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This video is about how to spool a fishing reel with new line. If you want to spool up a new fishing reel, or you have old fishing line to replace, here's a quick and easy way to do it at home without any special equipment – even if you're by yourself.
In this video:
0:00 - What you need to spool a new reel
1:03 - Feed the line through the eyelets
3:16 - Loop the line on the reel
4:39 - Clamp line to countertop
5:44 - Reel up the new line
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What's up everybody, it's Simon from Leica. Today we are spooling up a brand new reel
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with some fresh line. I'm going to show you how to do it by yourself even if you
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don't have a reel spooler. Here's everything you need. Of course you need your new reel
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you need some line, and one of these bad boys. That's right, a number two pencil. That's it
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That is if you have some extra hands. If you have a helper because they're going to put this on the
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pencil and hold it and kind of push in a little bit, give it some friction. That's all you really
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need. It's all you really need. If you're by yourself I'm going to show you how to do it with a couple clamps. I also have a cutting apparatus. It could be a pocket knife or anything
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You just need a snip of line when you're all done. That's it. As far as clamps go, any style
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I'm going to put them on the edge of the counter. I'll show you how to do that in a minute. First
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we're going to start by feeding this through our eyelets. I'm going with six pound test here. This
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is actually a micro light rod. It's kind of a full-size micro light. It's about six feet and
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it's a full-size reel. It's a full-size reel but it's a light action and it's a light rod. We're
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going to do six pounds kind of an all-purpose for what we're going to be using this rod for
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So we'll start off getting a length here and feeding it through the eyelets from the top
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Now you don't have to do this. You can go straight from your line, your brand new line
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straight onto the reel. But I like to put it through the eyelets and there's a reason why
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Because I feel like the memory in the line doesn't get carried as... I feel like the memory
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in the line, which is from sitting wound up on the shelf, especially monofilament line
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which is kind of your basic fishing line, that memory is going to get transferred a little more
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directly unless you run it through the rod. So I like to put it through the eyelets because how
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your reel is going to be reeling it up on the line through the eyelets is how it's going to
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be happening when you're fishing. So the best thing to do if you have the option is once you're
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spooled up, if you have a boat, you can let all your line out and troll really slowly and all that
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memory, all the twisting and everything, all the kind of looping, it'll all work itself out and
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straighten itself out in your wake. So that's really the best way to get rid of the memory in
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monofilament line. But if you don't have that option when you're spooling up, I just recommend
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using the whole length of the rod if you can. So now that we have it fed through the eyelets, I'm
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just going to do a lasso right here on the end. I'm going to tie a lasso. So just a regular old-fashioned
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overhand knot, something basic. All you're really trying to do is just put enough tension on there
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to get the spooling started. Got a little too much tag in there. I'm going to cut that off
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Just want a little bit. A little bit's okay. All right, so now we're going to loop this over the end, over the reel
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with the bail open, and just tight enough to get it started. All right, so now what I'm going to do
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I'm going to hold this line tight with one hand. This is where it gets tricky. You kind of want to
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either want to hold it tight enough or just loosen just a little bit. All you're trying to do is get
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it started. Okay, I got it started. So sometimes you might need to like hold that lasso on there
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while you start reeling a little bit. But now that we got it started, now I can kind of back up and get a
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little more on there. There we go. I feel good about that. And now we can rig up our contraption. So what I
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want to do is I'm going to step back and I'll be reeling it from this side. And so I want it to be
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coming up from the backside here, just to kind of be more of a natural flow on the reel. Put my magic
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pencil through here, open up my clamp. Clamp's a little overkill in this situation, but it'll work
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Clamp to the counter there. I'm going to use my other clamp to put a little bit of pressure on it
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Let's see if I can get this through here. Oh yeah, there we go. So there's a little, just enough friction
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You just want enough friction so it's not just free spooling and you don't want the line to be loose. You
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want the line to be tight while it's going on to your reel. And if you do that, you'll be fine. So I've got a
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little tingle here. I'm going to back it up. And I like to hold it kind of close to the eyelet. So I've got a
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nice tight, almost like a guitar string. I mean, I'm really tight here. The tighter that it goes on to the reel
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the less likely you're going to have, you know, kind of a rat's nest or, or any sort of kind of things going
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haywire when you first get to use it. Because you can see there's a lot of loops. There's a lot of memory going
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on in this line here. So we're going to get started. I'm going to get started slowly. Kind of work out these
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first. See our reel, our spool starting to spin there. I just kind of plant it into my hip, hold it with my hand
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And now we can go nuts. I don't want to, I don't want to spool it all the way to the top. That'd be too full, but you want plenty of line
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out there. So if you hook something big and you need to work it, it's got plenty of line to work with
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We're almost there. A little over halfway there. Stop and check here. So it's going on well. It's going on good
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I don't see any problems, any kinks or any weird little loops or anything like that. So we're looking good
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We'll get back to it. They make a, they make a device that, you know, holds the spool and everything like that. It makes it, you can actually
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mount your reel onto it and just go straight on, on there. And those are handy, but if I can do it with stuff I already
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have around the house, I'm going to do that. That's more my speed
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All righty. We are almost, it's almost full here. I don't, you know, again, I don't want it to be overly full because you're more likely to
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have kind of a rat's nest or some kind of loop or tangle or something
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And this one is from my son. So I think I'm going to call it right there
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So we're just going to snip it off. If you're heading out, this would be a good opportunity to tie a lure on
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For your first couple casts, I would recommend some kind of swivel, you know, like a snap swivel, swivel snap, whatever you
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call them, so that whatever action in the lure isn't going to, you know, make your line tangled more or, you know, curled up
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more or anything, twisted more or anything like that. So, you know, the first couple casts on a fresh spool, you'll want to
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what I like to do is put a really, really heavy lure on there with a swivel and just chunk it as far as you can, get as much
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line in the water as you can. And then as you reel it in, that swivel, the line will kind of twist the swivel and it tends to
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just sit back on here a little bit better than fresh off the spool, I think. All right, then there's a little keeper on here
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Hopefully you can see this little gray nugget. You just get some big old fat fingers here. Come on, guy. You just loop it
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around the bottom like that. Flip the bail back down. And now this one's ready for the rack. It's ready to head out to the lake
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have some fun. That's how you spool it up at home without any fancy tools or accessories. I'm Simon from Leico. Get out on the
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water. We'll catch you next time
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