In fishing, one of the most important elements and that we take the least care of is the line. The line, gut, thread or hair (whatever we want to call it) does not usually have all the care it requires Fishing charter Florida keys. We usually fill the spools with thread and forget about it indefinitely.
However, if we think about it, it is the most important piece of our equipment: you can fish with a rod or a reel in poor condition, but as long as the line is not in good condition, the fishing will never happen. So we should pay more attention to it.
Fishing line care requirements are very simple:
Watch out for the sun
Do not leave the rods and reels in the sun because it could burn our equipment.
Wash with fresh water
Sweeten all the material well after the fishing day. Basically, it is about washing the spool and the thread with fresh water, but without subjecting it to pressure, since pressurized water usually damages the spools. The fresh water must be very abundant to gradually undo the salt inside the reel.
Renew hilo each season
Change the thread on the spool every season. This way we will ensure the optimal state for our combats. This is something that, as a general rule, is only done in deep-sea fishing because if the material is not in perfect condition, it cannot be fished.
I know that it can be somewhat expensive, but many times it is less than we think, because we find quality thread spools on the market at very affordable prices. For example, 500 meters of 30-pound nylon for just 15 euros, does not seem prohibitive to me for the profitability of the matter, if we think that a brand artificial one costs us that or more.
Mount the thread by rewinding backwards
Put the end of the spool at the beginning: once a year we can take out the thread and rewind the spool upside down. This is how we will fish the second season with new line, since we regularly never take more than 20% of our line off the spool and in this way it is almost as if we were brand new.
Minimum standards
Carefully select the thread. It should be approved by IGFA, the international sport fishing association, which guarantees minimum quality standards.
We must take into account that the explicit resistance in the labels of the coils and know that sometimes the threads break at 60% or 70% of the maximum load announced. On the other hand, the reels are regulated to a maximum brake of a resistance of 1/3 of what they mark as maximum load, so what is recommended for a 30-pound line would be that the reel release line at 5 kilos of pressure. Without problems, thus guaranteeing zero breakage due to excessive braking, something very common among beginners. How many times have we heard that a fish in battle broke the line? That's not bad luck, that's always poor preparation or poor condition of the material.
