I honestly expected more...... more tech and more photos. just. . . . . . . . . . . more.

Well if you just HAVE to spend some coin to feel good about it...

http://www.fishingtackledepot.com/mo...Code=OGST10050

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Do you know where a WalMart is?
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Berkley-Po...ation/33607321

This was way high tech for me when I got it as a gift, took me 2 years before I started using it.
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w...psmjvqjssa.jpg

spend some coin? oh, hell no. I don't have coin. gonna slap something together with whatever crap I have laying around the garage.

charlie, you'd thump a free watermelon...

you know where I can get a free watermelon??

Trip before last I hooked something that nearly "spooled" me ....free of charge. I locked it down and broke off the 80 lb braid before that happend.

I'm afraid I am rather low tech as well. For spinning I just put tension on the line with gloved fingers with spool laying flat on floor, for casting/conventional, I use a pencil or phillips screwdriver and my feet.

slapped that sh!t together today. wish it wasn't such a pain in the balls to post a picture here.

Personally I would tell your wife to stop complaining and hold the dam line, not to tight