Hi everyone, new member here with an old problem that wont go away.
I recently bought a R2F Catfish Spincast to allow me to go for bigger fish. I went out on the lake today, and shortly after starting, the line pretty much exploded in my hand and left me with a handful of line. After fixing this, I continued fishing and the line again jumped out of the reel. This happened three times. After two hours of hardly fishing, I called it quits.
The line kept on getting tangled in the reel and was having loops stick out of it... that wasn't the case when I left the house.
Any ideas of how to correct this?
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I know exactly what you did wrong.
you spooled the reel with the wrong type of line.
I suggest you pull all that line off of the reel and toss it.
then get your self some silver thread n40... "personal prefferance"
there are different grades of line, and they are used for different applications. what you have on your reel is used primarialy for trolling with bait casting reels.
if you would have said that you get an ocational tangle I would have said it is because of line twist caused from not using a barrol swivil on your lures.
In that case, the company spooled the reel with the wrong type of line!
I'll have to check out the silver thread. Thank you.
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dave t clown is right. it 's probley the line if not a mechianl problem. i find all the companies do is spool on junk hard mono line that just unspools and tangle to easiy. best reamdy for it is spool on a good line like silve thread trileane xl not xt the trileane xt will do the same thing its the super tuff line that has memory. if using a spinning reel constantly the xl can do it too. i think you own a spin cast which is very much the same as a spining reel just different terms . try respooling see if that works.
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absolutly,
I have never seen a factory spooled reel that had a deacent line on it, they put junk on it, I mean the cheepest stuff they can find.
To be honest, I just asoon they sell it to me with no line on it at all.... Save me some stripping and spooling time cuz I am going to put my line of choice on it.
Stay away from high abrasion lines because that is for trolling not casting. It makes great leader lines because it likes to lay out streaght and has excilent knot tying qualities...
it was nearly 30 years ago I spooled my reel with maxum abraision resistant line. dont get me wrong, it is a quality line, it is just it is not made for spinning reels, it wants to fall off the spool and ends up in a birds nest in two or three cast.
I like the silver thread because it is a smaller diamiter than other lines of the same poundage, and is softer to the touch wich I beleives gives me more fish strikes.
have you ever tried flurocarbon lines? i have it the newest and grestest line out therei use it for tippets to main line. depending on what i am doing. it is not as tuff as say trilean xl or silver threrad seem to have smaller dia then normal mono. also is ligther pound test so i will always go up a line size. at 15 buck is a litle expensive.
another problem with heavy rod i have noticed is if not useing a weighted lure in the right range for the rod ie: to light of lure. the line will not wind on right and will birds nest so he maybe doing it wrong by buying to heavy duty of a rod for too light of a application. just a suggestion the line maybe right for the weight of the rod but using to light of weight at the end for the lure or casting weight when reeled in will cause it to tangle up. go figure.
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there the not keeping your line tight thing that catches all of us now and then, especialy with bobber fishing.
I have looked at the floro carbins, they sure are perty, but it is hard to get me to make the leap from silver thread on my dime. [:p]
I have an ice fishing bud who swears by it, at it and about it on the ice.. but he wont use anything else cuz it is the only line he can see on the ice. [sly] I have watched him fish, so I think most of his problems with the floro carbin is himself.. [laugh] three fiths to the wind if ya know what I mean.. [angelic]
I have seen the high abrasion and cheep line actualy unravel and rats nest on the spool during the cast.
one can diagnost one's own problems if you are attentive enough. first few times it happened to me I was just like every one else, I was just out for a little enjoyment and relaxation only to be confounded with the berdon of my new reel with new line bird nesting every 4-5 cast... I came up with every excuse there was and made up a few of my own as to why it was happening to me all the way to the point of having to much line on my reel. after stripping half of it off I still got the same problem. then it became a matter of principal to me as to what was going on.
so I watched and watched, keeping my line tight on every cast. I made sure I did every thing my dad taught me from years earlier, after about 10 cast staring at the reel insted of where I was casting I saw it happen.. Just like a cartoon animation.... POOOFFF instant birds nest in my spool, as soon as I saw that, all the excuses was over, I pulled out my clippers and knawed all the line off my spool and tried silver thread and have been a hooked guppy ever since.
there are other lines out there equaly as good, I have just found that I get more hookups with smaller diamiter lines. This is especialy so in the winter. I have another bud that fishes with half pound test line. he pulls in more fish than I do, but he looses a lot of jigs in the process as well.