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This makes me feel a lot better, as it sounds exactly what’s going on with mine. All the more reason to get more rods/reels so I can set this one and then just leave it lol I appreciate the insight.

I hadn’t given too much thought on thumbing until you mentioned it. While I do use my thumb for fine control, admittedly the reel has made me develop a pretty relaxed method of doing so, since it had been so forgiving. I bet if I paid closer attention to my thumb control, that’d solve a lot of issues.

Hi all, Ran into some issues with my carbonlite 2.0 bait caster, and since I’m still kinda of a noob, I wanted help diagnosing an issue and making sure I don’t make the same mistake again. I ran into this issue the other day when I decided to mess with the brakes so I could throw 3inch swim baits with a 1/4oz jig head. I normally have all of the centrifugal brakes on, and my magnetic brakes set pretty darn low, around 2-3. I wasn’t getting the distance I wanted (which I was expecting using this set up on a bait caster), so I turned off 2 of the centrifugal brakes so get a little more distance, which worked perfectly, and ended up getting a couple of decent fish. After awhile I decided to switch up baits, and go back to my regular settings….I wish I had never touched a thing. I kept getting constant birds nests, to the point where I had to sit down for 20 mins or so to get one out. This reel has given me absolutely zero issues until now, but I was now finding that I had to crank my magnetic brakes to the max, and if I had the spool tension set ever so slightly looser than needed, I’d get horrible back lash. so what’s going on here exactly? As I said, the reel has performed beautifully for me in the 5 or so months that I’ve owned, and used on a weekly basis. I make sure to do regular maintenance, usually spool tension is almost an afterthought and is quite forgiving if I don’t have it set perfectly. My plan currently is to just re-spool, clean it up, and get it oiled and see if the issues persist, but I’m curious to get some insight from others. Thanks in advance.