Got my Shimano SLX XT spooled at Cabela’s and bought 150 yards of line and told the employee it can hold 130 yards.
I came back and the guy told me “I saw there was room so I was gonna put on the full 150 and it turns out there was 200 yards of line in there.”
Just wanted to see how negatively it would affect casting and bird nesting as it’s my first time using braid.
Should I pull some line out and cut it or just let it rock?
Posted by TristanHuyett
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Who gets someone else to spool their line?? Lol
Yes its too much, and very uneven
It’s a little bit overspooled but not crazy. Depends how tightly it went on too. Braid should be spooled pretty tightly but if it went on loosely it will look a bit more fluffed up. It tends to work itself out, if it’s too much you might end up backlashing too often and losing a bit somehow. You could take a little bit off in advance though. The reel will let you know.
I would cut some off so you can see the chamfer on the spool. Probably 20 yards or so i would guess.
Yes
Yeah overfilled, I’d remove line until you’re about 2mm from the edge of the other flange.
Itll fish
Oh you’ll see. Just go cast it a few times. After you’ve cut enough birds nest off it won’t be over spooled anymore
There is a chamfer on the on the rim of most spools that marks the normal max. Over spooling will make backlash more frequent and braid is much harder to untangle. I rarely use braid but when I do I put at least a ¼ spool base of mono. Spools hold over 100 yards but rarely ever need more than 40-50 so I save some money by not using a full spool.
Well it’s better than being under
Yall are a bunch of snobs. This’ll fish.
Throw it into the trees a few times. You’ll be right where you need to be.
Tie the line to something outside. Walk out as much line as you can. Start walking back to where you started while reeling the line and keeping good pressure on the line and a bend in the rod. Keep going until you’ve got about a 1/16 gap between the line and the beveled part of the spool. Cutoff whatever is left between the tie off point and the end of the rod.
I do this process (minus cutting excess) every time I put new line on a reel. It gets braid tight to the spool and gets some of the memory out of fluoro.
Ride that spool with your thumb or you will be sorry 😞