hhhmmm, that upset me off.

[fishingonly2002]

well, I was trolling for salmon out of my kayak, at about 10 feet underwater, with a spinner, and I had about a 10 foot leader of floruo and a maine line 8 pound test, connected with a swivel.  after trolling for about 30 minutes with no succes, I decided to move into a shallow bay to try for some bass. when I started back trolling again after trying for bass, I opened my bail and these HUGE spun up sections of line exploded out of my line like flies escaping from a jar. it was ridiculus. now how do I keep that from happening? any help would be really appreciated.


~Neal

[Skipper]

Did you use a ball bering swivel, or just a cheapo?
Some of the low end swivels on the market do little to nothing.

[fishinfergy]

Some times that happens to me when fishing lite tackle, because the line isn't wound on tight enough.  So i run it through my fingers keeping it taught while realing it in.

Ferg

[Marcus]

sounds like you need to buy some good ball bearing swivels to me always used to happen when I trolled spinners until I switched to a better swivel .

[pirkaus]

I have to agree with quality swivel crowd
I switched a few years ago and what a difference
No more big birds nests

[winnisquam]

 Size of the swivel makes a difference too. Should use nothing bigger than 20# for fresh water.

[fishingonly2002]

poo. the size got me there, im on the hunt for some more again haha

~Neal

[winnisquam]

another idea is to use bead chain for lite tackleor go to a bait casing outfit.