Re: Thumbing the spool... Archived Message Posted by Panser on 22/8/2012, 4:24 pm, in reply to "Thumbing the spool..." My first OH reel was a penn 500 jigmaster it had a nice shoulder on the spool( backelite spools) that you could thumb down on. With the newer reels if you have centrifugal or mag brakes not a lot of braking is requierd if your reel is set correctly. I always tend to tighten the reel up a bit more when casting into the wind, you loose a bit of distance but gain time by not picking out birds nests as Neil said Message Thread: Thumbing the spool... - EditB 22/8/2012, 11:29 am Re: Thumbing the spool... - racepics 22/8/2012, 12:08 pm Re: Thumbing the spool... - EditB 22/8/2012, 12:18 pm Re: Thumbing the spool... - Neil 22/8/2012, 2:35 pm Re: Thumbing the spool... - Panser 22/8/2012, 4:24 pm Re: Thumbing the spool... - Mark Roberts 22/8/2012, 4:55 pm Re: Thumbing the spool... - PhilipDannevirke 22/8/2012, 5:15 pm Re: Thumbing the spool... - Phill 22/8/2012, 6:32 pm Re: Thumbing the spool... - Neil 22/8/2012, 8:10 pm   Searching