5 Spinning Reel Mistakes to AVOID (AND How to Fix Them)

first line lure broke off this one already has a wind knot hi welcome to deebo's amateur fishing i can't even cast without messing up what's happening fusion friends welcome to another episode today we're discussing something that i've received a lot of questions about and that's more tips and tricks for spinning reels you all know i am a huge fan of using a baitcaster but i never ever leave home without at least one spinning combo especially for my finesse stuff so today i put together five spinning reel mistakes to avoid when you go out fishing i know a lot of people picked up fishing this year it's a great way to get out enjoy the outdoors socially distance and for me just absolutely clear my head of everything going on now i started out with the spinning rail a long time ago when i got started in fishing just like a lot of you all probably are right now probably one of the first combos you picked up or looked at was a spinning combo so let's get into it the first thing that i have to say and this isn't one of the five tips but i want to just broke a tip number one do not hold your spinning combo like this you don't want to hold your spinning combo with the spinning reel up top reeling backwards towards you it's not very often that i tell someone you know when they're fishing you're doing something wrong or you're doing it the wrong way that's not right this is one of those exceptions a spinning combo is not made to be fished with the spinning reel up you're gonna end up damaging your line guides these guys right here these are mint you see how long that is these are meant to load and take stress this way on the bottom of the rod and to bend that rod that's the way a spinning rail is made to flex and work okay the first actual tip i've got for you is filling your spool you don't want to overfill it and put too much on but on the other side you also don't want to put too little amount of line on you're going to run into issues so number one filling it too full as you can see here on my spool there's a little ledge down here on the bottom and that kind of lines up with this little edge right up top here it's kind of hard to see but there's a little lip that goes over this when i'm filling up my spinning combo i want to stay within about an eighth of an inch of that lip to ensure i'm not filling it too full if i get that line all the way out to the edge here where it's all the way past this black where you can see and going up like it's going to run up onto the you've got too much on there what's going to happen is when you go to cast a few times it's going to end up pulling a lot off because it's not seated down inside here within the spool where it's supposed to be so you're going to get a bunch of line coming off you're going to get line knots a whole tangles mess it can be an absolute horrible day and i've done that before i remember when i was first starting out with braid i wanted to use the whole spool right you don't want to waste any of it so i'm like almost at the end of it i'm like i'm just going to keep going when you get that all the way full you don't have any more lip here you don't have any more room right here you see this black lip on the bottom if i were to put line all on all this and fill up all that black down there it's all just going to come off in a big ball that's what happens now on the other side of that you don't want to put too little of line on here now if i do this where there's like a fingers width like you know a half inch and that lines all the way in toward the middle you're going to lose a lot of casting distance because what's going to happen is as that lines coming off the fuller you have it the farther of cast you'll get as that line starts to get down and it starts to eat inside there it's going to bang up against the top of this it's going to spin off more it has to do more work and you're just not going to get as good of a cast so if you put on too much it can be issues you're going to have line coming off and tangling if you don't put on enough it's going to be hard to cast a long distance especially if you want to like pitch and flip a lot of times i'll have a ned rig or a little finesse jig and throw it out there and that'll just come off real easy if you've got that right amount on if you don't have enough on there you're gonna throw it out it's gonna bang around and it's just not gonna be easy to do so fill your spool correctly i've got a whole other video on this i'll link that at the end but um getting this within the right spot is key okay tip number two for beginners is don't neglect braid the more i've got into spinning and fishing a spinning combo really braid is my number one thing that i use you do have to learn to tie a leader you know fluorocarbon or monofilament unless you're fishing really dirty but with a little practice that's not a problem at all now the benefits of braid why do i stress that why should you not neglect braid well a lot of new people i know when they start out they get a nice combo like this they go out and they'll look for a cheap line right i don't know what i'm doing i'm going to get a cheap line the problem is a lot of those cheap lines can kind of be stiff or maybe you've heard the pros talk about fluorocarbon so you put you know 12 pound fluorocarbon on here thinking it's going to be great the problem with some monos and most all fluorocarbon is they're tough they've got memory and when you go to cast they're going to have that memory and want to jump off the spool so the things that you get with braid is you don't have any memory like you can see here braid on your line is always going to be straight so this is straight and dropping down i know it's not focusing the greatest but this has been on here for a long time this has been on all year notice how it's limp there's no sort of memory in it whatsoever that's the number one advantage of spinning combos with braid you don't have any memory you don't have to worry about you know whole globs of it coming off unless you've filled it too full but generally it's nice and you know smooth like this it's going to be a real small diameter as well so a 10 pound or 15 