What are the symptoms of braid slipping on a spinning reel?

You turn the handle and the spool turns but but the line doesn't come in. Drag will not work properly either.

FM

37 minutes ago, Jcj90 said:

What are the symptoms of braid slipping on a spinning reel?

Did you put mono on first as a backing? If not, that's probably what your issue is. 

Just now, Texas Flood said:

Did you put mono on first as a backing?

Electrical tape. First time not using mono backing reel seems ok when I pull the drag

Then it's fine

I've never had an issue with braid slipping on a spinning reel, and I've never used backing or tape on one either.  I've never had a problem with line digging in either.  It's baitcasters where all of those problems rear their ugly heads for me.  

Greetings All,

 

Back when I did use braid on my reels, I also identified it was slipping. The characteristics and results are similar to not having sufficient drag resistance.

 

While applying a bit of tape to the core of the spool can improve the line to spool engagement. I found at line change time there was issue of the tape adhesive migration and residual shmutz. I attribute it to the high heat environment my gear is exposed to.

 

Note: you don't need to fully wrap the spool core, just a bit piece of tape to alter that smooth surface is needed. Also I've tried different tapes too. The ones with the lower residual are the painter's type which is a lower adhesive tack masking tape.

 

In some instances, I found by simply adding more contact area before fastening the cinching knot improves the line hold on the spool. Basically the addition of several wraps of line increases spool contact area, then apply the cinching knot to fasten the line. Handy for those times when tape is not convenient or available.

 

This was  desirable in that I'm preserving the spool's rotational balance on bait cast reels. It also doesn't significantly alter the line lay on some of the shallow spinning reel spools. Just $0.02 worth of observations to share. Hopefully some of these options can assist in your situation. Be well and cheers!

10 hours ago, Bankc said:

I've never had an issue with braid slipping on a spinning reel, and I've never used backing or tape on one either.  I've never had a problem with line digging in either.  It's baitcasters where all of those problems rear their ugly heads for me.  

Yup, me too.

There are two ways to apply tape to the spool. One is to wrap the spool with electrical tape once around then apply the braid. I like to tie first to the spool first then wrap the tape around one full turn over my knot before adding the rest of my braid. 

If your spool isn't braid ready crazy glue works awesome. Roll on a few turns of line over some liquid brush on glue and it will never slip. When changing line just leave a long section to splice to.