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03-29-2010, 10:30 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Easton, MA
Posts: 5,737
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Question About Bails
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.
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03-29-2010, 10:32 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: marshfield
Posts: 3,620
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i remove the bail trip spring in all my spinners so i have to close them manually
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my 1st wife didn't like me fishing so much
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03-29-2010, 10:36 AM
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#3
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 397
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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.....  |
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03-29-2010, 10:40 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2004
Location: South of Boston
Posts: 2,605
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Learned from a sharpie real early on to manually flip. It becomes habit very quickly.
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The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. ~John Buchan
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03-29-2010, 10:44 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2004
Location: CT/RI
Posts: 1,627
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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.
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03-29-2010, 10:53 AM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
Posts: 18,203
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I flip them manually now.....
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"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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03-29-2010, 10:54 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Hyde Park, MA
Posts: 4,152
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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.
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03-29-2010, 11:03 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: trying for Truro
Posts: 583
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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.
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All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.
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03-29-2010, 11:53 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 352
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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.
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"never met a bluefish i wouldn't sell"
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03-29-2010, 12:18 PM
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President - S-B Chapter - Kelly Clarkson Fan Club
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Rowley
Posts: 3,781
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yeah I flip manually and make sure the line is on the roller
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03-29-2010, 12:52 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 5,238
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Quote:
Originally Posted by maddmatt
i flip manually and put the braid on the roller by hand and give it a pull to make sure all is good.
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Same here when I'm using braid. I've run into massive headaches with braid when I don't flip manually then pull tight. |
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03-29-2010, 02:32 PM
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#12
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Hull, MA
Posts: 512
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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.
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03-29-2010, 02:57 PM
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Pete K.
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 2,953
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Auto-close equals massive wind knots... close it by hand, make sure the line is on the roller after every cast... no more knots
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03-29-2010, 03:54 PM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
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Bail = BAD. Destroy all bail. Fish conventional
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No boat, back in the suds.  
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03-29-2010, 04:22 PM
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President - S-B Chapter - Kelly Clarkson Fan Club
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Rowley
Posts: 3,781
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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.
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03-29-2010, 05:04 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: CT
Posts: 95
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ivanputski
Auto-close equals massive wind knots... close it by hand, make sure the line is on the roller after every cast... no more knots
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been there .....all set with that |
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user."
An Autobiography, 1913 Theodore Roosevelt
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03-29-2010, 06:51 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 397
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Quote:
Originally Posted by piemma
Bail = BAD. Destroy all bail. Fish conventional
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  Eels plus convench makes it easier to  while  now just gotta start drinking.... |
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03-29-2010, 09:01 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 6
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Flip the bail manually too many times it didnt close all the way doing it auto.
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