soaking line

[kendo]

when soaking a new spool of line prior to loading onto reel just how long does one soak it for? thanks

[DavyR]

As noone's answered yet, Kendo, would it help if I say I never bother and it doesn't seem to make any difference (I use Maxima most of the time)?

[edd]

ive never even heard of soaking line before loading it

[BREAMAGAIN]

What year are you living in ?

[Newt]

kendo - based on http://www.anglersnet.co.uk/authors/jim09.htm we have a mono expert posting on here and he can probably give you details. I don't use mono these days and have forgotten your answer if I ever knew it although an hour somehow seems appropriate.

 

BREAMAGAIN - since mono, even a 2005 version, absorbs a good deal of water I can see that originally spooling it when wet might well make a difference since that's the way that you will spool part of it every time you wind in a cast. I just don't know exactly what that difference might be. Do you?

[A Worm OOE]

The only time I ever soak line is if I need one that sinks like a brick and then its maxima overnight in the washing up luiquid solution.

I do however use a bucket of water when spooling up but not as atreatment for the line.

[awaaar]

Kendo, just chuck the spool in a bucket before loading it onto the reel, works for me mate

 

tight lines - andy

[kendo]

basically i have the need to change my reel line and have chosen drennon double strength in the 4lb cat Ive read in the past that soaking your line in water with a tiny amount of washing up liquid would ensure that it sank better.

[DavyR]

Hope you have better luck than me with that line - I must be too used to stretchy mono, as it kept snapping on me. Didn't think I was particularly heavy-handed with it, either...

[kendo]

DavyR:

Hope you have better luck than me with that line - I must be too used to stretchy mono, as it kept snapping on me. Didn't think I was particularly heavy-handed with it, either...

hi davyR i did use it for a couple of seasons about 6 years ago and had no probs with it snapping,it could have been that you had a bad spool.