Pflueger President Reel Question

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Hey y’all, I have a potentially embarrassing noob question. I recently purchased a Pflueger President 6930 and took it out to Deer Creek for the first time. I hooked into what ended up being, after a 10 minute fight, an 8-10 lb. carp. As I was fighting the fish I noticed that the drag on the reel wasn’t doing much of anything, so I tightened it up during a lull, still nothing. Eventually, I had the drag set as tight as it could go, and the fish was still pulling line pretty easily. Does that sound normal?

I’m asking because, 1: I’ve never hooked a fish that large before, and 2: the drag on the Quantum reel I used before was seemingly impossible to overcome when it was set to the maximum tightness. I’d yanked hard on that sucker when snagged and it didn’t slip any line at all.

Is my reel defective? Thanks,

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No, that’s not normal. I’d take it back or at least take it apart to see if something has come loose.

I’ve actually lost a piece to my drag system on my President and it still works like a charm.[crazy]

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Are you sure that the line isn’t slipping on the spool?

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I don’t think it’s slipping. I had it spooled at Sportsman’s Warehouse, although maybe the guy who did it messed something up because he took the spool apart to put it on his machine. Thanks for the replies.

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+1 If your using a braid or fire line the new line will spin on the spool if no backer is used. I own one and the drag on these is perfect when fighting big fish.

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I had the same issue took it back to sports they did not have the same size as I got. They took another on apart and saw that mine only had one plastic looking washer on the back side of the spool and the other one had two so they went in the back and had an extra put it on and it works awesome now. Love the reel for the price. Hope that helps. pull off the spool and check how many washers you have. just looked at my reel it is a metal washer and a red color washer.

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+1 to what Kent and fishinfool said. That could definitely be the cause of strange slipping, and easily mistaken for a drag issue.

Is it braided line? That braided stuff slips like crazy on the spool.

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Thanks y’all for the input. I’m using 6 lb. flouro on it, if that is more enlightening for anyone. When y’all say slipping, do you mean that all the line on the spool is rotating as one? I haven’t experienced that before, and I don’t think it’s the problem now because the spool has three rubber ridges on it that look like they should prevent that, and I’m hearing that clicking sound a reel makes when you pull out line against the drag. So when I fight a really big fish (I’ve only fought the one on this new reel) it’s making that high-pitched whirring sound reels make when a lot of line is being pulled quickly.

I’ll pop the spool off and root around inside and see if all the little bits are present. Thanks again for the help.