My older brother got me hooked on Bass fishing as well. He lived about an hour away from us but every weekend when he came home we would go fishing at some ponds. We mostly fishing spinners. I remember he had bought a baitcaster and left it there and I tried it and birdnested it so bad all the line had to be cut off. I really thought he would be mad and I had thought I ruined the reel. He came home that weekend and just laughed and respooled it.