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A strange equipment failure

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Adam Gladwin:
Hi Mark,

Looking at very early November for about a week or so,my wife knows I may go missing in action for several days if a fishing trip is in the planning,haha.Be great to tee up a trip for sure and catchup too,once the dates are set mate I will let you know,cheers

Ken Best:
I have had this happen also Mark. It was on a cast with PE8 , and I lost a favorite Bigfoot 170.
It was the first cast after landing a GT with around the same drag as you mentioned. I'll admit that I put a little extra oomph into the cast.
As with you, I couldn't get the line out of the gap and had to cut more line off when I got home as the end was buried around 4mm down the spool edge.

My spooling device is now a Tiagra 30 :o
I wind the spool of braid fairly tightly onto the Tiagra and attach it to a longish rod. Set the lever drag to the desired resistance and I invite a friend to hold the rod at an angle where I can see the pressure I am applying when winding by the bend in the Tiagra rod.
If I see a gap in the Stella spool anywhere, I get the Tiagra friend to wind some line back onto it and then I go again...
Hope this makes sense...

Cheers
Ken

Mark Harris:
Ken, thanks for that and sorry to hear that you had the same issue.  I like the Tiagra winding device solution :) . 

So that's three instances/observations of the same problem.

I have actually now stripped all my Stella and compatible spools, and will be very carefully re-spooling them bearing in mind Brandon's and Ken's advice.

Adrian Braun:
Thanks, and thanks for the link too

Craig Maree:
Hi Mark

Thanks for the warning.

Is it possible to post a pic of the issue ?

Cheers

Craig

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