For those of you who fish bailed reels, do you flip it manually (by hand) or do you crank the handle to flip it automatically?

I was told years ago that you should always flip it by hand and have done it that way ever since.

i remove the bail trip spring in all my spinners so i have to close them manually

ummm bails??? Ok well convench does not have em... and My spiiners end up gettin them cut off!!! they are evil and must be punished and destroyed.....:rotf2:

Learned from a sharpie real early on to manually flip. It becomes habit very quickly.

I mainly fish bailless or conventional now but when fishing a reel with a bail I’ll always close it by hand. I also make sure the line is lying on the spool correctly to avoid knots.

I flip them manually now.....

I manually close the bail on fresh and salt spinning reels.
It's just a force of habit I picked up from when I first started using braid on my surf setup to help prevent the creation of bird nests when the loose line on the spool would be pulled off during a cast.

From fishing at night I began to flip manually and make sure the line was on my roller and unfouled. Then I got a Van Staal, then I started hacking bails off of my other reels....

Don't trust bails - it'll cost you plugage.

i flip manually and put the braid on the roller by hand and give it a pull to make sure all is good.

i like bails, they make it easier (for me anyway) to get the line on the roller when a fish is runnin with my eel in the dark, on a pitching boat with numb hands after 12 hrs of straight fishing.

yeah I flip manually and make sure the line is on the roller

i flip manually and put the braid on the roller by hand and give it a pull to make sure all is good.

Same here when I'm using braid. I've run into massive headaches with braid when I don't flip manually then pull tight.

I flip the bail manually...been removing the trips ever since I bought a reel from Niko that had that done. also helps stop the bail from flipping shut when I don't want it to. saves a few plugs from being cast off.

Auto-close equals massive wind knots... close it by hand, make sure the line is on the roller after every cast... no more knots

Bail = BAD. Destroy all bail. Fish conventional

I have never had the bail problems with the thing slamming shut and losing the plug, I open the bail in the same position every time though and I think that has a lot to do with it, as I've had buddies use my reel and have it happen to them.

Auto-close equals massive wind knots... close it by hand, make sure the line is on the roller after every cast... no more knots

been there .....all set with that

Bail = BAD. Destroy all bail. Fish conventional

:agree: :btu: Eels plus convench makes it easier to:cheers2: while :fishin: now just gotta start drinking....

Flip the bail manually too many times it didnt close all the way doing it auto.