Tip # 42 – Preventing Line Twist and Tangles
Preventing Crow’s Nests in Your Line
A crow’s nest is what you call a tangle of line that forms right at the reel. This is caused by the line being twisted as you cast and drift over and over and can be a major pain in the neck. If you were to hook a fish while this was happening you would have no chance of ever landing it, and would certainly end up having to break the line. I was recently out fishing for steelhead using a float set up on my spinning reel, and I picked up a great tip from a friend to prevent this from happening. He watched me untangle my line repeatedly at the spool where a crow’s nest kept forming for a good couple of hours when he let me in on a little trick to stop this. It is one simple extra step you can take when you are setting up your float. All you need to do is put a swivel above the float so that you are using two swivels instead of just one. This will prevent your line from twisting. So the entire setup is as follows:
- tie a swivel to the line coming from your reel
- tie another length of line to the swivel (length will vary with desired fishing depth)
- attach the float and an appropriate amount of weight
- tie a second swivel to the line
- tie on your leader and an appropriate amount of weight
- tie on your hook
Using this method will help you spend more time fishing and less time untangling your line. It is also very helpful to have good quality line.
great tip… now whenyou want to untwist your line, cut the lure off and release your line allthe way out behind the boat while the boat is moving ahead slowlyonce you get to the spool reel the line in, it will be tight and untwisted. after you land those big fish go to fishingjournals.com and enter your fishing reports for a chance to win a $250.00 cash drawing just for entering your fishing repot.the sit is great, you can get fishing weather and local fishing reports.
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