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Location: Metro , Mille Lacs, and G. Rapids | Is it recommended that you spool with some mono before putting braid on let me hear what you guys think ... Thanks! |
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Location: Savage, MN | I always have to save some money on line rather than having leftovers that generally go to waste. |
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Location: Maplewood, MN | Yes. Mono grips the spool much better so your line wont slip on the spool. |
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Location: sneaking out to get on the water ;-) | Yes on the backing. As mentioned you need some kind of backing or the braid will slip. I fill mine with enough mono of equal diameter so that I only have to use 90 yards of braid. |
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Location: MN | I apply a layer of electrical tape to the bare spool
Never a slip.
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| What size mono do you guys typically use? |
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Location: Northern New Jersey | typically something with about the same line diameter as your braid. i normally use 12 or 14lb mono as backing |
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Location: Savage, MN | I believe that the mono backing I use is 12lb as well. I was able to find a large spool at a garage sale a few years ago for $1 or something close to that. (Have to save a buck somewhere in this sport) Works perfect for backing. I too also put a small piece of electrical tape on my mono knot around the spool. |
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| I tried to match the diameter of the braid. I think I used 20lb big game??
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Location: Kronenwetter, WI | Plus, it doesn't make sense to me to fill a large spool with expensive line when you never really cast far enough to use most of it. I fill with mono and leave room for about 100 yds of braid. That way I can strip and cut away frayed ends as the season goes on and still have enough to finish the season. Some guys fill a spool with braid then reverse load it onto a different reel for the next season, thereby getting fresh line again. |
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Posts: 139
| i put electrical tape on the spool first and put all braid on. No need for a mono backing. Some say its cheaper using mono backing and may save you like $5 in the end, but if you are musky fishing, the cost of braid is the least of your expenses. |
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| No mono for me. Tie your spool knot and then wrap some electrical tapeover that and fill spool. Line will not slip on spool. Next season wind that line onto another reel and you get 2 seasons out of the same line. Braid all the way. Just my $0.02 |
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| For those of you that use only braid, do you still do that on larger reels with 200 -400 yards line capacity? It just seems really expensive and pointless to have a large spool reel completely full of braid when at the absolute most maybe 50 yards is used? I leave space for 90-100 yards of braid only on my reels, then about once a season I "flip" it around so its like new again. Putting anymore than that 90-100 yards of braid just seems wasteful, but I guess if you have the extra cash to burn might as well. |
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| Yep for me.. all my reels are 400b's or SC Avids.. Really the cost isn't that big of a deal. You can get 3+ seasons out of a $25 spool of braid. Mono just never made any sense to me. Spool with mono, then screw around with tying a knot that has to be reliable, etc.... and usually, especially after a hard day of fishing, i take 7-9 feet of line off my reel and cut, re-tie. 60 yards would go quick. Again, braid is the least costly of my worries when it comes to musky fishing. I mean, rods, reels, baits, and then boats and gas etc.... braid is cheap comparing. |
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Location: 31 | I’m with the consensus of reversing the line on my casting reels… just seems unnecessarily wasteful to throw away perfectly good line to me, but to each his own.
The most convenient way I found to reverse line is when you have several different reels with different amounts of backing, or easier yet; run the line out on the ground and reattach the other end after adding extra backing.
The most important aspect to me while filling casting reels is a super tight, completely full spool. I tie it off to a tree and then rewind everything as even and tight as possible. The reason I prefer a full super tight spool is for better casting distance, faster line pickup, and less severe backlashes. It takes more line to reload it super tight, so overfilling the spool initially is required for a completely full spool. |
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| What Jerry said above...
I've got enough mono backing on all of my reels for 50 yards of braid on the outside. (that took some work with a tree and a tape measure) 50 yards is ALMOST enough. Next time I re-spool, I'm going to 75 yards. Two reels out of a spool, flip every other year, plenty of line left for cutting/re-tying.
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