our new winding station

[alantani]

joey's been spending more time here in the garage because the dummies at the fisherman's warehouse laid him off. that's better for him anyway. he gets fed here, he's allowed to drink on the job (a little) and i pay him twice as much as the warehouse. one of his first projects was to put together the new winding station. i ordered up a second work station from benchpro, joey put it together and loaded it up with stuff.

for monofilament, there is a minimum of one partial and one full spool of every line weight of berkeley big game from 15 pounds to 80. for spectra, i have jerry brown hollow core in 60, 80, 100, 130 and 200, mostly white, but some green, yellow, red and 10 yard metered. there is also some of alan chui's hollow thunder in 80 camo and 130 pound white. i have jerry brown solid in 50 and 65 and a bunch of odd and ends.

you've seen the winder before. it allows me to wind a penn international 50 in high gear with 20 pounds of tension because of the massive electric motor that jim nomura installed. the spool tensioner was torn apart and rebuilt with carbon fiber drag washers.

i mostly use a tony pena knot, but can still do wind ons!

and lastly, the working surface is high enough that my beer frig will fit underneath. priorities, priorities......

[Blood Knot]

Love the setup Alan - particularly the thought given to the beer fridge fitting.

Cheers

Blood Knot