Thread: Tying line on a reel

Braid will slip on the spool! It does not matter how tite or loose you spoil it but it will slip. You can either do the mono trick or I use a drop of super glue! I have also tied it to the spool them put a piece of electrical tape around the spool!

#1 on what Erin said, it will slip bad. #2 why spend all that money on a bunch of line you don't use, spool it half way full of cheap mono then top it off with your braid. Rarely are you going to use more than 50 ft unless pulling cranks and still don't need but 100 ft.

I tie a loop knot, run the line through the loop on the spool, haven't had any slip. Some of my reels have 12 year old braid. I use 30/8 braid.

You can put a wrap of black tape on your spool to stop the braid from slipping on it.

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Originally Posted by cray

#1 on what Erin said, it will slip bad. #2 why spend all that money on a bunch of line you don't use, spool it half way full of cheap mono then top it off with your braid. Rarely are you going to use more than 50 ft unless pulling cranks and still don't need but 100 ft.

I just got done putting new red braid line on 12 baitcasters and didn't put over 100 yards on any of them. Cheap 10 pound mono was used to almost fill the spools. If the red fades or the line wears for a while, I'll back spool all the reels and put the fresh line on top, old stuff buried on the spool. All of these are spider rig or planer board reels.

Like they said above. Put some cheap backing line on the reel and use a uni knot or overhand knot to attach your braid to the backing line.

On baitcasters for spider rigging I just put 50 yards on and then if it starts to show some wear I can just transfer it to a different reel and now I have new line again from the fact it never got used.