This is very informative! Thank you Victor, I appreciate it! I had trouble in the past when I was bass fishing with spinning reels, wondering why my lines were twisting and acting strange! Now I know why!
Please use colored line so we can see the line twist. Also I tie the end to my mail box and walk away till all of the line is off the spool then reel it in like you showed. Hope this helps. Thank you.
I just tried it with my leader straightener (use it for fly fishing) to pinch the line on my ice fishing set up. Worked good, removed some bad twist. Thanks for the tip. Now I will have no excuses this weekend :).
This is the way I get rid of line twist and also how I line my reels. I put new line through all my guides, throw it across the room far far away, then with two fingers reel in the line straight onto the reel in a straight path. With coils and light line, if you have a good cast out and can manage your fingers, you can actually remove the coils as you retrieve your heavy lure by a stretch effect. - truly a balancing act. On a boat, even easier method. Cut the lure out and drop the line in the water and troll. The water will pull the line out and straighten it, once far out enough, reel back in. This works better with heavy filament and braid.
Great tips. I use the in boat method. I do it a little different. In boat I let line out and drive boat a hundred yards or so dragging bare line in the water. After short run at say 5 miles and hour I slowly reel line in while still moving and you can feel water friction holding line. Water is removing twist all by itself. There is the perfect amount of resistance to get line on reel just tight enough. No fingers. This works perfectly. I usually do this when moving to a new spot to fish. Always nice to start new spots with twist free line.
tears ago i had a tool with rubber and leather that you would run your line through to remove the line twist i think it was for straightening fly line leaders worked great.
Hey , I have a ultralight Ugly in the closet that's a pretty good rod. 😅 They don't make them anymore. It's sort of a better built Shakespeare Micro Series. I dug it out for some bluegill fishing last weekend. It was great with my little Okuma.
@@ifishcatfish 100% fishing is about having fun I got into ultra light fishing watching your channel! I even fish the surf w ultra light gear. Thanks for the great content
Did the video where you spool line on the reel get removed? I can't find it no matter what I search for. I know there are a million videos of other doing it on RU-vid, and I've seen them, but you always add new perspective so I would love to see the video. Your channel is fantastic by the way.
I can't stand most educational content on RU-vid but you're a gem. Thank you for taking the time to find and link me the video, it was as great as I knew it would be.
I tie the line to a snap swivel, attach the snap to something and walk all the line out and then reel it back on. Do you think this will be sufficient compared to your method?
No, you are doing absolutely nothing that way. The twist needs to be undone. If your swivel is attached, not a single coil of twist will be removed. The line needs to be free, then hold fingers tight, and the line will keep spinning in front of your fingers, leaving twist out.
@@ifishcatfish Thank you, I thought the swivel would spin and undue the twist. I'll do it the way you suggest now. I love your channel and was wondering what you're opinion on the kastking kestrel 1000 spinning reel is?
@@fantasticleese light but not smooth. Daiwa legalis and shimano sahara are cheaper and much smoother. But heavier. Depends whats important for you, weight or feel
I believe people not manually closing their bail causes a lot of line twist. That and people reeling in slack line. I'll definitely use your method if I have a lot of line twist though.
No, that cannot twist the line. It can create a knot, which is even worse, but cannot twist the line. Twist comes from inappropriate installation or from reeling while the drag is slipping
“3rd time posting this video and this time I’m going to make it shorter for you guys so I don’t waste your time” ….proceeds to create 11:38 video. 😂 Like my grandma always said, quit telling me about all the details of the delivery and just show me the baby.
I've seen this in a couple websites but I can't believe it will work.. the line will be on top.. water will not have good grip. I honestly don't think that works at all. But haven't tried it either.. This in the video is guaranteed to have enough grip and takes 1 min.
@@ifishcatfish I've been doing it since the 1980s and I used to be a bass guide. I know it works. I did it all the time on spinning reels before I moved to braid for my finesse stuff. Believe me the water grabs the line. It'll put a bend in a stiff rod. You don't want to be running 70MPH.
