I bought one of those Plano line spooler boxes that holds like 5 spools of line. I will spray the spool with kvd line conditioner and spray some on a rag. Then I hold the line with the rag pretty tight and that works well for me. And I put the spool where it comes off counter clockwise. But before I got the Plano box I would spray a rag and use a phone book. Open the book in the middle close it on the line the spool will butt up against the book. It helps strait the line out before it goes on the spool. Hope this helps you.