This is weird. I have one inshore spinning reel loaded with braid and three more loaded with monofilament. All of my outfits are sprayed down with warm water after every trip. This past weekend, I noticed that salt water had dribbled out of the braid and corroded the aluminum spool of the one reel to the point that the spool must be discarded. This happened over a period of maybe six weeks. This has never happened before on any other reel. Now I am concerned about a brand new Shimano casting reel loaded with 20# braid. Has anyone ever had a corrosion problem from braid holding salt water and releasing it after reel storage? Hopefully this was just a fluke and will not happen again.
Great now you got me worried bout my new battles…thanks
It was not my intent to make other fishermen be worried, but it did happen to me. Maybe the spool was a crummy alloy or defective, or maybe I did not rinse the spool well enough to remove all of the salt.
Braid will hold more water which has two negative effects. One is the greater amount of salt being held in the line and two the line stays wet longer causing the galvanic corrosion process to be active longer.
I double rinse my reels. The first rinse get a majority of the salt off. After the first rinse the fresh water will actually help pull residual salt from the line as salt likes to travel from a higher concentration to a lower one. Follow up with a second rinse 10 mins later and shake the excess off with the rod pointed downward to get the water out from around the drag knob.
I have several Penn Battles as well as Slammers, Spinfishers, Abu baitcasters, Stradics, etc. Many are 10+ years old and have no big issue with spool corrosion. Invariably you will get some especially if there is a scratch or around any stainless screws. Identify these spots when changing line, clean the oxidation off and coat with some grease or corrosion inhibitor if possible.
Iain Pelto
Sea Hunt Triton 160 w/ 90 ETEC “JB3”
Native Manta Ray 14
Thanks for the informed tip Mister Hairball. It does make good sense. In my case, the braid was only rinsed once and then set in the corner for several weeks. I will be careful to rinse braid twice as you suggest. Luckily, only the spool was boogered up and I have a spare. The inner workings of the reel are fine. Yhanks again for the info.
I have several reels that I fished in the salt for years all with braid and only had that problem one time. It was with a cheaper reel. Glad you brought this up as I did not know what caused the corrosion and the reel was new. You should have no problem with the better reels like the stractics, symetres, battles etc rinsed properly as suggested.
19’ Seapro 150 Yamaha
12’ Hydrocraft 25 Evinrude
If that’s all I have to worry about…there’s nothing to worry about.
I, also, have only had this happen on cheaper reels, but take hairball’s advise, as this will keep all your reels no matter the price, in the best shape possible.
Make sure all you Girls rinse those Spinning Reels in the Horizontal, not Vertical position to keep h20 from getting into reels, or just Dog down the drag.
Yall prolly know that but maybe some did not. 