Mitchell reel rotation

[Gfish]

The "CAN'T TWIST". What a stupid name for a reel. I'll bet I can get it to twist, just do some trolling or cast a spin-lure with a tweaked shaft.

[Midway Tommy]

If I feel the need to use a swivel, usually only when trolling, I use barrel swivels exclusively, not because  I think they're the best, but because I'm a tight arse, they're cheap and quite a bit more compact than ballbearing swivels. There's really no comparison between the quality of the two. If I'm going after something tough like Northerns or Muskies I'll use a ballbearing swivel, otherwise, for mainly walleye trolling, I use the smallest black barrel swivel I have.

On a little different note, I bought a can of Dupont Multi-purpose Teflon spray lubricant when it first came out thinking it would be a God Send. I hate that stuff! It seems to gum up everything I've ever sprayed it on with some whitish gooey crap.

[quang tran]

Good quality barrel swivel like AFW is all I need . Work better than Chinese ball bearing swivel. for heavy duty deep sea fishing then we may need Sambo swivel

[JasonGotaProblem]

I've previously wondered if fish oil (the supplement) applied with a needle might be great lube for swivels with a smell that might not scare away the fish.

...buttt then Gary says spray your lure with wd40 if you want more hits. Haven't tried it. But it threw the above into question.

Also, the no-twist design clearly didn't catch on.

[Paul Roberts]

Good quality barrel swivel like AFW is all I need . Work better than Chinese ball bearing swivel. for heavy duty deep sea fishing then we may need Sambo swivel

That's good to know.

I've previously wondered if fish oil (the supplement) applied with a needle might be great lube for swivels with a smell that might not scare away the fish.

...buttt then Gary says spray your lure with wd40 if you want more hits. Haven't tried it. But it threw the above into question.

Also, the no-twist design clearly didn't catch on.

There is a rather in-depth chapter in Keith Jones' book "Knowing Bass" about chemoreception (smell and taste) research on LMB and some other fish. He mentions a number of things that bass either hate or simply cannot sense. Among the former are DEET, soaps/detergents, and sunscreens with PABA, nicotine (to minnows anyway). Among the latter: Anything non-soluable in water such as oils; "Neither gas nor oil, for example, is noticeably repulsive to bass. We have offered bass food dipped in straight oil, only to watch them eat the coated morel with no apparent reluctance or side effects. However, various petroleum additives -detergents for example- can transform oil products and make them offensive."

WD40? I'm pretty skeptical about such claims though. Mostly bc of the sheer number of variables involved in a natural environment, esp mixed into our fishing trips. Trying to tease such a singular thing out would require some serious effort most anglers would never do, much less have the controls in place to really be able to say something. Often a few positives is all it can take to convince ourselves of something. Been there, done that. And...will do it again I'm sure.