Spooling problems

[SpecialK]

So I stupidly let cabelas spool a reel for me since I don't have a spooling station here. They did not get the line near tight enough( Or at least I don't think they did. It is a Penn 6/0 and the braid is digging into the spool at about 25lbs of drag.

Is there some tricky way of unspooling and respooling tighter at my house? Or is letting line off the back of a boat with a lure of some sort and then reeling it in going to be tight enough?

Cabelas says they cannot spool the line any tighter. I don't know if I believe that or if it is just easier for them to say they can't.

Help....

[lite-liner]

Kurtis- Here's what I do, although it's pretty redneck, it works.
Take your spool of line & poke a #2 screwdiver through it, add an old spark
plug boot for tension & clamp it in your vice for about 10# drag.
reel it up through your guides. by the time you've got 300y on there,
you'll be just as tired as if you just boated a 50# tuna, then you'll know it's tight enough. also soak the spool in warm water beforehand.
in your case, what's already on there has to come off & be re-spooled.
like it is, your first cast will probably be your last. just let it all out off the back of the boat on the way out to the rigs.
hope this helps
-Brian

[TeamOso]

but i would NOT attach anything to the line just let it loose of the stern or else u wont be able to 1. reel it back in and 2. proly wont be able to stop it from completely spooling u with that much pressure, good luck iva had same problems with some spinners from academy

[SkeeterRonnie]

you can run it off the back of a boat - and then wind it in. has to be off a slower type boat, not the BIG E type speed boats.. You will probably need to buy a 50 yd topshot of line, because you will have a lot of spool space left over after you tighten it up

[SpecialK]

Originally Posted by SkeeterRonnie

you can run it off the back of a boat - and then wind it in. has to be off a slower type boat, not the BIG E type speed boats.. You will probably need to buy a 50 yd topshot of line, because you will have a lot of spool space left over after you tighten it up

Let it all off without anything attached?
I have no problem waiting until then and doing that if you guys think it will work.

I'll definately know next time that I should just send my spool in....

[TeamOso]

Originally Posted by SpecialK

Let it all off without anything attached?
I have no problem waiting until then and doing that if you guys think it will work.

I'll definately know next time that I should just send my spool in....

Im not sure that u were directly asking me but on the cat boats we do that all the time when people dont wind the line out and just wind it up to one side and we have to re do that, just let it out nothing attached our boats cruise at 13knots so i dont know about the big e being able to do that,

[SkeeterRonnie]

yes- BUT! we both HOPE they tied the knot onto the spoll good. WE can looop the spectra NEAR the bottom of the reel spool around something to hold it when it gets close to make sure it was tied on well, and has vet wrap on it to keep from slipping. We can wrap it around teh butt of my heaviest rod to hold it while it gets retied onto the spool. Order a 50yd topshot from basil of 80# line (whatever your preference is). I imagine this is your bottom/heavy chunk rig?

yes- nothing on the end of the line.. that much line in the water creates a lot of drag/pull on the line.

(THANK YOU SNAGGED (mean ol crab) for showing me this tactic) . I will have a couple to do the same way.

[ksong]

Respool to another reel and spool it with some drag on the other reel.

[jureal]

Unfortunately, the ole Triangle line winders are underpowered to properly wind on spectra onto reels unless it is the model that costs upwards of $2000 to acquire and that model has the motor with the guts to put that spectra on. The HD Triangle winders were not made to put spectra on... just mono. That line winder is very much in use in most tackle stores today. The shops that specialize in spectra and longrange/big game fishing have the heavier duty models. Just be sure what machines they have before they spool your reels. I have a Sato Line Winder that uses a 6 amp 1/2 inch drill for a motor that that has the guts to really wind on the spectra tight onto any reel. For the cost of $300 for the Sato kit plus the cost of a hand drill, it comes out to less than $400 and is a very good investment if you do a lot of reels with spectra. That spectra needs to come off the reels for washing periodically or else your spool will start to rust out. I don't like the letting of line out behind the boat as you are forcing salt intrusion deep down into your spool of line and making the rust problem worst. When fishing, most of that line never sees the salt water so the salt intrusion, while it still occurs, will be lessen. Spectra needs periodic fresh water washing so the investment into a good strong line winder is a must, in my opinion. What I have heard other do is the following. They wind the spectra under as much tension as they can onto a reel like a Penn 6/0 or the bigger 9/0. Then the mount the reel onto a rod and reel the spectra back onto their target reel against the drag of the 6/0 or 9/0 reel. Of course, you will need a way to hold the rod with the Penn reel still while you reel all that spectra back onto your target reel.

Kil, you were typing while I was typing too. You have the short version but we do agree in the end. lol

[SkeeterRonnie]

good idea.. I need to find a big ol penn 10/0 at a pawn shop and replace the drags with smoothies and mount in a vise. I have thought about taking my boat out in freshwater and letting all the line out and draggin it around for a little while.... hopefully not through some jetskiiers... although that would be funny... until I realized how much that line costs...