Its not so simple. The water can grab the line and still not untwist. I explained how if you have lure the line will not untwist the same way it does on the grass without lure. There is absolutely no need for this choir that may or may not untwist the line. Twist your line on purpose, then cast it and hold it with your fingers. You will see why this method is so much more effective
@@ifishcatfish I’ve done it hundreds if not thousands of times. It absolutely works. I used to fish for a living everyday. It’s always worked. Telling me it doesn’t and you’ve never done it? It will untwist it running from one spot to your next. Every bass pro will tell you it works. I do it on my baitcasters also to get the memory out of my copoly.
Actually i said 'i can't believe it will work'. It doesn't mean I know it doesn't work. It means I don't believe. I also said that it doesnt make sense to go through such a choir, when u can just cast and grab the line and reel it in perfectly straight. I don't see what the problem is - looks like common sense to me.
I agree but i recorded it 3 times and its just hard to see. I tried in front of dark wood and it was worse. I am trying to move to a bigger house and will have a dedicated recording studio where i will make sure i have better conditions
My experience is that ordinary mono is less prone to line twist & easier to de-twist. Fluorocarbon is in my opinion not suited to fixed spool reels in anything much about 10lb B.S. Also when pinching the line tight to wind back on the spool you should use frequently lubricate your fingers with water otherwise the heat generated may weaken the line. Regards Stephen
well line doesn't twist itself. User twists it by spooling it wrong or using drag wrong. But mono will just stay twisted when you twist it, while fluorocarbon will jump back to untwist. But what you are seeing is not the twisting, but UNtwisting. You are seeing the symptoms of something that already happened, that is user's fault
@@ifishcatfish Thankyou for your reply. Shame you never commented on the lubrication part. I would be curious to know what is the thickest fluorocarbon you have used on a fixed spool reel? And yes, when I started to get problems with fishing with Fluorocarbon (14lb+) I consulted videos like yours to make sure I was spooling it correctly & amended how I did so I still had problems but far less so with thinner Fluorocarbon (12lb Fluor was better but 10lb or less ok) . Just don't get the same issues with Mono of the same thickness or Braid.
@@Stephenpikeman lubrication is bs marketing gimmick. If daiwa doesnt sell such a product it means it doesnt do anything. And u twist all lines the same. Its just that some lines REcoil from twist more than others. U need to think where are u adding the twist if u want to get rid of the problem. Not what line to use. Dont treat the symptom. Find the cause.
@@ifishcatfish Hello again, I don't know what your experiences are when it comes to thin polymers being subjected to heat. which is what happens when winding line through your fingers whilst maintaining tension without continually wetting your fingers. I on the other hand have an honours degree in Chemistry & experience of analysing & testing polymers. Not thin stuff like fishing line but polymers non the less. Although any affect to the line through frictional heating whilst spooling is unlikely to have little effect when fishing, since in my experience anglers tend not to tighten their drags much beyond 50% of the stated breaking strain. It may well mean the difference between a snagged lure being retrieved or not. But that really only applies to the heavier breaking strains. Contrary to popular belief, Fluorocarbon does degrade with age weather kept in the dark or not. Certainly line being subjected to heat, even the frictional heat of spooling, does accelerate the aging process. This is the last I will say on the subject. Thanks for your tips & advice. Regards Stephen
This is more theoretical than practical. I challenge u to detect a difference in temperature in the line before your fingers and after your fingers. Either way these lubrication products are not advertised to use when u run your line between your fingers, but all the time. I personally think they should be illegal unless made of some organic oils that don't harm the fish. But they are all made of petrol derivatives
@@ifishcatfish I DID THIS TONIGHT Victor, I WENT TO OUR SOCCER FIELD. I TIED LINE TO FENCE, and WALK 150 YARDS and I PULLED LINE VERY TIGHT. Then I LEFT ROD ON GROUND , then I WENT BACK TO FENCE and CUT LINE. THEN I WENT BACK TO MY ROD ON GROUND and STARTED REELING IN LINE WHILE PINCHING the LINE. NO MORE MEMORY or TANGLED LINE. I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG THIS WILL LAST.
