Rich, I was having the same problem with my new 6.6' ultra light rod
and a 1500 Sahara Shimano reel. I went down to 8# Power pro from 20#
and it appears to have solved it. I may try waxing the 20# as I like
the heavier test for when a toothy critter hits my small lures, less
bite offs. Have you tested out any Teflon spray on a sample of Power
Pro? I'll have to try a test because I do have a few backlashes on my
Abus with 50# Pro. Not as often as you are talking about though.
Maybe I am throwing heavier lures? Any problems with waxy thumb?

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 03:29:28 GMT, "RichG"
sent into the ether:

On another Fishing site, a fisherman was commenting that he had a lot of
"wind knots" occurring when casting.
Since I have a lot of small "backlashes" with my Shimano Chronarch reels,
spooled with Power Pro or Stren braid......I suggested that adding paraffin
to the line MIGHT help. I've listed below the results of my one night
trial...

"The Paraffin worked.....After a couple of hours of casting with a Shimano
Chronarch, and getting tiny "backlashes" every five or ten casts.....I put
the paraffin on.

FYI... my 'backlashes" were not the "pull out " kind. They were slight
"grabs" of the line whenever I cast into the wind. The lure would stop in
mid-air...and I'd pull line off the reel, but NO real backlashes ever
appeared. It seemed that the line was just too "rough" or "coarse" to let
the lure go smoothly to windward.


Anyhow, I added the paraffin by letting a ton of line out, and then reeling
back in, against pressure, with the line held tightly against the block of
wax.

Once that was done, my casting distance and smoothness into and also
with-the-wind increased dramatically. In 50 or so casts, I had ONE "tiny
backlash" like I was getting constantly before the addition of the wax to
the line.

I am going to swipe my wife's spray wax ( for floors and furniture, I guess)
and try spraying it on the spool the next time out. RichG"


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