Gray Hill

Awesome, thank you guys. This was so helpful. Have a good rest of y'alls weekend!

Have any tips for color?

Gotcha, I think I'll give 10lb a try, anything has to be better than my current situation. I'll look into the Yo-Zuri Hybrid, ya'll have another other suggestions for line?

The reel is a Okuma Stratus VI Spinning Reel, size 3000

Trilene XL smooth casting 12lb mono My first attempts at putting the line on I kept tension but every time it would twist on itself. Some attempts I the spool was on one side and some attempts it was on the opposite side to see if that would help. My “successful” attempt, the spool was on the correct side. I will say I didn’t have as much tension bc as soon as I used some tension it would tangle. My gut says it’s probably not on tight enough. the knot was two regular overhand knots. I know it’s not the best, for this situation.

1. Spinning 2. I did a double knot and put a little piece of tape over it. (Per a YouTube video) 3. Yes

Hi all, I recently got into fishing and when I was putting my line on my new reel it took me probably 5 tries to finally get it. It kept tangling no matter what I did. After putting the line on the reel, I've been fishing several times. Today I had a bass and no matter how much I reeled the fish in, I wasn't making any progress. The line wouldn't reel in, rather it kept twisting on itself. Even when I wasn't reeling a fish in, the line would come off the spool. I did the trick where you put the spool full of line in warm water for a few minutes to get rid of it's memory after you've filled your reel with line, but it doesn't seem to have helped. Any suggestions? Thanks