I have now purchased 2 different Berkeley line winding stations and the plastic spring knobs break within months of buying. What do you guys use to help run line, to keep the spool stationary and with tension?

I always just use a screw driver and my feet to hold it

my wife

a pencil

A screwdriver

Those KVD line leader controls work pretty well..

http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Shark_Tooth_KVD_Leader_Control_And_Cutter_System/descpage-STTC.html

I use a coat hanger. Cut at the ends of the long bottom piece and hold the ends on your feet. Press against the spool with one foot to get the tension you want.

I use the Plano line holders. I drill holes in the bottom and move the rubber gromits into those holes. With five spooles of line in, it has enough weight to hold the tension you are looking for.

Keep the metal rod, grommets, and keepers off the berkely spool station and make one out of wood. Thats what i did when mine broke.

I place a pencil or stick under my knees with the spool attached. I squees my knees together for tension. This is my method if I am alone.

why do you drill new holes in the bottom? I use the existing top holes without issue??

I use a screwdriver and a vice. put the spool of line on the screwdriver and put it in the vice and put it on so it has tension on it. Really easy to do.

My kids

P Line Spooler. Look it up on Tackle Warehouse. It works beautifully

Thumb and middle finger of my left hand, wet the tips of the fingers and good to go. Fast and easy. Ofcourse you goto have large enough hands to do it. Hold the rod between my knees and crank away. Wet fingers help with the friction heat!

Ofcourse I am talking about spooling line into a fishing reel..

Hi,

I use;

rmcboatworks.com (RMC Pro Traveling Spooling Station #BW-110)

pencil between the feet works great.

I use a screwdriver in a vise and then get a rag and tie it tight around the screwdriver, then push it up against the spool to hold a little tension on the line. Been doing this for years and it works great.

My wife and a pencil. She's a good sport.

Berkeley spooling station. Usually it lasts for 3 or 4 years. I don't overtighten the plastic spring knobs just keep my free hand on the spool.

Buy line in bulk on the big spools and lay it on the carpet of your boat, the big spools spin easily. Use your fingers in front of the reel for tension.

For removing old line, an empty toilet paper roll on the chuck of a cordless drill makes fast work of it.

You don't need a spooling station, just another thing to take up space.

Wow you guys are technical about respooling. Sit the spool on the carpet put your rod tip beside the spool so when you reel the spool spins not where it coils off the top. Make sure the label is face up and keep tension with your fingers as it goes in the reel.

I just leave it in the box and use the slot on the side of the box to run my line through. Very easy to do.

If it's only a couple reels, I use nothing. If I have a bunch to do I use the "Cyclone" from www.trianglesport.com

Berkley line winder. So far so good. No problems with breakage of spring tension mechanism. I don't put that much pressure on it though.

What he said! Expensive if you only get to use her for winding line but it works!

Thanks everyone, great feedback

Berkley Spooling Station almost 10yrs old

I love the berkley set up but like he said the tension screws always strip out after a short period of time so I bought one of the p-line spoolers solely for the parts which I now use on the berkley unit and they have worked great for both small and bulk spools.

If your at the lake, drop your spool of line in the water or livewell with water in it, and spool it up. The water will create enough drag and you won't have to worry about the birdnest on the first throw.

I have the Triangle Osprey Linewinder.

http://www.alltackle.com/cyclone_line_winder.htm

Jason

+1

This for 30+ years and ive never had a problem with the line or long relationships

Phonebook - just run the line off the spool thru the middle of the pages...

Friction on the line itself (like through a phoneback) will heat up your line and weaken it. Never put friction on the line itself. Tension on the spool edges.

drive a nail in a short piece off 2x4. will last forever and works fine.

Do to the economy, I have no station, I just set the spool inside and old shoe and get to winding.

I made mine from an old spinning reel where the spool contained the drag washers in it and where the tension knob compressed them to tighten or loosen the drag - If you have ever taken apart an old spinning reel you'll understand this... I took the main shaft that held the spool out of the reel and broke the plastic star that encased the drag tension nut so I could run it down the shaft threads further...then I have a small c-clamp that i can clamp to what ever is close and place the spool of line on the shaft and the smooth side of the spool goes to the reel spool stop washer and then I place the drag washer on next then the tension nut and I can set the tension to what I need and wallah I'm fill'n reels without backlashes to the line spool and keep'n good tension on the line going on the reel...

Sounds like I have the most technical way of spooling line haha. O well. Whatever works

My wife and a pencil works good for me.

what the hell? I throw the spool on the floor and start winding. I tension with my fingers holding the line in front of the reel. I didn't realize it could be that complicated.

Berkley spooling station if I am at the house. Pocket of my tackle bag if I am in the boat.

Papermate pen held between my feet with socks on and slight pressure on the carpet floor !

the hole in the box and my feet or between boat seats

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