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[HarveysMinnow]

Greetings fellow members. I'm a newbie to this forum (even though I've been fishing for bass for at least 50 years), so please bear with me if I commit a breech of protocol by posting in the wrong place. One thing Ive learned in all these years of fishing: No matter how much you know there's always more to learn...and that includes learning how to use this forum.

I wanted to post a comment to the thread on line spool notches, but I found that this thread had been closed. In the past, I've run into this infernal notch issue also, and I came up with a rudimentary solution:

What we need is a secondary surface for the line to impinge upon as it leaves the spool, so that the line cannot dig into the notch. This requires finding something with a slightly larger diameter than the spool, which can be temporarily fastened to the spool on the side facing the reel. I have found that a discarded CD-ROM works well for most line spools. Use double sided tape to mount the CD against the spool, and try to get it as close to centered as possible. If the CD isn't wide enough to protrude beyond the spool lip, try something else, like an aluminum pie plate or anything with a smooth circular edge. Whatever you use, it just needs to be fixed flat against the side of the spool, so that the notches are taken out of the equation.

I hope this suggestion is worthy of your consideration and that it will remove some of the frustrations involving notched spools.

and remember...