REMOVE TWIST FROM LINE ON A SPINNING REEL

Spinning reels, by design, add a small amount of twist to the line with every revolution of the bail. After a time, these small twists accumulate and make the line difficult to manage.

Pay It Out

Clip off the terminal tackle, open the reel bail, pull line off the spool, and feed it out through the rod. From a moving boat, the line will pull itself off the reel once a portion is in the water; or you can feed the line to a hard-running current from shore. Pay out more line than you’ve been fishing with and let it hang for a minute. The friction of the water will remove the twist as you reel up to rerig and get back to fishing.