having issues with Braid on spinning Reel.

[DJD]

Well yesterday for father's day me and my dad went out to do some river fishing and i spooled up a old Mitchell Spinning reel with Spiderwire Stealth braid in 10lb in high vis yellow.My father likes the high vis line as it is easy for him to see when fishing bottom with shakey head or texas rig.So we go out and he is using a 1/8 ounch texas rig with pegged sinker and we are pitching into downed timber and brush and was consistently getting lots of knots and line twisting up to where you had to cut and retie.

I know a lot use braid on spinning reels so looking for some advise to remedy this as he loved the sensitivity of the braid.When i was spooling it up i wrapped tape around the spool before spooling it as that is the only way i have ever done with braid line

I use Fireline on my spinning reels and the only time I have experienced twist was if my soft plastic was on bad and the bait corkscrewed and twisted as I retreived the lure. If the line it put on properly, bail is closed manually after a cast and the lure isn't twisted upon retrieving you prolly has some bad line. JMO.

[riverrat12]

I use Fireline on my spinning reels and the only time I have experienced twist was if my soft plastic was on bad and the bait corkscrewed and twisted as I retreived the lure. If the line it put on properly, bail is closed manually after a cast and the lure isn't twisted upon retrieving you prolly has some bad line. JMO.

That's it Don bad line,I to use mainly fireline but have used all of them for years.That being said and not to bash a product will simple never use Stealth again. It wasn't so much the twist in the line but the knots that popped up in the middle of the spool.It seemed to be waxier and therefore couldn't get the knot out. And not sure because it's been years but isn't Stealth a hybrid type mono\braid? Chuck

[riverrat12]

That's it Don bad line,I to use mainly fireline but have used all of them for years.That being said and not to bash a product will simply never use Stealth again. It wasn't so much the twist in the line but the knots that popped up in the middle of the spool.It seemed to be waxier and therefore couldn't get the knot out. And not sure because it's been years but isn't Stealth a hybrid type mono\braid? Chuck

Aaaah GOOGLE is good....It's a Teflon/ braid. I stand corrected. Gettin old bites

[ls1chris]

I Dont think it has to do with the way i put it on unless maybe the tape is causing a issue.As When i spool any of my reels up the line gets layed in the floor spool facing up and i apply tension while i crank the line on with a slow and steady retrieve.And usually on braid after spooling i will spray with reel magic and tie off to a stump and walk about 100 or so feet out then put even more tension on and walk back while i reel up the line.I have done this with baitcasting and spinning reels for the most part every time i spool up



The only lures he was using that day was shakey head with cut tail worms and texas rig ,granted it may have twisted some when casting the texas rig.But i still think he had about 4 or so knots between the spool and the first eye on the rod that day where he had to cut and retie.It may have been a bad spool of line but one thing i did notice was the line was bright yellow when we started and about halfway through the day it lost a good amount of color and was almost white looking .i will definetly be getting some more braid to put on and trie as for fishing in heavy cover and the sensitivity of the line my father liked it very well.I typically use about 8 pound line on the spinning reels and in braid i think it was 10lb test with 6lb diameter of the stealth braid he was using

[crappiepappy]

I Dont think it has to do with the way i put it on unless maybe the tape is causing a issue.As When i spool any of my reels up the line gets layed in the floor spool facing up and i apply tension while i crank the line on with a slow and steady retrieve.And usually on braid after spooling i will spray with reel magic and tie off to a stump and walk about 100 or so feet out then put even more tension on and walk back while i reel up the line.I have done this with baitcasting and spinning reels for the most part every time i spool up



The only lures he was using that day was shakey head with cut tail worms and texas rig ,granted it may have twisted some when casting the texas rig.But i still think he had about 4 or so knots between the spool and the first eye on the rod that day where he had to cut and retie.It may have been a bad spool of line but one thing i did notice was the line was bright yellow when we started and about halfway through the day it lost a good amount of color and was almost white looking .i will definetly be getting some more braid to put on and trie as for fishing in heavy cover and the sensitivity of the line my father liked it very well.I typically use about 8 pound line on the spinning reels and in braid i think it was 10lb test with 6lb diameter of the stealth braid he was using

OK ... since you've probably eliminated the twist coming from the spooling method used, it may have been the baits doing the twisting. NOW ... as far as the "knots" that showed up : commonly called "wind knots", but in my experience with casting braid ... they seem to occur more often from quick "wrist snap" casts. If you cast with a smooth/fluid motion, those knots don't seem to occur as often. I think these knots were occurring on the cast, & just not noticed until they became a problem (or were noticed). I say that, because if your lines were so twisted that they formed the knots, simply from the severe twist in the line, then I doubt much casting would have been possible.

... pappy