09-29-2016, 06:18 PM
[#0000FF]You have gotten some good advice. Make sure your lure is running true before trolling it out behind you. Some lures run better at slower speeds and may rotate a bit if you run faster. Or, you may need to slightly change the bend of the eye with a pair of needlenose pliers if it gets bent out of position. A lot of crankbaits benefit by some "tuning"...some right out of the box.
The swivel should help...a good quality barrel swivel about 3 feet ahead of the lure. That will also help if your line twist is the result of reeling on a spinning reel while a large fish is pulling line off the drag...or reeling while you are otherwise not bringing in any line. Wipers are great at dogging it and playing a tug of war. If you keep reeling on a spinning reel at that point you will be putting twists in the line. Hooray for swivels. They don't solve all the problems but they help.
Once you have developed some serious twists, take off your lure, open your bail, run the boat at slow speed and let your line out behind the boat. After you pass the point of the twisting, click the bail, hold the line between your thumb and forefinger...ahead of the reel...and slowly wind the line back in. That will take care of most twists.
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The swivel should help...a good quality barrel swivel about 3 feet ahead of the lure. That will also help if your line twist is the result of reeling on a spinning reel while a large fish is pulling line off the drag...or reeling while you are otherwise not bringing in any line. Wipers are great at dogging it and playing a tug of war. If you keep reeling on a spinning reel at that point you will be putting twists in the line. Hooray for swivels. They don't solve all the problems but they help.
Once you have developed some serious twists, take off your lure, open your bail, run the boat at slow speed and let your line out behind the boat. After you pass the point of the twisting, click the bail, hold the line between your thumb and forefinger...ahead of the reel...and slowly wind the line back in. That will take care of most twists.
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