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i normally pride myself on the extremely low number of birdies i get when casting/fishing,
well yesterday i went out for a couple of hours, one one reel, every cast birdied before the lead hit the water, i adjusted all sorts, even putting the mags on full (using big bait) but still it did it,
i figured i'd drop the reel into the shop for a service, figured it was full of sand or something,
well, to a degree, there was some crap around it, which was kinda holding the spool, so when i loosened the end cap, expecting some end float, there was none, but it did speed it up, do em up.... no loss of end float but slowed down ! so something wasn't right there...
it turned out that the reel was just running tooooooo fast, most likely as a result of my messing with the end knobs while fishing. a bit of fiddling around had it just right,
apparently, with no mags and in free spool, you want the spool to spin for about 15 secs, apparently a local caster swears to that, any faster and you'll birdie, mine continued well past the 30 second mark !
sooo, if you're birdying lots, have a look at the time it takes the spool to stop,
well yesterday i went out for a couple of hours, one one reel, every cast birdied before the lead hit the water, i adjusted all sorts, even putting the mags on full (using big bait) but still it did it,
i figured i'd drop the reel into the shop for a service, figured it was full of sand or something,
well, to a degree, there was some crap around it, which was kinda holding the spool, so when i loosened the end cap, expecting some end float, there was none, but it did speed it up, do em up.... no loss of end float but slowed down ! so something wasn't right there...
it turned out that the reel was just running tooooooo fast, most likely as a result of my messing with the end knobs while fishing. a bit of fiddling around had it just right,
apparently, with no mags and in free spool, you want the spool to spin for about 15 secs, apparently a local caster swears to that, any faster and you'll birdie, mine continued well past the 30 second mark !
sooo, if you're birdying lots, have a look at the time it takes the spool to stop,