Under/Over lining reel

[kbobb]

For me personally, with the type of fishing I do with a 4 wt line the backing will never see the light of day and is a spacer/filler. I recently have been using 30 lb test berkely big game (or something like that - uber cheap) monofilament from wall mart. You can do the reverse fill like Bamboozle wrote or just wing it - if you put on too much backing/mono just peel it off.

 

[Bamboozle]

The appeal of the imports for me is finding stuff I want that I can't get in the USA and discovering stuff that is ideally suited to the type of fishing I do but I never knew it existed...

I can do without the hard to get part.

The 4'10" rod will be used for trout or pan fishing in small creeks doing what is called "flick casting." With flick casting a soft tipped fiberglass rod is used to quickly and easily launch a very light lure with a bait casting reel especially designed for light, light lures.

You can do the flick casting thing with the fiberglass spinning version of the same rod, but I have a bunch of bamboo spinning rods that are ideally suited for the same purpose so I flick cast them with a spinning reel.

Coincidentally,, I would have never known about the technique or tackle if I wasn't interested all all kinds of fishing.

 

[Silent Ocelot]

I like the hard to get aspect as there's just a good feeling about fishing something exquisite besides other people with basic department store setups. Helps me achieve "the high" in the sport and shows that I put a lot time in tracking down a unique reel for said rod as opposed to making some brain-dead consumer decision, "iT wOrKs". Won't catch me a MaxCrap or PissFun. In my mind a see a "perfect combo" of rod and reel and then I get the components as I see fit. I once had a SAGE 503l, one of 250 units made worldwide. I may also have a rod that is one of 400. I had to check production numbers on that model to get a more detailed report as I think there were more made, and no, it;s not a SAGE ONE or Method Elite. I think there were 400 of the ONE Elites distributed. In my mind I think anglers like seeing rare stuff, like seeing on odd-ball retro supercar on the streets.

Different strokes for different folks...

 

[Silent Ocelot]

- if you put on too much backing/mono just peel it off.

Cut it down and retry. That's how I do it.

 

[6xAdams(Jones)]

Cut it down and retry. That's how I do it.

I always overload with backing and have to do this... every time.