pound some braids even are going to equal like a four pound monofilament diameter so a 15 pound braid could be the exact same size same diameter as a four pound model that's crazy the smaller diameter line is going to come off you reel easier you're going to be able to cast it a whole lot farther than if you're using like a thick 12-pound fluorocarbon on here you just get more distance it's way easier and more forgiving for a beginner the other thing i've noticed is it doesn't want to twist as easily fluorocarbon it's going to have that memory and it's going to be trained to your reel right as soon as you get it all on the spool it's going to be trained to the size of the spool and it's going to want to keep going on that way bray doesn't care it has no memory so if i'm using a lure that can kind of tend to twist or like a cinco or something like that man the the twisting and the the kinks and stuff that you get in your line you'll oftentimes see it like come back all like this twist it up like this and hang it around that's when you get a lure that's going to cause line twists so braid doesn't twist up as easy it's more forgiving it's a lot more limp it's just a lot easier for a beginner to get used to now if you get a knot in it it can be a heck of a thing to get out and sometimes you might have to cut it but in my opinion if you start with a real soft mono or braid you'll really like it okay tip number three i can't stress enough close the bail manually what do i mean well you take your line you go like this you're holding it with your finger you cast it out and to close the bale you're just taking your hand right here on the the crank and the handle and closing it that way i know a lot of new people start out that way i certainly did when i was first starting now if you're using a lure that's got some weight to it a cast and retrieve lure it's not going to be as big of an issue allure with weight you're casting it out almost as soon as it's hitting the water you're clicking that over and reeling it's going to take up that slack without much of an issue the problem you're going to get into is when you fish lures that you move with the rod so for example like a ned rig a drop shot a finesse jig a small shaky head a lot of things that i'm picking up the spinning combo to use i'm working with the rod using the rod to work the lure and not the real so let's say i had like a small spinner bait quarter ounce spinner bait and i was fishing on this not an issue right you cast it out you turn it over with the handle no problem let's say i have a ned rig i throw a ned rig out i'm letting it sink i've got a bunch of extra slack line and i just turn that crank over right i turn it over and i've got a whole bunch of loose line here what you'll end up seeing is it'll look something like this have you ever seen that on your spinning reel see that line how it's all loose and starting to get around the bottom of the bale well if it gets really bad and you've got a big loop or a lot of loose line it'll get up under that bale i'm sorry under your spool if you've got a ton of slack you can get caught up on under there you've got to take your spool off remove it fix it and get caught in the gear in there otherwise with all this loose line something's gonna happen and usually what's gonna happen with all that loose line kind of hanging out down here is on that next cast you go out and throw it out and it's gonna pull a whole bunch of this off in that one spot and ball and not up that's what people call a wind knot right now when not you'll also get those again that balling and bunching up a line if you fill your spool too full okay or anytime you're casting out slack lines so if i were to cast this out uh most of the time i guarantee i'm gonna have some issues coming back so the big thing with closing the bale manually and what i mean is notice in this clip how i cast it out look at my left hand my left hand is going down flipping that bail over with my hand and then i'm pulling out that slack line that's what i want to urge beginners to do is you take back you throw your line out i'm well i'm actually going to get into that in a second but i'm putting my hand here i'm going to take my free hand over flip that bail with my hand and i pull out any sort of slack that's what i get into and that really helps save a ton of headaches really stubbed he had to get his toy that saves a ton of headaches when you get out on the water because i can't tell you how frustrated i've been um you know starting out cast it out there's a big knot global line you're like what the heck closing that bale manually that's actually going to take us into the next tip now this kind of ties into tip three i've already kind of talked about it in tip three but i can't stress enough reeling up that slack line if there's wind uh anytime you've got slack after you know throwing a bait and you're letting it drop down anytime you've got that slack line where it's just kind of hanging you don't ever want to reel that in so one thing you can do is you can hand our hand take your finger on the line like this while you're reeling in that gives tension on it you can also like i do almost every time i notice going back and watching video every time i cast out and close the bail with my hand you'll always see me take this line right here in front of the reel and pull it out to make sure everything's nice and tight and then i'll usually start working with my rod with my tip up while the lines tight and i'm gonna reel the slack down do not reel up slack loose line that's going to put loops in it just as if you weren't closing the bail with your hand it's going to put those loose loops in and that's when you get wind nuts tip number four is feathering the line now that's one of my biggest uh pros to using a baitcaster is when i take this baitcaster and cast it out i've got to put my thumb here so my thumb's always touching this line as it's getting out there closer to water i can feather the spool with my thumb slow that spool down stop that inertia and kind of let that lure come in gently right that's my biggest thing with a baitcaster is i'm a lot more accurate with it you have more control over the spool in