How To Put Braided Line on a Spinning Reel [BEST METHOD!] 

This video is exactly what a new fisherman needs, with super useful tips and tricks. Thank you!

Good video and useful tips. The Pflueger President spinning reel you have comes with a braid ready spool. If you notice there is several vertical dark lines on your spool base. These are made of rubber. It is designed to provide grip for the braided line to hold onto while one is initially starting to wind line on the spool. Not as effective as your method but that was how Pflueger addressed it. 🙂

Thanks for showing how direction the of line and reel direction work. I’ve read it a million times but now I get it.

Took my brand new Battle II 5000 for a spin yesterday for the very first time and I hooked a 20lb yellowtail using a Ugly Stik X2 (medium hard) rod ru-vid.comUgkxM68VkfsQhHaabDce1IwOCXuvumcpbZ_k . This combo was recommended on some website and it did not disappoint me. The reel is smooth, the drag click is pretty cool cause i think it adds to the excitement of fighting the fish, personally the drag is my favorite part. I use braid and 300 yards will fill the entire spool. This combo is my main setup from now on although I have to disclose I am new to fishing.

Just followed your video. First time ever spooling a reel so thank you very much.

Thanks so much this helped so much, this video deserves a like and a subscribe. Keep up the great work and have a nice day.

Thank you fir sharing. Let me give you little advise. Instead of using electrical tape that will take up some spool space, and you will end up with residue from the electric tape. Also is usually to wide fir some of the small crappie reels. Use plumbers pipe tape. It’s thin, has no residue and is narrow and will work great to do the same process. Again, thanks fir sharing.

Great vid! Tight lines everyone

I used gorrila tape and it worked great. Great video man it taught me a lot!

Thank you first time and it worked perfect!

Thanks for the video. As a retired judge I used to tell people in the courtroom all of the time, "There is no shame in ignorance. We are ALL born with two things in common. 1. We are ALL born naked. There's no choice in that. 2. We are ALL born ignorant. That is why there is no shame in ignorance. Now, as we go through life, we learn things... The difference between good and bad, right and wrong, moral and immoral... All important things to learn. We all also learn different things about different subjects as we go through life. There's not a single person alive that knows everything. There's not even one person alive that knows everything there is to know about ONE thing. We are born ignorant and we live our entire lives being ignorant about something... Many things. This is why there is no shame in ignorance. Now, if we learn something, and we choose to continue to do things contrary to the knowledge we have, that is not ignorance. That is called stupidity. There IS shame in stupidity."

Perfect every time. thanks for the video.

my Daiwa has a tie off line holder for the line start of wind location , a nice feature that i used when switching to braided line.

Out of all the vids I watched yours is the first one that broke it down in a way that made sense to me, thanks!

Love the tape idea

this was so great!!!!!!!!! i got it im new to fishing !!!!!

you look at the reel from the back, the bail is spinning counterclockwise, therefore, the spool of line laying down should unwind the line counter clockwise as well (coming off to the left when looking down on it). Electrical tape is smart, I use an old tshirt for tension. well done sir.

Thanks... Works like a charm

You’re the 🐐 man ! Thanks

Thanks man! WIll give this a try! Tired of birdsnests, and wind knots. Took my reel to 2 places to get spooled, windknots both times. This way makes the most sense; looking forward to trying this out.

Thank you, this worked perfect. Good straightforward video.

This is what I needed. Thanks for the help! Easy to watch/understand.

Great Vid- thanks!

Awesome video

Good job 👍

Thank you so much.

good help, thanks!

Really good tip on the electrical tape, never heard that before. And to show how "duh" I can be, the overhand knot so simple. I've always used the standard fishing knot, 5, thru and back over. All was very informative.

Thank you for the helpful tip.

Great tips. Watched your old video and then this one. Thanks!

Thanks for sharing 👍

Well done, thank you.

That electrical tape on finger, nice tip. I actually have a cut in my finger from 0.10mm braided line.

Great video, extremely helpful.

Great job I Learned a lot thank you so much great camerawork🙏🏻

Powerpro no longer has completely circular small spools anymore. You have to only use the pencil trick now. Unless you have a spooler machine. The line kept getting caught on the notch and kept flipping the whole spool, peeling off and dancing around on my floor lol

I'm sick of the cheap mono that came with my reel so I'm going to try this! Thanks for the tip!

Yes thanks this was very helpful 😄 I'm just wondering if anyone can tell me what the next step is after this? Should I remove what's left of the line from the roll and use all of it to work with, or do I trim it, leaving some on the roll it came from and using from where I trimmed? Using a 300M line as I'm sure is expected 😅 thanks if anyone can help x

The president XT 4000 series reel allows braid to be spooled on directly. Still a good method and what I have done on a few reels, but instead of electrical tape I use Teflon tape. But still a good, informative video.

nice video thanks!

Wow simple electrical tape basic but genius gotta couple poles now to try this with. Thanks Alex!

Easy thx man

Thank you

Braid is at least twice as expensive as monofilament. My spinning reel said it would hold 130 yards of 8 pound mono but I had 150 yards of braid which is substantially thinner than mono. I used 10 pound mono backing because I don't want glue or sticky tape on my reel. I'm glad i did because the braid alone would not have filled the reel. I am not a frequent user of spinning reels because I prefer bait casting but the braid casts much better than mono and doesn't have the memory of mono so there's not lots of extra line pulling off the reel to get tangled in the bail or crank.

