Penn Pro - power 10X fishing line

[Gbanger]

use it for trace material bottom bashing, it seems to go through a lot before starting to fray... havent been dissapointed so far...

[Kenny]

i just put the line on the spool and man is it a pain in the arse. i got it on and it kept making loops while tring to wind it on. when i pulled the by the drag to fix the loops it has signs of abrasion on the line from rubbing on it. looks alright and i will have to try it out this weekend or something like that.

You probably need to pop a pen or cylindrical rod into the new spool of line, so that you can use your toes or whatever to apply a bit of tension/pressure to the new spool when you're transferring/winding the line to the reel's spool. The applied tension stops the line from getting out of control, and helps to pack the line properly onto your reel's spool.

I forgot to mention that the original spool of line should look like this when you're winding in the line onto your reelspool.......the direction of line coming from the original spool should roughly be pointed straight at the line-guide on your spool, and you can place your left toe on the left side of the original spool and right toe on the right side of the original spool to stop the line from being loose when you're doing the line transfer. Naturally, the shaft of the pen must be mounted across something (like blocks etc) and fastened/secured (sticky tape maybe) so that the original spool can spin on its axis.
|||||||&#124 ; <------- spool
|||||||&#124 ;
=====|||||||&#1 24;==== <------ shaft of pen or long screwdriver
=====|||||||&#1 24;====
|||||||&#124 ;
|||||||&#124 ;

(The graphic characters aren't evenly spaced, so the pic above may look slightly off).

[Biff]

Place ya spool of line in a bucket of room temp water, when winding on, the spool of line will float & spin in the bucket of water.

[wayne_cook]

Line tends to have memory but seems to be tuff.
fill ur spool close to the top it will compress down a little.
sounds like u wound line on off the side of spool ,make sure it spools of top of host spool.

[Tony_N]

Listen to Bear. #- # When winding line onto an overhead/baitcaster the spool of new line should be facing you vertically with the edge toward you #ie like a wheel coming toward you with the line coming off the top. You should apply some tension to the line as it goes on.
If you have done it differently you can always trail the line in the water behind a boat and that will take the twist out of it and stop the sproinging. Have nothing on the end of the line.

Tony

[Jono757]

yeah i did it all right but my spool comes down on an angle to the middle where it has little holes that are drilled all the way through, then back up a slant to the other side. when the line guide when to the side the line slipped back to the middle and this caused the knots. but thats all over i got it on and now i just need to practice casting.

[wayne_cook]

jono 1 tip I tend to remove the level wind on all my reels.Personal choice I feel the advantages of not having it outway the level wind advantage.

[Kenny]

jono 1 tip I tend to remove the level wind on all my reels.Personal choice I feel the advantages of not having it outway the level wind advantage.

Hi there bear! How does the reel wind the line evenly onto the spool if level wind is removed?

[grave41]

I must have a bad batch because i threw it away and went back to berkley vanish after losing 3 fish in a row. Never lost another fish on vanish. Graham

[2iar]

When I bought my new Baitrunner 6500 a few weeks ago I let the tackle store recommend a mono, and this is what they chose (30lb). Nothing in it for them, as I didn't have a budget that I let them know about, so I'm happy it's a suitable quality.

I'm generally happy with it, but it does have some twists in it - this didn't come from the initial spooling as this was done by machine in the shop, so I reckon it's either because I've excitedly been winding when a fish is stripping line from the drag, or it's just "twisty" by nature. I'll retension it from the boat next time I'm out and see if that fixes it.

Good luck,
Mike

[wayne_cook]

[quote author=brrbear link=1147774271/15#21 date=1147853175]jono 1 tip I tend to remove the level wind on all my reels.Personal choice I feel the advantages of not having it outway the level wind advantage.

Hi there bear! How does the reel wind the line evenly onto the spool if level wind is removed?
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Fingers grasshopper fingers (jono ? was about overheads it's simple to lay line even with a little practice) (practice in dark the same as hook tieing)

cheers bear

[Kenny]

Fingers grasshopper fingers (jono ? was about overheads it's simple to lay line even with a little practice) (practice in dark the same as hook tieing)

cheers bear

Cool. I'll have to read up on this and check out the benefits of that. I've been using overheads for approx 20 years, and before that was threadline/eggbeater. I liked the overhead because it actually has level-winding guide, and of course the overheads don't have a habit of twisting the line.

Kenny