tmassey
Contributor
Hello!
I'm trying to learn how to use a finger spool. In many searches, I have come across lots of posts (and YouTube videos) that show how to set up a finger spool and how to deploy a finger spool, but they all stop at the same point: once the line is deployed! My question is: how do you reel in a finger spool? (After all, deploying the silly thing is only *half* of the process! )
I have near-zero experience with a finger spool, and little enough experience with lines of any kind. This year I have been taking opportunities to learn: using a flag float with a reel, for example. During a recent visit to a quarry I tried using a finger spool. First, I clipped the line off to the corner of a dive platform, ran out line and reeled it back in. Deploying it seemed OK, but the reeling it in was very tricky.
I have read that you do not twirl the line around the spool: that twists the line and it will tangle when you deploy it in the future. So, I had the reel in two hands in front of me and used my two hands alternately to rotate the spool and wind the line up. This seemed to work, but it went *very* slowly...
Later, I also tried deploying an SMB. Again, deploying it went well, but reeling it in was very slow.
From reading many posts, it seems that there are at least a few ways of reeling in a reel. Some people mention they like cold-water reels that have larger holes in them for their finger. Is that for deployment only, or for reeling it in, too? Other people mention using the double-ender to reel in the spool, but without describing *how!* (Also, it seems that the double-ender stays with the spool even when you're using the line? If so, how do I clip the line to something?)
Thank you very much for any help you can give me!
I'm trying to learn how to use a finger spool. In many searches, I have come across lots of posts (and YouTube videos) that show how to set up a finger spool and how to deploy a finger spool, but they all stop at the same point: once the line is deployed! My question is: how do you reel in a finger spool? (After all, deploying the silly thing is only *half* of the process! )
I have near-zero experience with a finger spool, and little enough experience with lines of any kind. This year I have been taking opportunities to learn: using a flag float with a reel, for example. During a recent visit to a quarry I tried using a finger spool. First, I clipped the line off to the corner of a dive platform, ran out line and reeled it back in. Deploying it seemed OK, but the reeling it in was very tricky.
I have read that you do not twirl the line around the spool: that twists the line and it will tangle when you deploy it in the future. So, I had the reel in two hands in front of me and used my two hands alternately to rotate the spool and wind the line up. This seemed to work, but it went *very* slowly...
Later, I also tried deploying an SMB. Again, deploying it went well, but reeling it in was very slow.
From reading many posts, it seems that there are at least a few ways of reeling in a reel. Some people mention they like cold-water reels that have larger holes in them for their finger. Is that for deployment only, or for reeling it in, too? Other people mention using the double-ender to reel in the spool, but without describing *how!* (Also, it seems that the double-ender stays with the spool even when you're using the line? If so, how do I clip the line to something?)
Thank you very much for any help you can give me!