Wind your own line?

[Wish-I-Were-Fishn]

Just curious, do you wind your own line on your spinning reels, or do you have the store do it on a line winder?

[Juneau4]

Do it myself - easy to do.

[CrowRiverRat83]

Do it myself for sure.

[traveler]

Always done it myself...when I first heard of stores doing this, I had to laugh:) That was many years ago of course, I understand now it's fairly normal, but i still can't quite imagine doing it.

[pulsar_nx]

I think that it is mostly for people who don't know the correct technique to putting line on a spool without getting the line all twisted up.

[Northlander]

I do almost all of mine except at times I will bring my own line in and have the shop do my big linecounter reals.

[mattpaumen]

I do my own most of the time as well. When I buy a new reel, the store I buy it from does it for me.

[LoonASea]

I buy in bulk and do both my spinning and level wind trolling reels ,,Rapalas line spooler works great and I really like the line stripper

[caseymcq]

... When I buy a new reel, the store I buy it from does it for me.

Same for me, if they offer I take them up on it. While it isn't a big chunk of change I figure it saves me a few nickels if they spool it up for free.

It may sound a little cliché, but it is kind of therapeutic for me. Same as rigging decoys. I actually enjoy doing it and for some reason I find it relaxing.

[paceman]

I have never had the store do it. I always do my own. really nice having partial spools lying around for rigging snells...

[Ufatz]

Messin' around with your "stuff" is one of the pleasures of being an ourdoorsman; repainting decoys, gun cleaning, patching waders, cleaning and arranging tackle boxes and fly books, de-barbing hooks tying leaders and SPOOLING your own line are part of the enjoyment. Spooling line is not excactly a complicated process!! Do it yourself and you know it is done right.

[dan z]

I usually do it myself so I know its done right. Its all part of the do it yourself things that make you a more of a outdoorsman. I calibrated some line counters this spring and was excited I got them pretty close to the actual count back. Just as stated above i like rigging anything by myself its all part of it.

[Great Outdoors]

Many people that spool their own line on spinning reels put it on backwards (figure 8 the line) which causes the line to come off the spool like a slinky.

Bait casters are easy to do correctly as the line must come off the top side of the spool as it goes on the top of the reel being spooled.

Some shops do not know that there is a correct way to do it on a spinning reel either.

[mainbutter]

It's just another way I can support a local bait shop. One or two out of every five times I spool up, I let a bait shop do it.

[Big Dave2]

Just curious, do you wind your own line on your spinning reels?

There's another way to do it?

[leechlake]

gotta do it yourself.

1. grab beer

2. strip old line

3. attempt to tie knot on spool without cheaters

4. find assistant and tell them to grab a pencil

5. start winding, coaching the assistant to put proper tension on spool, maybe scold them from time to time.

6. don't over fill reel like store usually does

7. have left overs for snells

It's as big of a tradition as Thanksgiving. Sometimes I get it on wrong so I just let the line out in the boat while I move about 10 miles an hour and real it back in. Sometimes I get it on the wrong side of the bail and have to start over. It's part of the whole outdoor experience.