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help with reel

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PROWLER

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Hi, ive got a hf2 90 snd want to use a sportsmatch reel with it (dont know till you try) could someone please tell me or even better have a couple of decent pics showing the best way to rig it up.Do i use mono along the shaft first or the shooting line straight through?? Not sure what the shooting line is as it was already on the reel,
Please help
Prowler
 
I'm not familiar with the gun or the reel, but the principle is the same for all of them. You attach the mono shooting line to the shaft. In my photos its attached to a fin, but your shaft will have a hole. Then wrap once or twice around the muzzle and the line release. A loop is crimped in the rear and of the shooting line, and that is attached to a snap-swivel or pigtail swivel tied to the reel line.

Rigged like this, you can detach the shooting line from the reel line if tangled in rocks or kelp, and you can pull the shaft through a fish in the direction of shot rather than trying to get the barb back out of the fish.
 

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Hi Bill thanks for the reply. There is a small metal loop on the bottom of the muzzle, i wasnt sure if this was a line guide , obviously not as any clips or swivels wouldnt be able to pass through.
Thanks again
Prowler
 
Yeah the metal loop under the muzzle is the guide the for reel-line. Let the reel-line pass through the metal loop, and then connect it to the spear-line via bungee/swivel, cause as you observed no swivel or bungee could pass through the guideline of the muzzle.
 
PROWLER said:
Hi Bill thanks for the reply. There is a small metal loop on the bottom of the muzzle, i wasnt sure if this was a line guide , obviously not as any clips or swivels wouldnt be able to pass through.
Thanks again
Prowler
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I'm glad you mentioned that, because I didn't want to load you down with detail in the first reply.

I'm sure it is a line guide, and clips or swivels won't pass through it. If you want to run the line though it, you have to attach the clip after it goes through.

I choose to wrap the line around that line guide rather than run it through it, and I have two reasons. First, I find it quicker and easier to restring the line after a shot. Second, if the line goes through the line guide, then the clip has to be attached after it goes through, and I think its more likely to get tangled in the wishbones on your shot. However, I use Spectra wishbones. If you use metal wishbones, that may reduce the likelihood of a tangle.

I should confess that I'm probably in the minority. Most people run the line through the guide.
 

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Hi Spaghetti, if thats the case is there any need for any mono raps? or could i just connect the mono from spear load end run it down the shaft and connect it to the shooting line (without any wraps)? will there be enough room for a swivel and clip as anything in front of the line guide seems very close to rubbers and muzzel?
 

I'm sorry, but I'm not sure that I understand your question (it's indeed complicated to explain these things and understand each other without the help of pictures). You'd better stick to Bill Mc, who has lots of excellent pics.

But if I understand, I say yes: you do need to make loops of spear-line. The spear line is attached one end at the shaft butt, and at the other end is conncted to the reel line. All the spear-line will be looped going back and forth from the line release. Simple, no? :duh
 
I've got to leave for a movie now, but I'll try again later.
 

It's hard for me to understand what you meant, but I'll take a stab at it.

The mono is connected to your shaft and to the swivel. If the swivel is on the far side of the line guide, then it has to be pointed back toward the rear end of the shaft if the shooting line is under tension. Unless you take at least one more lap around the line release and the muzzle, you will have less than a shaft length of shooting line, and that won't be enough.

Does that make sense?
 
Thanks Bill i know how to sort it out now, and thanks spaghetti,
All i needed to know was that you need to do a couple of wraps of mono from spear load end to muzzle then back up to line release then add swivel and reel line.
Iwasnt sure how much or how little mono to use before connecting to shooting line (reel line)
many thanks guys
 
Bill McIntyre said:
I should confess that I'm probably in the minority. Most people run the line through the guide.
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Well thats two of us Bill, I stopped running the line through the Muzzle guide on all my guns a couple of years back and won't be going back. I also don't use swivels and clips etc, just the Kevlar tied to a hoop in the mono. Very simple and tangle free, most of the time.
 
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