Reel Repair by Alan Tani

I called NMFS at 930AM today and they told me..."Stand by for update"....Clearly the allotment has been attained. Is that closed as of immediately, or some other time like 12PM tonight??

Side note, I was surprised to find-out the slow growth rate of Rockfish species and the age range of mature ones. For example: Black Rockfish up to 50yrs old and reach sexual maturity at 6-8 yrs. Old.

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Nick

AAANNND the Trophy Category is closed. 

Hope they swim North, get fat, and return to see us in the Fall.

Friendly banter .  Do you mean this guy .

      I am here to learn and share information  .   What provoked me to start this thread is to myth bust some thing that are out there .    I am not picking on the people who posted the u tubes , I just don`t agree with their fixes .  I will break down some of my thoughts in following posts . Here are 2 example were the braid stack rolls around the arbors  .

Yessir, I do like some modern innovations, but I lament the modern over consumption and disposable culture.

"$100k worth of stolen goods" might mean 2 boats.

Good for you on testing different arbor knots, but it is a bit of a stretch to say that you have cured braid slipping  on an actual filled spool. 

You are starting with an unproven assertion that the knot is the problem, and not the spool fill.  Zero testing on full spools slipping and then your "better" arbor knot solving the slippage compared to other arbor tying methods using the same spool filling regimen.

In my experience, several different knots will hold just fine if you put a few extra wraps on the spool before tying the knot. No tape needed.  The statement that "Everything that I looked at and read goes back to tape and a backing to prevent slip on the arbor"  is contradicted , even on this very thread.   

Lots of stuff goes wrong with a low tension spool fill with braid, including line slipping.  We don't know the actual mechanism(s) for the slippage, but there are several theories in this thread - and they all rely on a loose fill as the root cause.

I am 100% behind looking at how to improve arbor knots.  I just don't think that we are doing a service for the average casual reader who comes here to find out what to do about braid slipping,  skims this thread, and comes away with a new knot instead of a properly filled spool.

Here is an analogy for you:  wheels coming off of cars because some folk are not properly tightening the lug nuts.  The best solution will not be coming up with an "improved" Nylock lug nut.   

-J

Fred's WRL191S is really good oil. I purchase it from Jaymor's up in Fresno. I'll need to search a bit to find them. I don't buy it by the gallon but I get it in aerosol cans. I then transfer it to pen oilers as needed. A little bit goes a long way. Here you go: www.jaymors.com