Anytime line comes off a spinning reel it twists one turn per loop. If it's twisted on the spool it untwists as it comes off with no twists between the spool and end of line. If you put it on the spool without twists it comes off twisted between the spool and end of line. In fact, a 100' cast can put over 200 twists between reel and lure/bait and when you lift your lure/bait out of the water between casts some of the twists come out...several per cast. In short order, the first 100' or so off your reel ends up twisted on your spool anyway. Especially after your first line break. Tight lines!

Great Vid. Only comment is since braid is abrasive you protected finger but not rod. Was rod ok or scratched? Maybe worth putting tape on rod where your going to pinch it too for reassurance. Or use a bit of rag and pinch braid with that between two fingers or finger and rod. Will use method for putting braid on my reel later in week.

The president series of reels has 4 rubber bumpers (those black raised parts on the spool) to catch braided line, the tape is superfluous in this example.

I just purchased a 100 meter braided line 0.45 . But can't able to spool full line, what to do?

Really helpful Video, just followed it to put braid on my new reel, only thing I did before hand was soak the new line in a bucket of water for 30 mins ( the guy at tackle shop advised this), I did however try your tip of lifting the bail arm to see if the line would jump off and it remained perfectly tight to the reel, I’ve yet to try it but Fingers crossed. cheers!

Yo this was dope! 👏 definitely gonna have to try braided line! Great video 👍

So, do you have a reason for not just tying on to the BRAID-READY spool? Do you know something that we haven't learned yet? I just got that President and was about to put some .10 on there.

I have the same reel, its got grips already, its braid ready lol I know my abu needs electrical tape though.

do you use a leader with the Braid?

Great video. Thanks. Have you got any ideas/uses for the remaining 20 metres of fireline I’m left over with?

Try making a uni know with a big loop. Then put the loop over the spool and wrap it around a few times. Its incredible

Neat, in the first vid you spool a Cardinal and in this vid a President and i have both lol. 👍

The method of choice, thanks again

Have seen some people soak the braid before putting it on...... Good idea ???

Nice reel is it a pflueger reel

What do you guys think about using that thin plumbing tape? Some people raised concern about the adhesive on electrical tape possibly causing a problem.

Will painters tape work?

Cool vid. Gonna try the tape thing on reel. Though the problem I seem to have after spooling is taking the end of the line and feeding it through eye guides of rod. The braid seems to loosen and slip off of spool. Any tips to keep tight ?

Hi so my big pit reels will be fine for braid im in the uk getting some 60lb braid for pikeing and having mono backing so will the braid not slip no

The new Pflueger President series are braid ready from the factory It looks like yours is as well. So, no tape necessary...just more line.

What if my reel comes braid ready...do you still recommend electrical tape?

Can this method be done with 50lb braid?

Why don't u knot it around that tab on side of spool? I always do that

Nice

Thx

I have the same combo

So I have braid on a reel in pretty good condition but it’s now it’s about 1/4” instead of 1/8” from the edge. Should I consider replacing it?

can you use other type of tape

Sorry for asking..what is electrical tape actually tbh??can i use just a ordinary tape?

What size Reel is that?

I was told once that you keep the Spool With the label side up and you'll never have a problem with the twisting I've done it like this for years and it works really well for me. Just an fyi from a 70 year old dummy.

I just bought a new reel and braided line, shouldn't I put the reel on the rod before spooling the line? (After taping and tying)

The line coming off the spool came off counterclockwise and the wire going on your reel was clockwise. Didn’t you say you want both lines going clockwise or did I not understand this correctly?

Was braid or mono first

You already had the spool off, you should have tied it to the spool before putting it back on.

The black vertical rubber bars on the spool means the spool is braid ready. Your tip is good for older reels without braid ready spools but not for reels that have the braid ready grips. Adding tape to these reels is just redundant and takes up precious real estate on the reel.

What about boxing tape or some Teflon if you don’t have any electrical tape?

Can I put a braided line on a Shakespeare contender rod/open face spinner combo?

No need for electrical tape. Pfluger has 4 rubber strips on spool for the line to grip to.

That Pflueger spool is "braid ready" and has three rubber inserts built into it to grip the braid... therefore you don't need any backing material... just tie the braid directly to the spool and go.

Can i use the electrical tape method for every size reel or just for small reels that don’t have space for mono?

Thanks for sharing my friend, aren’t you afraid that the glue of the inside of masking tape after some period will mess the braided line, specially during hot days? It happened to me many times when I wrapped different things with masking tape, after couple summers to stack everything over it with glue impossible to remove. Never tried it on a spool with braided line though.

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Update the update ?

Do you have to have electrical tape??

1:40 Brooo you missed the perfect opportunity to say "Reel-estate".

I’m my spool comes with a river grip in the middle of the spool do I need tape or can I go ahead and do it?

About the tape, if the reel says that it has a bread ready spool does that mean I won’t need the tape?

Can you do a video and show getting line on line roller the correct way.

What If I don’t have electrical tape? Will that hurt anything or?

I put a 15 lb braid on a $20 Shakespeare rod and get no slips. I put 2 regular knots and then a slipknot

When i open the reel it doesnt let me spin it, any tips?

My line wont stay in the bail that grips the line it goes go the other side how can i fix this

Will this effect my reel at all

So when I start to reel in nothing happens the line doesn’t spool …

Braid doesn't have memory or twist - it doesn't matter how you spool it as long as you do it under tension. The radial direction of transfer only maters with mono.