Ever been spooled?
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I fish primarily salt and have never been close to being spooled. Of course I fish from a kayak so I get pulled around a lot. When sizing reels, I always err on the size of bigger. They generally have larger arbor spools so the retrieve is faster. Also, consider were the ounce of extra weight is. The reel is almost at the fulcrum of the cast, not at the tip, so the extra ounce will be almost unnoticeable.
The only times I’ve been spooled or seen clients spooled it’s been due to outside physical forces aiding the fish and against the angler. Last year we had it happen twice, once while in a boat on a lake that the wind was ripping across so hard I had to stay hammering at the oars just to keep us straight so we could ride the waves without tipping, and once while wading a super high river when the fish swam straight into a class five rapid and kept on going with the current at his back. The first one we finally lost, the second one, amazingly, we landed after an embarrassingly Brad Pit like near drowning experience (no clients were involved in this latter episode). Basically other than those types of conditional events though, it never happens. I do use larger than normal reels and keep plenty of backing on them all the time, but for the most part trout and salmon, even the really big guys, aren’t going to spool you. Backing on the other hand, we see a lot of down here, so it helps to keep that stuff fresh.
I got spooled by a grouper this summer in belize fishing for a cuda on a shallow reef with a spinning rod with 150 yards of braid. We would troll reefs while moving from flat to flat and it hit a cuda tube and took off all of my line in less than 10 seconds! I had zero control of the fish and it was done before i could really react.
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