Preventing Line Twist in Finger Spools

[Kevrumbo]

This useful tip was originally recommended by AG: Use what the Anglers splice/tie in on their Fishing Line --A Ball Bearing Swivel . . .

 

[JimC]

Or you can just flip the spool over every 10 wraps or so.

 

[DIR-Atlanta]

Or you can just flip the spool over every 10 wraps or so.

That's what I do - seems to work pretty well.

 

[GreenDiverDown]

This useful tip was originally recommended by AG: Use what the Anglers splice/tie in on their Fishing Line --A Ball Bearing Swivel . . .

This is DIR? Holy Smokes!

 

[Randy43068]

This is DIR? Holy Smokes!

you have a point.

 

[GreenDiverDown]

you have a point.

DIR or not... it scares the heck out of me! Guess I've been a fisherman too long but there's no way that I would trust a barrel swivel at the end of my jump spool. Maybe in OW on a finger spool for use with a SMB... but not in a cave. No way.

 

[Kevrumbo]

The only thing I care about is not having the spool line's bowline loop twisted --so looping into, onto (or out of) your SMB, Mainline, Lost Line or Buddy Drill etc. is an easy, quick & tangle free exercise. You splice/tie-in the swivel just after the bowline knot. . .

You carefully wind/dress-up the spool line later out-of-the water, using Parking Meter Poles as a temporary holding loom (The Monterey Technique: trips up all the BOW students as they head down to San Carlos Beach off the Coast Guard Pier. . . )

 

[limeyx]

This is DIR? Holy Smokes!

My GUE cave1 instructor had a spool with a swivel of some kind for this very issue (not sure what kind the swivel was but if i had to guess it was the ball bearing type ?)

Not sure exactly what constraints he would put on its usage or if he considered the swivel a failure point etc. (We used it for land drills