With braided line allowing anglers to fish heavier drag pressures in smaller diameters with more line capacity, manufacturers had to reinforce critical internal components
DuraCross Drag: A revolutionary drag washer material that offers the smooth initial startup of felt, but with ten times the durability, ensuring consistent drag performance during long fights
Some of this twist can be removed simply by walking your line out along the bank and then winding it back onto the spool through a damp cloth, or similar, with nothing attached to the loose end, but it wont get rid of all of the twist
by Penn (see details for list of reels) Fits 23-50S, 23-60, 23-114, 23-116, 23-220, 23-FTH20LW, 23-16S knurled nuts 11/30/2024 This is the spot if you fix Penn reels
I remember at one such hole Dean Norbiato was fishing the 6kg Venom, also a seven-foot model, punching a cast towards a snag on the opposite bank