Line amount ?

[8assh0le]

What's the best way to utilize my line. I just spooled up a curado e7 with 10 lb yozuri. What do you guys do with the rest of the spool. Or should I use mono backing on the reel to get 2 reels full. use it for leaders etc? Or is yozuri spools of 275 just not enough?

[Hammer 4]

Buy the 300 yd spools. Use about 40 or 50 yds of cheap mono backing...saves $$$

[Marty]

I use spinning gear, but I'd think the principle is the same. At any rate, I use cheap mono as backing and spool 50-60 yards of good line on top of it, thus getting five or six respools from one 300-yard spool.

[Wayne P.]

I do the filler method with all lines I use. I use about 1/2 reel spool of junk line for a filler or just replace 1/2 of an original full spool of good line when it needs repacing.

For proper bass fishing setups, the bottom half of the spool is never used so why waste good line as a filler?

[Goose52]

X 4

I do the same thing - cheap line for backing, then about 75 yards (or so) of "good" line on top.

As was said, you'll normally never see the backing while bass fishing...but one time I had a 40lb+ grass carp on the line and I saw my uni-to-uni knot disappear into the water as the carp was taking line out against the drag so I knew I had about 80 yards of line in the water.........then I started thinking "how old is that backing?" ;D