Thread: Putting it together......

Originally Posted by callshy

Do it. Just make sure you have the same amount of line on each reel. Okumas are the way to go in my book.

Why do you need the same amount of line on each reel?

This is what I decided on.

Originally Posted by BAMA S

Why do you need the same amount of line on each reel?

From my intense internet research, you need to run each rod at different line lengths to be able to cover multiple depths at one pass. if you hit the magic depth, all reels need to be able to spool out that much line. I also stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last week. Callshy is the man on dragging cranks so he might shed more light. You went with a very nice reel. I cheeped out and bought the Okuma Madga Proline reel MA-15DX for $30.00 ea. I do much more spider rigging and trolling jigs so my spinning reels work fine for that. Do very little crank dragging and from what I understand, it is more of a reservoir tactic than a river tactic and that white crappie are more apt to hit a crankbait than a black. Sometimes I read too much.

Yep, I read a lot also. I wonder how much I retain???. We are on a big lake , soooooo I'm gonna try these cranks.

Originally Posted by BAMA S

Why do you need the same amount of line on each reel?

The reel will read different half full verses full, less line comes off at half full per revolution and that is how the line is measured. Need to be full and all the same so as to be able to duplicate.

Dang it man.... I m learning something new every day. That makes sense. There is a lot of technical stuff to this feeshing nowadays.

I'm a smarter man now. I would have just assumed that 1ft. of line is 1ft. of line whether full, 3/4, or 1/2 spool. Thanks Rees G/S.

I had a guy tell me last year he was fishing 150 back, went with him to the lake and that's about all the line he had on the reels, might have actually been 70 foot back. Its all relative, spool em the same and you have your reference, spool em full and you will be in line with the charts, remember too that line out starts where it enters the water too, I have my rod tips down on the water but if you have them up then the count would start where the line enters the water, say 70 feet off the reel but doesn't enter the water for 20 feet then its really 50 foot out as you are comparing to the charts.
Good luck and have fun, seems like rocket science but its not, more common sense than anything else.