Bought a Shimano Sedona yesterday. Had the guy on the store spool it with braid (Spiderwire ez braid 30lb). Had nothing but problems with it. Line kept falling off the spool on the retrieve, and every 5th cast or so the line kept knotting up. Trimmed 20 yards or so of the braid off the line, still kept having issues. Is the braid shit? Did the guy fuck up? Any insight would be helpful
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This means that the line is loose when you are reeling in, general advice would be to make sure your line is taut before you start retrieving, what type of fishing are you doing and what is the weight of the gear on your line?
This happened to me every time when I started fishing. When you cast, manually close the bail when the bait hits the water, and make sure you don’t have slack hanging. It becomes muscle memory, and now I cast all day with no issues! (Minus the pollen tufts)
Don’t use your reel To flip your bell use your hand that way, you can put tension on the line with your one hand while you reel with the other hand.
Wow, that’s the worst spooling job I’ve seen in recent time and the person should’ve realised that.
The problem is that the spool is sitting too high on the spindle, the metal shaft that moves up and down when you turn the handle the spool moves too high and it’s laying line on the outer spool face. You can see this because the line is laying very unevenly towards the top. It’s also loose as fuck.
Remove your spool by turning the drag all the way down and sliding it off, there should be a small clear washer.
Take all your line off, put the spool back and and respool under tension by turning your drag full, putting the line through at least your largest guide and holding your line about 10″ Infront of your reel.
Your line will be straighter, will lay better, cast better and that shouldn’t happen anymore unless you retrieve line that’s too slack.