IF you take good care of salt water equipment you would rinse it in warm freshwater and a few times a season I strip my reels down looking for trouble spots

also I would think a micro layer thick piece  of tape in no way would weigh enough to counter act the removed metal on a wiffle spool.

BTW I use an Arbor knot

Arbor knot with a 2x surgeon on the tag for all - spinning, BC, Fly - for freash and saltwater.  If braid with no backing a small piece of thin foam tape.

Then again the line that close to the reel spool takes a beating and the breaking strength has to be compromised I would think.

That line rarely (never) sees the light of day, never has any

pressure on it and is probably as fresh as the day it was first

spooled. There is no reason the breaking strength should be

compromised.

8-)

I know I'm showing my ignorance, but the line that comes off the reel when I strip and replace, the closer I get to the spool there is always quite a bit of memory and looks crushed.  I was thinking that the line may be compromised because of the way it looks.  Thanks for the replies I'm learning quite a bit.

Lots of memory from being tightly wound on a relatively

small circumference. It's not something I would actually

like to "fish", but I have never had line break near the

spool even when I have been broken off trying to retrieve

a hang-up.

8-)

I like to put some electrical tape on the spool to cover the holes and then use an Arbor knot. I kinda figure that the electrical tape causes a little bit of friction and holds the knot/line in place while I'm spooling line.

With mono, I use an improved clinch with a simple overhand not on the tag end and wet it and cinch it tight.

With braid I put some type of backing, either old mono with electrical tape over it or electrical tape right to the spool so it grabs. Same knot.

IF you take good care of salt water equipment you would rinse it in warm freshwater and a few times a season I strip my reels down looking for trouble spots

GMTA (great minds think alike)

After each and every use a saltwater reel should be rinsed in a very light spray or dunk in a bucket, never a hard spray as that will push sand into the reel, sand is your worst enemy. After the rinse I spray with Salt X to remove any residual salt.  Every now and then I strip the line off and put the used end on the spool, it's like spooling with new line.

As far as mono, I soak in medium hot tap water before spooling, removes the coil and the line is very limp, may work with existing line, but I've never done it, I would just replace it.