I am "actually" working!

Aaron, I understood what you meant on the first go round! Amazing right.

To help everyone else out:
He marked out 50 feet on the ground, hit the clicker, and when he got to 50 feet, the counter read 30. Which means he has in fact got too much line on!!

Use an old reel and reverse off the line you want to keep, get in to the backing, remove that, and spool back on. It's cold outside, what else do you have to do?