Nobody fishing?

[dingbat]

I think that....... The drag knob sides are cylindrical and as I cast the line the braid prescribes an acr and when I wind as the bail arm goes over there is enough slack line to allow the 1st loop to wind around the knob ...if I had noticed at this point I could save it but......so it winds around the knob untill there is no more room and then drops down and winds onto the spool as normal, and this really complicates things as trying to get the line off the spool is easy but then trying to unwind braid that has now come off the knob as per pic just doesnt happen, and there is now braid lying all over the place from where I unloaded the spool .
So I now after the cast I wind handle to get the bail arm to go over and then swing the rod back a bit to tighten the line and then wind on as normal . If that drag knob had a bit of taper on the sides it wouldnt happen and being as it chrome plated plastic ( has a metal insert ) trimming a bit off it probly wont work .

Use a braid friendly reel, don’t overfill the spool and manually close the bail after a cast. wind knots go away

 

[Mc Tool]

Use a braid friendly reel, don’t overfill the spool and manually close the bail after a cast. wind knots go away

One thing I can assure you is that I am NOT going to be manually closing the bail....may as well use a hand line.
The spool is def not over full ...now as I have lost about 50m of line offa it in the last couple of days and I think it only held about 100m .

 

[Mc Tool]

No winds to speak of. The breaking waves are the two currents concluding.

“The Point” is formed by the convergence of the warm Gulf stream waters coming up from the South and the cold Labrador current coming down from the north.

One of the holy grails of the surf fishing world. People come from all over the world to fish that Point of land. Fisherman are 3-4 persons deep when the “bite” is on.

Cape Point, Cape Hatteras, NC

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I bought 2 x surf casting set ups and havnt used them yet. I want to go fishing for elephant fish (shark related ).
Do you use a bait cannon ?