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Need advice on filling spool on new 20000 SW Stella

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Randall Cullinan:
I need to spool up my first Stella, a 20000SW, and wonder if you can get more line on without winding it on. I know the reel is supposed to be very good on laying down line but want to get the maximum on it.

Does anyone know the percentage difference?

Brandon Khoo:

but Randall - if you don't wind the line on, there won't be any line on the spool!?  ;D



--- Quote from: Randall Cullinan on December 24, 2008, 06:10:23 AM ---I need to spool up my first Stella, a 20000SW, and wonder if you can get more line on without winding it on. I know the reel is supposed to be very good on laying down line but want to get the maximum on it.

Does anyone know the percentage difference?


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Andrew Poulos:
Hand winding line on helps when distance casting Ive heard , but once you have packed on the extra (if any line) then start fishing, the line will be packed on as per the spool and you may end up with more line and loose coils coming off.
You can try the shaping washers to alter the line lay but I dont think it will alter dramatically how much you get on(unless you go for quite a conical line lay).

Colin P:

--- Quote from: Randall Cullinan on December 24, 2008, 06:10:23 AM ---I need to spool up my first Stella, a 20000SW, and wonder if you can get more line on without winding it on. I know the reel is supposed to be very good on laying down line but want to get the maximum on it.

Does anyone know the percentage difference?


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Not sure you will gain much trying this Randall. I have a 20000FA and I spooled it as follows -

1 - passed line through rod rings and attached it to the reel via uni knot then wrapped a spool width of duct tape around reel spool

2 - walked 50 yards from my car getting my wife to release line from the spool of 80 test Tuf Line XP then got her to wrap the line round the rubber covered ball socket on the tow bar

3 - pointed rod at car and wound myself back to the car with the reel drag locked up

4 - repeated steps 2 and 3 until I filled the reel.

I got in excess of 450 yards of 80 test Tufline XP on the spool, tight wound i.e. almost impossible to push the line across the spool with your fingernail, using this method and I have followed the same process for all my reels. Don't think I could get any more line on using any other method and the line lay is perfect.

Note: I did have to add one drag washer to the factory setting to achieve perfect line lay.

Travis Heaps:

--- Quote from: Colin Pacitti on December 24, 2008, 07:04:41 PM ---....Note: I did have to add one drag washer to the factory setting to achieve perfect line lay.

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Isn't it a real  :-X when you noticed that only after you've just finished spooling up!  Keep an eye on that Randall, if the line starts lying onto the spool in a cone shape then you need to add or remove one drag washer, depending on which way (top or bottom) the cone is biased.  I thought they were meant to come from the factory set to normal (no cone) but mine didn't, nor did Colin's by the sounds.

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