Quote Originally Posted by mrdux View Post
Line twist isn't an issue pulling cranks? I wish that were true on KY and Barkley where we deal with multitudes of yellow bass, catfish, and other assorted things that make line twist a huge issue and the main reason I run a snap swivel.
But, isn't that snap swivel on the opposite end of the leader, than where the crank is ?? Not much you can do about the fish "spinning" and twisting line ... but, an out of alignment crank or one that picks up some debris will turn over in a wide circle, not just spin around and around (like a blade on an inline spinner) ... and I haven't found even the ball bearing high dollar swivels to do much about line twist, in any scenario. They might relieve a little of the twist, but they haven't shown me anything. I tried using them on inline spinners, like Rooster Tails or Shysters (both the cheap gold ones and the ball bearing Sampo's) and they did little to nothing about line twist. The only thing that stopped line twist for me (when using those spinners) was when Rooster Tail started making their line eye in an offset oval shape, instead of the O shaped eye of their original spinners.