Re: Incremented fishing line
Do this: holding your rod/reel in one hand, strip out the line with your other. Start next to the reel with every strip and extend the pulling hand the same distance (as far as you can reach) every time. Do about 3 or 4 pulls and then measure the length of the line you stripped. Now you know how many pulls it takes to put out a specific length of line. This works with casting/trolling reels as well as spinning reels.<br /><br />Or: (and this is the method I use) observe how many times the line goes back and forth on the reel (casting/trolling reels) and measure that. Say 8 feet per direction, 10 times = 80 feet. A rough and dirty measurement is that each time line traverses across the face of the reel, 10 feet of line have gone out (and it's semi-accurate on many of my reels). I haven't bothered to figure out a similar method for spinning reels, but there's no reason you couldn't (of course, less line will go out on a full reel than an almost empty one, but, hey, who said fishing was an exact science?)<br /><br />Now you can still use your favorite line and you also can keep track of how much line is out. Of course, if you're in current or trolling, you have to adjust, but that's a different story....
