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I can see spools being OK for Blue-water work, or as a back-up, but I tried one the other day from 21 metres in the Cape and it was a pain in the Ronson: gloves, no handle, no ratchet, no brake.... yada-yada-yada.
That, and if I've got about 20 to 30 metres of SMB line to reel in, then I'd rather do it on something with a larger diameter than a beer-bottle top with no handle and has some of the labour-saving principles that Newton's 'Principa Mathmatica' introduced nearly four centuries ago along with the lever and the fulcrum....... greater surface over which to wind the same amount of line?? ;)
What I then bought and have tried out is a Big sod-off Manta with 100 metres of line on it, Uber-ratchet, winding handle, hand-brake and nay sweat. Piece of piss to use with a bottle-fired Buddy SMB. Could not be simpler, rolls-up neatly and fits perfectly into your dry-bag pocket - fire and forget. |