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spiral wrap technique
Posted by: ALTON BENTLEY (---.bragg.army.mil)
Date: December 05, 2006 12:55PM

when I do a spiral wrap the first guide/butt guide from what I have read you can either start left/right or almost straight. Question: For instance if the butt guide goes left so many degrees and put the next one or two to the right? Or if I go right with the butt guide so many degrees and the next one or two go to the left? Pro's and Cons. Thanks.

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Re: spiral wrap technique
Posted by: Anonymous User (Moderator)
Date: December 05, 2006 01:42PM

Offsetting the butt guide to the side opposite to the side that you carry the line was done to keep the line from stacking to one side of the reel spool when retrieving hard pulling crankbaits. It is more of a problem with certain baits and with certain reels (wide spool models being somewhat more likely to do this).

I'm not sure that there are any real "cons" to doing it, although I'm not sure it's really necessary on more than a few applications.

If you do it, you only want to offset the butt guide far enough so that the oncoming line is on the 0 degree axis.

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Re: spiral wrap technique
Posted by: Steve Gardner (---.nc.res.rr.com)
Date: December 05, 2006 02:33PM

Mike;
I don't offset my stripper guide to the opposite side. Most of my bass rods are spirals. Including my crank bait rods and to date I have not had a problem with line loading up on one side of the reel. May be if I were using a lighter rod it might. But most of my rods do little flexing between the reel and stripper guide. I personally believe the line is going to go were the line guide on the reel dictates and not were the stripper guide might. Might also be a problem on larger reels or reels with out line guides. But not on most types of reels used in bass fishing.
Of curse this has been my personal experience other may be getting different results.

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