If you like Celebrations, Heroes or Quality Sreet, keep hold of the container - perfect for pre-soaking line and braid spools before adding them onto your reels. A couple of days should be enough soaking for most monos or braids. Buy a cheap, narrow Tupperware cereal container and use that to hold your spool in the water while you wind it on. The lid will stop the water (or most of it) from splashing out, and the width of the container will stop the line spool from flipping, which causes the splashing. Ask your tackle shop if they have any old rod butts and then you can have a dedicated butt for loading reels without having to dig a rod out of your holdall. If you don't want to burn your fingers winding the line on, then just tie a tea towel around the rod and wind the line through that - tie it between the rod ring and the reel, above and below. The towel will also take on the colour that sometimes washes off a pre-soaked braid. While you've got the reel off the rod, and the spool off the reel, why not take the time to clean the reel, and add reel oil or reel grease to keep it running smooth? Also a good time to change your toothbrush - old one can be used for your reels, new one for your teeth.

thanks for this mate. really helped me out as im quite new to the fishing world

Nice tip, Joe, about the vent hole in a pan. Thanks for sharing.

That's a very good idea Joe using the vent hole in the pan, Thank you for that

Fantastic tip about washers , been fishing 45 years and never thought about how the washers effects line lay

Makes sense ,never heard of this way before, definitely going to try it ,good health and safe travels, cheers craig

Great tip Joe thanks

Great tip. Saves having to wear a wet-suit to keep dry and chasing the spool around the kitchen 🤣

Perfect timing, was my job for today 🎣

Yes, but what diameter was the backing? Sorry if I missed that!

used the new detextion on sunday awesome it was, had a nice 96 pound for a lake win 99% on the bomb 😁😉 keep up the great content joe the allbright knot is best shockleader knot

Great tip with the saucepan. That's one I will use in future. I thought you may have mentioned the washers that affect the line lay? Keep up the good videos. 😁

Where's that Man Utd mug? Should be on display especiallly after our epic 4-3 win 😁😃

Clever idea..............which I will be using.:)_

Great tips Jo, but next time you film in you kitchen, make sure you’ve cleared the sink and washed up😅😅

Never use electrical tape Joe as when the weather warms up the sticky tape glue melts and you get it all on your line. If you want to use tape use plumbers PTFE tape which has no glue. Its always better to use line as backing but if you want to wrap a few turns of PTFE tape round that you can. I use Preston reels for feeder work but Shimano XRs for float work these come with the plastic reducers which mean no backing necessary wonder why no other manufacturer offer this option or at least offer a low capacity spool' 150 mts is plenty of line for me and l suspect many more.

How many times have we seen this!

When would you use a shallow spool instead of the deep spool . And why are there two types.. never understood why.. get your listening gear around... Crystal viper and burning witches..

i used to get twiddle ups until i got someone to hold the spool with a pencil through the middle thus filling the reel without causing twist

I'm have no idea what's wrong with modern reels I have tournaments tdrs and the line lay on all of them is shocking not matter how hard I try or move washers the line lay is never perfect let alone excellent my mitchell reels 40 years ago had better line lay and less faf with washers I have centris reels as well and they don't supply enough washers in them either asked loads of time for spare washers and only got two but they did try for me.

Cheap braided line for backing.. acts as a cushion .. my son uses it

Joe I've copied every video on here for ages. And still it always ends up looking like spaghetti.. i just take the reel to the shop and they do it for me now.. it's easier .. best line I've used is diawa sensor.. matrix and preston to weak it's like cotton.. best reels sonik 4000 series reels are amazing

Dont get why people do these fancy knots on a empty reel 🤷‍♂️ your putting over 100 metres on