Transfering Line from One Reel to Another?

[Bassbilly]

So I got my reels all spooled up for my first tournament of the season a couple days ago and I went out and fished a local pond to break in some new equipment. I realized that one my cheaper reels didn't handle flurocarbon very well, but I would rather not waste all of that expensive line. Is it alright to transfer line from one reel to another? Has anybody done this?

[roadwarrior]

No problemo.

I would suggest treating the line with KVD Line Treatment

and trolling the line the first time out. Then you effectively

"start fresh".

8-)

[Bassbilly]

Good to hear! I've always just spooled off all my line and started fresh, but fluro is expensive and I'd rather not waste brand new line.

[Raul]

I think by reading your post that you didn 't understand what RW was trying to say, or misunderstood the part where RW said: Then you effectively "start fresh".

He didn 't say you should trash the line. What he mean by you starting fresh is that if you don 't treat the line with line conditioner and troll the line after transfering the line to another reel this is what is going to happen:

You tie the line to be transfered to the new spool and begin reeling in, everything is fine cuz until about 1/3 of the line to be transfered is spooled wide and loose, once you hit the 1/3 mark and from that point until the end of the spool from where the line is being transfered is wrapped around the spool in tighter loops the deeper you go the more tighter the loops are so by the time all the line has been transfered 2/3 rd of it will be coiled up so badly that a slinky has more looseness to it than that line you transfered, in other words, coil wise is worth crap.

By treating the line with line conditioner and then trolling the line until you reach the end of the spool ( no weight attached ) you begin to reel in, as you reel in the twist on the line will slowly be moved towards the end until the twist and coiling has dissapeared, in other words, you "started fresh".

That 's what RW meant.

[roadwarrior]

Exactly...

8-)