ZJones1994

Hey y'all just wanted to stop in and say hey! I'm a senior in h.s. and awaiting for deployment with the Navy. I'm a TN native, Murfreesboro area nor far from Percy Priest Lake. Stones river was less then 5 minutes from my house and that's where I learned to fish. Last year I moved to Fort Worth and will be moving back to Murfreesboro as soon as I graduate. Around here I havn't found many places just a creek and the pond my hoa keeps stocked. Some catfish, largemouth, stripers, and the occasional crappie. I just got back into fishing after stopping for a few years, mostly due to having no one to take me (only one who likes fishing in my family). I just got my first spinning rod and am looking forward to honing my skills. Especially since the new place in TN has 44 acres with a pond with fish and the stones river running through it,

Hey thanks for all the replies! I ended up completely re spooling it and I think the problem was that when i spooled it I had it off the rod and must have wrapped it the wrong way which seemed right to me if i was holding it upside down.. d'oh. I also wrapped it till there was an 1/8 lip between the line and the edge. I also wrapped it with it laying face up on the ground as opposed to having someone hold it with a pencil and just letting it reel out. Then I went fishing haha. No problems with it except for a couple of times it would hit a point and stop. Then I'd unspool some and go again. No problems! Now I just need to work on my casting technique.

Hey Y'all, I just picked up my first spinning reel two days ago, late to the game i know, but for half the day yesterday I had no problems casting and was casting about 30 to 35 feet. Now when I flip the bail the line doesn't drop at all and when I cast it will either drop about 3 feet in front of me if i cast overhead or 4 feet to the side if I sidecast. I respooled it last night (it unspools counter clockwise) with Berkley Triline XL Smooth Casting in 8lb test (.010" line diameter). I'm pretty sure it isn't over spooled because the reel is rated for 230 yards of 8lb line. The problem was there before i changed line i just changed hoping it would help. I get some small line twists on the reel that i take care of immediately. I'm at a loss so I decided to ask here. Also the rod is just a shakespear catch more fish bass combo.