Viking Lars | Saturday, 13 April 2024
On the subject of…
Spooling lines - especially backing. Which takes approximately forever. There’s a lot of it and a few weeks ago I actually pulled myself together and took the backing of all my salmon reels. The point was to once and for all know how much there is on each reel. All good and done - after over 1 kilometre of backing.
My wife had to endure some, because one thing that’s important about backing is that it needs to be spooled on under a little pressure. Not much, but sufficient so it doesn’t cut into underlying layers, so to speak. That will happen with casually spooled backing, especially on big fish, of course.
I got a new reel a few weeks ago (bought used, to be precise) so I needed to spool more backing. Again!
I of course bought some braided line, made for catfish, I think. It’s thin, stronger than any line or leaders I’ll ever put on, so there also room for a lot of it.
And it’s camo - just so you know. Camo! Camo is good.
When my wife is not home and my kids refuse to help, which they always seem to do, I have other ways to maintain tension.
Put a towel on the floor, mom’s best home knitted socks on and a pencil through the spool. Knot on the backing. Put the reel on your best rod (that’s important) and hold the pencil between your feet. Push the spool down on the towel, just enough to add enough pressure that it’s not uncomfortable on your index finger and spool on, moving your finger from side to side, guiding the backing on evenly across the spool.
Have a great weekend!
Lars