As far as the majority of KK fishos are concerned, offshore fishing around KK waters is now in the ‘OFF’ season due to the North East Monsoon wind that is blowing from November to March where sea conditions are extremely choppy and swells as high as 2-4 meters (even more) are not uncommon! Artists may marvel at the colorful and beautiful OceanWeather chart for this area but invokes ‘haaiiiyaaah’ resigning and gloomy looks from KK fishos that turn them off save for the hardcorest and seasoned KK anglers! This is in a way a boon to the fish stock population as the off-season allows the time for replenishing of the fish population. On the other hand, this is also a bane to the majority Filipino tekongs as that is the only way they earn their livelihood!
This is a time too to attend to the reel maintenance that some of us fishos always take for granted! This does not mean we should wait for the fishing off season to come to service our reels. By right we should always give our reels a good cleanup everytime we come back from our saltwater trips. In my case, I have spooled out all my braided lines (plus mono backings too) and spray-cleaned with WD40 and oiled my reels so they won’t be a case of malfunction and corroded reels.
Spooling out the braid/mono lines from reels and onto any usable rounded objects manually (can be discarded mineral water 500 ml plastic bottles, plastic handline spool, etc) can be a boring chore, more so if the line is about 300 yards long and even worst a big reel holding 500 yards or more line. Maybe this is not a big deal if only one reel is owned but let’s face it, we fishos actually own multiple reels for different type of fishing situations.
For those fishos with too many reels, fret no more as a simple el cheapo solution is just a DIY away!
Requirements:
Any round-shaped plastic 500ml mineral water bottle
1 set – nut and bolt (size ¼ “ x 1¼”)
2 pcs – 10-cent sized washers (not necessary but added nevertheless as an insurance!)
electric drill (variable speeds better but single speed drill can be used though)
My cost for the above is roughly RM 0.55 (nut and bolt = 15 cent and 2 pcs washers = 40 cent). Perhaps some of you have may have them laying inside your toolbox, so use them. Lagi free! The electric drill I just borrowed lah.
You only need to convert one cap for the line stripper and then you can reuse it on other bottles as the cap size is pretty standard.
So that you get the idea very clear, below are so-so pictures of the DIY line stripper. Enjoy.
Washer of size 10 sen to fit inside lining of cap
Sequence of installation – bolt, washer, cap, washer, nut. (coin is for comparison only)
Check the finished line stripper on the left side of picture.
Mount the bolt end to the drill and then tightening by hand will suffice.
You can do this way! Before you press the drill, make sure you release the drag fully while the spool in engaged (NOT free spool as you might get line backlash on the reel). Then ask somebody to hold the reel while you press the drill very sparingly. Do not press too hard as the drill rotates at incredible speed as you press harder!
As you are stripping line from the reel at comfortable speed, watch your reel. When the line is about a few turns left in the reel, then stop and detach the bottle from drill and continue stripping manually like you would do with a handline spool.
Or you can do my way as I was doing it alone without any help. I used a decommissioned rod (read: patah) on a portable rod holder.
300 yards braid spooled out in less than 2 minutes!
Job done!
Store your lines normally until next outings! (The spritzer bottle is a 600ml one so looks taller but cap size is the same.)
That is really an eye opener![8)]
I wonder can the same method apply into your mulitplier reel? That will really help alot on cranking up weights from deep sea fishing and will surely save alot of time and cash![:D]
boss, if I go to Sabah now or early November, where can I go fishing ex-KK. Hopefully not too far from KK & suitable enough for me to entertain a few corporate client of mine…appreciate your help
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Awesome Manta, great job, I too, using mineral bottle to store my lines but manually & looosely wind up than i soak it in water for a day, it took me hell lot of time. hehe thanks for d new idea.
I think the French cap Fat Rap was using is way too soft…
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guess i need to go look for the right type of cap
one question - does the luminous one works, thinking of in case of emergency it wld b easier to find [;)][:D]
the good old fashion way, manually into the spool by hand cranking unless you are using a electric reel. That’s unless some come up with a drill attachment locking the reel to it.
A very pratical innovation for the line stripper. BRAVO
As Ekwong mentioned, manually crank into the spool back as you would always do when you buy a new set of braid (or mono).
In my case, I replaced the line stripper cap with another standard cap and punched a small hole on the cap and another hole under the base of the bottle. Then I inserted a long sturdy wire (I sacrificed my el cheapo steel spreader for this) through the holes! Now you have a simple spindle like creation. Ask someone to hold the spindle while you crank the line manually OR if you are doing solo like me, then put the spindle inside a shoebox (any cardboard boxes can do lah) and punch a tiny hole at the center of the box from where you run the line through and onto the spool.
a suggestion would be to have the line between two phone directories or a stack of newspapers. This will induce some “weight” and will have your lines spooled tightly when you are cranking the reel. This is important if you are bottom fisherman and is loading 100 to 200 meters of line.