the line one thing i've learned to do with the spinning reel is kind of the same thing feathering the line now there's different ways to do this i know some guys will use their finger so as this line's coming off it's going to bang into my finger here right so they'll keep a finger down and let it hit that that's not how i do it but i've heard of guys doing it that way i always use my free hand to feather my spool so i go here i cast it out and as this line's coming off remember it's coming off this way okay it's coming off around like this i'm just gonna leave my finger down here and let it hit it's just going to cause a little bit of friction on it but with practice you'll be able to feather this as it's coming off just putting my hand here as this line is coming off i can't really show you i'll show you a clip so i know a lot of people will will cast out and they're holding this and looking to time it and it's going to cause the lure to bounce back right when you're feathering the spool you can get it right to about where you want it and just barely lay your hand on it and allow that lure to come in now i'm still even after feathering a spinning reel i'm still not as accurate with this as i am with this that's a whole different video though but feathering the spool with your hand is something you want to learn it'll help you out a ton you're going to get a lot more accuracy you're going to be able to get into spots like if you're pitching and flipping with the spinning reel a lot quieter sometimes that subtle presentation with the bait makes all the difference if you go in a spot where fish are a little spooky and you throw it in there and it splashes with the big splash those fish are gone you can land it in there nice and soft feathering the spool helps okay the last tip tip number five for beginners is make sure you set your drag now this is going to be kind of a fight and feel type thing i know when i started out at first i would have my drag cranked up so on a spinning reel your drag is going to be right here lefty loosey righty tighty so if i'm turning it this way i'm going to loosen it if i'm turning it clockwise i'm going to tighten it lefty loosey ready tighty so when i started out i would have that crank down a lot and what happens is if you're using real small diameter line let's say i'm using four pound monofilament if you have this cranked all the way down you're fighting a big fish you're gonna end up breaking line so you kind of have to get into that comfort zone where you feel i've got enough power to set the hook okay you might let a little drag out that's what i want when i set the hook i want just a little bit to come out okay but when i'm fighting that fish i don't want to go and of course on the other side of things i don't want to have it set so tight that there's no give the whole point of drag is it's allowing that fish to take some line if you're using treble hook lures or smaller lures it's going to allow that fish not to throw right because he's pulling out drag instead of putting slack in the line when they head shake any sort of slack line is when they can throw that lure so for smaller hooks if i've got this set all the way tight and they can't pull out any drag right they're pulling and this isn't making any sound they can't pull out any drag good chance you're gonna bend a small hook setting your drag appropriately and i like to like i said have it so if i've got something where i'm setting a hook hard like a shaky head or something you hear just a little bit come out okay then i can adjust it on the fly if he's really pulling i can loosen this up and let him take some of that drag and fight wear that fish out until he starts to get tired and bring him in that's the whole point in fighting a fish with drag okay let it play out some of that you know piss and vinegar is what we call it until they're all tired and then you can get them in a lot easier so there's a number of things with the drag like i said a lot of it's just going to take a little bit of time but but you don't want to have it set so tight that it's going to throw hooks or your bending hooks your braking line if you're doing that you know you've got it set too tight so that's going to do it for the five spinning real mistakes if you avoid those i guarantee it's going to help you out in the long run number one not filling that spool too much or not putting enough line on number two don't neglect braid i know it does cost a little bit more but as you get more comfortable with it braid has so many more benefits casting distance it's got a smaller diameter it's really nice number three close that bale manually try to get out of the habit of casting and just using this to click it over it's abrupt it can pop line when you close that bill manual you've got full control number 3.5 don't reel in slackline it's bad number four feather the line on the spool get used to it it helps a ton you get a lot more control i know a lot of people with the spinning reel they cast it out wherever it's going it's going and they're closing it right you can feather the spool just like you do on one of these guys just take some practice and number five make sure you get that drag set up like i said it's going to take some time and learning but utilizing that drag just don't leave it at one setting for every lure every hook don't be afraid to change that up even while you're fighting a fish changing it up all right that's going to do it for me tonight tonight subscribe fusion friend is daniel crocker daniel thanks for watching and thanks everybody else who continues to watch and support it means a bunch i'm creeping up on 100 000 subscribers and i never dreamed that would even be possible so it's because of all of you but let me know let me know if this vid helps i've got more planned like this some more tips and trick type things couple unboxings some more reviews i've got a bunch of stuff so i always love hearing your input that's enough i gotta go edit so thank you all for watching oh yeah remember embrace the dink until next time so you

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Length: 16min 10sec (970 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 14 2020