Station. This I really like. I've had this for, I don't know, a couple
decades now. Berkley still makes 'em, you can get 'em on
their website, you can get 'em on Cabela's, Bass Pro Shop. What I recommend is see if your local tackle
store has it. Support your local tackle store if you can. But anyway, it's real easy to get these things. It's easy to...you just put your reel right
on here, put your spool on the other end, and it's easy to load your line. If you don't have one of these, then a real
cheap and effective way to do it is just take a pen, put it in the hole of your filler spool,
run your line down through your rod, then you put it on your reel when you're ready
to spool it. Then I just hold the pen or pencil in between
my feet and then I just reel like that. It's a simple holder, it's a little awkward,
but it works. But again, I recommend something like this. So here's how you do this. First of all what you wanna do is take your
line and guide it right through the eye of the baitcaster. And then, you see these wiffle spools here? These are perfect.
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How To Spool Braid On A Baitcaster | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource ā Hey folks, Glenn May here with BassResource.com. And today, I wanna talk to you about spooling
braid on your baitcasting reel. There's a couple little tricks about that
you really need to know in order to get the most benefit from braid. First of all what I've got here is a spooling
station here from Berkeley. I really like this, I've had this for, I don't
know, two or three decades now. I don't know how long I've had it, but it
works really well, it's inexpensive, great way to put your line on to the reel. You just attach your reel here, put your spool
here and you're ready to go. If you don't have something like this, you
can do it the old school way. The way I used to do it is just take a pencil
and put it between the...in the hole there on the spool. I'd take the line, put it through my rod,
and then I'd literally hold on to the spool with my two feet. Just grab the pencil on each side, hold it
between my feet and then I can just reel it on that way. But this spooling station makes it a lot easier,
it's not so awkward. So that's why I use it. All right, the first thing you need to do
is put your glasses on if you're my age, and then...so you can see what you're doing. You wanna take the line, you wanna put it
through the eye, this little eye of the baitcaster.
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How To Spool Braid On A Baitcaster | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource ā And then with a lot of these bait casters
these days, they've got these little holes like a waffle ball here in the spool. That makes it great, you can stick your line
in that and then just crank your reel just a little bit. Remember if you get like a six to one gear
ratio, one full turn of the reel handle's gonna turn that spool six times. So you don't need...you just need to bring
it round once. It'll bring that line through. Now you're ready here. What you wanna do is tie an arbor knot. This is a real simple knot, you just do a
quick overhand knot, and once you have that done, you clip off the tag end and that prevents
any problems once you get to start spooling the line on. You won't have any issues there. And now you just tie one more overhand knot
onto the line that's coming through your eye. Now what you gonna do is you gonna cinch it
down tight by pulling it through the front of the reel, and what'll happen is that knot
will hit that first knot that you made. It's gonna hold it in place so it won't come
undone. The last thing I wanna do is I wanna take
a little piece of tape here, just a little piece of scotch tape, real thin, and put it
right over that knot. That helps hold it in place on the reel and
kinda buffers that knot a little bit so it
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