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hey there guys. im new to this forum and pretty new to fishing. i just moved to virginia beach and bought a saltwater rod and an open faced spinning reel. i have been looking online on how to put line on the rod and i just dont understand. so someone please write up in the easiest way to understand on how to put line on an openfaced spinning reel. please and thanks guys also the spool or the silver part where i believe my line goes...doesnt spin when i spin the reel only the bail and botto do???
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Ok from your description it sounds like you are very new to fishing openfaced reels. So first let me say welcome to the angling community and welcome to the forum.
Now for the details: Open faced reels don't have a bail hence the term open faced.
Put your reel on the rod.
Take the line and run it through all the guides (starting at the top and work down toward the reel)
Next tie your line onto the spool.
Put a pencil through the spool of line and get someone to hold it. Now just reel the reel and have your friend put a little tension on the spool, have him wear a glove or use a towel so he doesn't get friction burn.
Closed face reel: Has a bail wire
Put your reel on the rod.
Take the line and run it through all the guides (starting at the top and work down toward the reel)
Open the bail
Next tie your line onto the spool.
Then close the bail
Put a pencil through the spool of line and get someone to hold it. Now just reel the reel and have your friend put a little tension on the spool, have him wear a glove or use a towel so he doesn't get friction burn.
Or the easiest way is take the reel to the tackle shop and pay the guy there to spool it using a spooling machine. Takes about 1 minute that way.
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well this morning i took my reel to a tackle shop and had the line put on by a machine. but now i have another question. all i have is the line on the spool...what do i attach it to before i run it up through the guides??? please let me know thanks for your help
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Always run the line through the guides, then attach your hook,snapswivel,etc to the line. What kind of fish are you going for? We could help with hook size ,bait and presentation.
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I will agree with Capt Joe to a certain extent, but he left a few things out on the subject of putting line on the reel.
On the bait caster/conventional reels, you need to make sure the line is stripping off the spool and going on the reel the same way. So, make sure the line is comming off the top of the spool of line. This way the line will wrap on the reel the same way it's comming of the spool. Mono line naturally has a certain amount of "memory." Memory is when a fishing line retains it's spiral shape when it comes off the spool. So, a line with very poor memory will coil up badly when there is no tension on the line. A line with low memory (which is good) will not have much of a spiral shape and when not under tension, will lay strait and flat.
When you spool up a spinning reel, I don't reccomend spooling it with the line being held up. If you try and spool a spinning reel in the same fashion as a baitcaster, the line will twist on the reel. What you should do is lay the spool on the ground and this will allow the line to "unwrap" from the spool and wrap on your reel the same direction, with out getting any line twist.
There was a perfect example of how spooling a reel improperly can effect it's performance. This weekend, during a pier fishing trip here in SC, a fella had me toss out his reel to stretch out the line. He had been having issues with it as it was a new reel and rod. He had a Penn Squidder with 25lb Cajun red strapped on a heavy action Penn Slammer rod. I might add the Cajun red line had some really, really bad Memory. I pulled out some slack and it coiled up like a spring. But, we added a 5oz lead to the end and I gave it a good toss, about 200 yards out or so. The first thing I noticed when I casted the reel is the line was jumping very badly on the spool while the weight was on the way out. It was very hard to thumb the spool with out loosing distance. Once I got the lead reeled in, I stopped it about 4' from the eye of the pole and it sat there and spun for like a minute strait. This is no joke, Saltwaterron was right there watching. LOL I asked him how he spooled the line on the reel, and he said he sat the spool on the table and let it "unwrap" while he reeled in on. This caused the line to twist on the reel, which made it difficult to cast, probably made the memory on the line alot worse than it wouldn've been, and also made it impossible to use that reel trolling. Anyone that's tried trolling with a reel that has had line improperly installed will tell you it won't happen. Twisted line can cause spoons in excess of 3.5" to spin in the water and have poor action.
This is pretty basic stuff that alot of anlgers never learned. But no biggie, we're all here to help out. Now Captjoeverdino on the other hand, likes his line twisted. He uses Bahamas Mamma Hoola lures that work best when spinned. LOL!!!!!! [sly] Sorry Joe, I gotta pick on you because you are a pro guide.
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