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Hey! What's up? You are here today with Nick the Informative Fisherman and today's quick tip, we are going to be discussing how to avoid backlash and if it happens, how to fix it.
The first step to avoiding backlash is avoiding hitting objects without your thumb being placed on the spool. Sometimes when you go to cast, you can clip a tree branch and your thumb is not on the spool and you will see that the line tries to hurry off the reel, in a real quick fashion, and it ends up lifting all your line up and it's unable to escape the reel which causes a big bird's nest and that's what we will talk about, when we say backlash, it's a big bird's nest and all the line from right up here on the reel will spool up and I will show you that a little later on how we can fix it.
Another key thing that you want to know about when you purchase your bait casting reel, you don't want to put on heavier line than what's recommended for your reel, otherwise the line will try to force itself up off of your spool and that could actually cause you to bird's nest. I know some guys still do it when they are flipping, but when you are casting, you want to use the recommended line weight for your reel.
One of the most important things about a bait casting reel is your spool tension knob. Every time you get out to the water, you are going to want to make sure you keep a very close eye on this. Every lure that you use or tie on that day weighs a little bit different from the next and it's very important that you have your spool tension knob just with a little bit of tension enough to when you click down your spool release, that your lure falls at slow motion. You don't want it to just fall, bam! and hit the ground and cause a bird's nest from that. You want to be able to just click it down and your lure is going to fall real slow to the ground and that's how you know you have got it just right.
Last but not least, it's very important to pay attention to your braking system inside of your bait caster. As you can see here, the little knobs on the outside of it, if you push them in, you have less brakes, so you can cast lighter lures. By pushing them out you increase the brakes on your bait caster to where you would cast heavier lures. So, if you are having a tough time getting adjusted for the weight of your lure, focus on your braking system before you focus on your spool tension knob.
Okay. So, here we have a bird's nest aka backlash, anything you want to call that's fine. Now, what happens normally, when lots of guys get a bird's nest like this, they pop down their spool release and they start working the line out the front. And you get to these knots.
Sometimes you can't pull out; they get a little snugged, just like this one is a snug right here. So, what we are going to do is we are going to place our thumb down. With some good amount of pressure, we are going to reengage the reel and we are going to go all the way around, once or twice there, and then we are going to reopen the spool release and we are going to start walking the line back out and we got past that knot that time.
So, here we go, see if we can find another. Just keep going and it looks like we are going to be cleared up and that's how you avoid it when you are pulling the line out and you get caught on a knot, put your thumb down real hard, reengage, reel around a couple of times, have your thumb work it loose, pop it back down. Pull it out just past that knot, and you are good to go and that's avoiding backlash and escaping backlash with Nick the Informative Fisherman. Best of fishing.
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