Iām relatively new to fishing. Iāve gone fishing my entire life with family and things like that but just got into going by myself a few weeks ago. This is my girlfriends pole and while we were fishing late at night I tripped over her pole since it was dark while the bail was open and somehow this happened. I am so lost and confused I donāt know if I need to take the entire spool out and re-do it or if there is an easier way to fix this.
Posted by Far-Cucumber-6654
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ahh, classic wind knot. donāt worry about it, no need to take apart the spool. happens when you have line slack around your spool and you reel back over it, commonly due to heavy wind hence the name wind knot. easiest way iāve found to get them out is loosening your drag all the way and pulling line out til the knots are out
edit: forgot to add this part, make sure thereās no line caught around the reel itself! that will make it 20x worse if you start pulling and reeling it back in
A knife, determination, and a lot of time solves most things.
Untangle it from under the spool, get the end of it under the bail, tie the end to something and loosen the drag and back up until it isnāt shitty, and then tighten the drag a bit and reel in with tension while walking towards whatever you tied to
U got an anti reverse switch at the bottom flip it and start pulling the line till U get rid of the slack then reel it back in properly and flip the switch back