I was fishing a light jig under a bobber, and this happened a couple times along with a few wind knots.
Is this a symptom of insufficient line tension?
The reel worked normally before and after this picture, I dont understand how it could reel low like this.
The braid is pretty light, 10 or 15 lb, the thickness of 2lb mono.
Posted by windisokay
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Way too much line on the reel
It almost looks like you took the spool off and didn’t put it back on correctly, meaning it is sitting too high on the main shaft.
Sometimes reels will spool more line toward the top or bottom of the spool and this can be corrected with shims, but in this case 50% of the line is not even within the spool, it’s on the skirt outside the spool – that is extreme and I think there’s some form of user error happening here.
Also, reeling without tension on the line certainly isn’t helping the issue
A couple things could have happened.
The line was slack when you reeled it in. There wasn’t tension on the line so it fell below the line roller and didn’t lay on the spool properly. To fix, remove the line and spool it back on under tension.
The reel could have been damaged. Inspect the spool shaft by loosening and removing your drag knob and removing the spool. See if the shaft is stuck or if it moves freely without the handle turning.
Without inspecting it those are my best guesses.
Yea couple things.
First, you’re right, it is not spooling evenly, which means the spool is ever so slightly lower or higher than it should be. If your case the spool is too high, so the line is being laid along the lower part of the spool. You can fix this by removing the spool and finding the little plastic washers on the spindle. There’s usually several that are all stacked on top of each other. Remove one, put the spool back on, give it some reels, and see how well the line lays evenly on the spool.
Second is you have too much line on the spool. This is contributing to the wind knots and making the uneven spooling more drastic seeming. Usually most spools have a little lip that signals where the line should stop at, but if yours doesn’t have that then shoot for about 1/16” from the edge of the top of the spool. I would also suggest taking the line off first and then working on the spool washers I talked about above!
Edit: just zoomed in on the photo and what I thought was extra line on the spool was actually wrapped around the lower part of the spool itself! So first take all that off so the like is coming off the spool properly, then fix the spool height on the spindle, then check how much line you have.