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Re: Storing reels with the drag/tension loosened?
[Re: twstephens77]
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04/05/17 06:11 PM
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Okie Poke
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Re: Storing reels with the drag/tension loosened?
[Re: twstephens77]
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04/05/17 06:18 PM
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Chet
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It's like using snap caps in an O/U, which I do between hunts. But drag on a reel I never touch but probably should.
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Re: Storing reels with the drag/tension loosened?
[Re: twstephens77]
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04/06/17 07:11 PM
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Nathan "Bull" Montgomery
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Just upgrade your drag washers to carbon and you wont have any problems. The problems come from the plasticy feeling type fiber washers. They are easily crushed and if you ever go to service the reel you will destroy them trying to get them out.
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Re: Storing reels with the drag/tension loosened?
[Re: Ken A.]
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04/06/17 09:16 PM
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Fisherdad58
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"In the old days" we used to do that after every trip. Reels from 1974 didn't use the same material the newer reels use for washers. I never back off my drags and sometimes they sit for a couple months without being used That being said, I certainly don't think it hurts. On my first cast out of habit I will hold down my thumb on the spool and turn the reel handle just to make sure it slips. I don't keep my drags locked down like some. If I get a big fish up close I want it to slip a bit if the fish makes a hard run right at the boat like they normally do. Those old reels with the felt drag washers is what got the habit of loosening up started with me.
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Re: Storing reels with the drag/tension loosened?
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04/09/17 04:30 AM
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Sunbae
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I always loosen my drag quite a bit after each fishing excursion and when they stay on the rod rack/corner in my room. I do this because one of my friends who was new at fishing kept fiddling with my reel with relatively tight drag, and it snapped the stinger tip off my spinning rod. It's kind of muscle memory now to loosen drag when I put a rig on my hook keepers and tighten drag when I take one off. Barely even think about it.
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Re: Storing reels with the drag/tension loosened?
[Re: Okie Poke]
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04/09/17 09:27 PM
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