Spooling a spin with braid?

[tracker12]

I picked up a stradic 8000 and want to spool it with a braid. Never did a reel for bigger game. How do you all spool it. I want to use 50# braid and a 10 yard top shot. Do you all do it youself or take it to a shop.

[lite-liner]

and I thought I was the only one who used the "redneck" method for
loading spools under drag! little hint- DON'T try this on your wife's new carpet!!!!
I actually graduated to putting my screwdriver in a vice w/ an old spark
plug boot installed between the spool & vice for proper drag adjustments.
seems to work better(wife is hitting me less often)!
Like Mark sez, wear a belt or something, cause it's just like reeling
against 20# of drag. I also wet the spectra before spooling it, helps it get tighter.
I actually have a "rod" that I use. it's a broke-in-half old Daiwa that
seats all my offshore reels & has only 2 guides on it.
hope this helps
tight lines
-Brian

[MrBill]

You guys are bunch of hillbilly carpet staining rednecks.


I've been using the device in the below picture for a couple of years. I clamp it to a table and sit in a portable folding stainless fighting chair with a gimbal from Boaters World. You can adjust the tension via a spring loaded drag. Sometimes it tightens itself as you spool. You can drag a three hundred pound table towards the fighting chair. That's when you get up and readjust the tension. (I've broken 80lb mono when the table moves) You can mount up to 5 pounds spools on it.

[hatidua]

Originally Posted by MrBill

You guys are bunch of hillbilly carpet staining rednecks.

where did that there fancy device come from? (the one with the line on it, not the rubber chinese shoes).

[BretABaker]

mr bill - why am i not surprised you have some gadget to do this lol

[Uncle Russ]

MrBill: How do you fit that portable fighting chair in that sorry, cheap single-wide of yours??? I'll swear to it: If one of us came up with a way to make a perfect copy of Michaelangelo's David, in pure Carrera marble, MrBill would post a picture of one he made in the third grade--in candy apple red, with lightning shooting out its ass!

Russ

[MrBill]

Originally Posted by hatidua

where did that there fancy device come from? (the one with the line on it, not the rubber chinese shoes).

I bought it on ebay. I think this is the same guy in the link below. Looks like he made some adjustments to the one I bought a couple years ago. I've spooled about a hundred reels with it and it's still going strong.

I didn't mean to put up that picture of my wore out crocks vs new ones.
I took the crock picture to enter a contest of the most wore out crocks. I still wear those green ones without any tread. They are my go to comfortable shoe.

LINE WIZZARD FISHING SPOOLER STREN BERKLEY PENN YOZURI - eBay (item 190230267067 end time Jun-23-08 13:42:19 PDT)

[MrBill]

Originally Posted by Uncle Russ

MrBill: How do you fit that portable fighting chair in that sorry, cheap single-wide of yours???
Russ

Your memory is going south. It's a double wide.

[tracker12]

Great ideas. Thanks. I like that tool. Might just pick one of those things up.

[Uncle Russ]

MrBill:It's been going south a long, long time--almost to the south pole. You know, that really isn't a bad price for that sucker. I may have to have one as well.

Russ

[hatidua]

Originally Posted by Uncle Russ

MrBill:It's been going south a long, long time--almost to the south pole. You know, that really isn't a bad price for that sucker. I may have to have one as well.

Russ

monkey-see, monkey-do......I just bought one of those devices off eBay in order to extend the life of my heavy-duty $1.99 screw driver for purposes other than spooling reels.

Uncle Russ, if you get one, you can return the wooden pasta spoon to the kitchen!