...I didn't come up with the idea! 
I don't understand what you mean when you said, "hold onto the bolt snap." Are you holding the spool sideways (like the letter "I") and letting the line come off the side of the spool with the bolt snap clipped through one of the holes on the underside?
If you really want to see something shoot a bag from about 60 feet! At 20 feet or so you barely get to see the spool in mid-water spinning by itself before the bag hits the surface.
There's also an important lesson here. In July I was on a five day California Channel Islands live aboard. I must have sat on the spool while gearing up (I keep it on my crotch strap's rear D ring) and dislodged it, because the spool came off on my giant stride.
I looked down to see my spool very slowly dropping to the bottom with the line still attached to my double ender, and the double enter was still attached to my D ring.
The urge to grab the line and haul the spool back up to me was incredible, though I managed to resist it because I knew all I'd do is cause the spool to spin in place and end up with a huge amount of line floating around me!
All I ended up doing is following the line down to the spool, unclipped the line from my double-ender and then wound it back onto the spool. Even though I was in some kelp, the line, which described a large arc half way back to the surface, just slipped through the kelp and easily wound back onto the reel.
Once you see a spool spin in mid-water, youll know to never haul up on the line to recover one!
Roak
I don't understand what you mean when you said, "hold onto the bolt snap." Are you holding the spool sideways (like the letter "I") and letting the line come off the side of the spool with the bolt snap clipped through one of the holes on the underside?
If you really want to see something shoot a bag from about 60 feet! At 20 feet or so you barely get to see the spool in mid-water spinning by itself before the bag hits the surface.
There's also an important lesson here. In July I was on a five day California Channel Islands live aboard. I must have sat on the spool while gearing up (I keep it on my crotch strap's rear D ring) and dislodged it, because the spool came off on my giant stride.
I looked down to see my spool very slowly dropping to the bottom with the line still attached to my double ender, and the double enter was still attached to my D ring.
The urge to grab the line and haul the spool back up to me was incredible, though I managed to resist it because I knew all I'd do is cause the spool to spin in place and end up with a huge amount of line floating around me!
All I ended up doing is following the line down to the spool, unclipped the line from my double-ender and then wound it back onto the spool. Even though I was in some kelp, the line, which described a large arc half way back to the surface, just slipped through the kelp and easily wound back onto the reel.
Once you see a spool spin in mid-water, youll know to never haul up on the line to recover one!
Roak
