thanks for the help guys, all much appreciated. I have pulled off about 50m of line from the spool and wound it back on with pressure on the line, so will have to see if that fixes the problem. I noticed when i was pulling the line off that it would sort of stick to the line on the spool, not come off cleanly, would this be because of the superbraid?

I am seriously thinking about taking it off this reel and putting it on my TSM III for trolling and bottom bouncing duty, and just buying some mono for the spinning reel (too poor to afford any more braid )

As i said before i bought this set up spinning for macs etc up in the torres strait so needed some heavy gear, am just using it with SP's for know, i probly should just go down to BCF and get their $59 combo with a 2kg shimano rod with 2500 size reel, would be a good setup for SP's.