How do you remove twist from a fly line? In the owner’s manual of the line it says to cast down stream and let the currant untwist the line but I didn’t notice till I got home! Is there any other way of getting rid of the twists in my fly line???
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Mike,
How do you remove twist from a fly line? In the owner’s manual of the line it says to cast down stream and let the currant untwist the line but I didn’t notice till I got home! Is there any other way of getting rid of the twists in my fly line???
Climb into a tall tree and let out the line? 
More seriously, though, the twisting comes from somewhere. It is better to avoid it from developing. Keep an eye on your casting stroke, and also on tippet twisting flies.
Cheers,
Hans W
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Hans…in the manual it says it comes from not casting all the line that you peel off the reel. And yes I did that becuase I was making a lot of different sized casts.
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Mike,
Hans…in the manual it says it comes from not casting all the line that you peel off the reel.
Duh… color me puzzled. I am having a hard time visualizing how this would manage to introduce line twist…
Hans W
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“Twist is caused by not casting all the line you have pulled out from the reel and is common to all lines. Every time you cast, and don’t clear all the line, you have added some twist at the reel.”
That is straight from the Rio Manual…
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So is there any way to get rid of the twist if you don’t have a river near by?
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Mike,with one end of the line attached to the spool, and the casting/drifting not responsible for the twist, I still have a hard time understanding how line twist can develop in the slack near the reel 
Ah well…
Cheers,
Hans W
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I don’t really know how it got there I just wanna get rid of it!!!
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Could we be talking memory coils and not twist?
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Ducksterman
First time I used this line and I have it in a 6wt and it never happened…it is really twist…
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It looks like a twisted up leader…I have made some advances in taking out the twists…I stripped off all the line and winded it onto the spool by hand and that seemed to work some of the twists forward and off…maybe if I do that a few more times it will fix it…
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Here’s what I do when I notice twisting in my line. Pick a good sized room (or two) that will not have foot traffic. Pull off ALL the fly line as you walk around the space you have to work. Lay it loosely, not piled up.
Take a wet terry cloth face towel, and starting at the reel end, pull all the line through the towel, maintaining moderate pressure on the line. When you get to the leader end, you’ll see a lot of the twists have been worked out. The leader will be wanting to twist in the opposite direction. I sometimes repeat this procedure up to four times. Always working from the reel end. Follow up with line dressing, and all is clean and twist free.
Jim
JC…check your e-mail…
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That is how I clean my line…I go through and do that…I did that 4 or 5 times last night when I cam home…
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Get it???
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JC…I didn’t put on the line…
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I tried what NoWindKnots suggested and it didn’t do much…HELP! Is there any way to fix this?
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Get rid of it. Stop the bleeding. Just go get a quality line and end the suffering. I have never ever even seen line twist in my fly lines. (use it to practice knot tying)
Jim
Unwind and rewind as described above is the best way to get rid of it. The real question is why did it get there i the first place.
I, like Hans am puzzled by the pulling line out and not casting it. I don’t see how that matters.
There are two reasons that I think primarily cause this.m One is your casting stroke having a circular motion, not just back and forth. This can cause some twisting. I thin the other reason is the fly. If a fly is not evenly tied as it passes through the air at high speed the fly wings will turn the fly, just like wind passing through a fan that is not turned on will rotate the blades. So I suggest making sure your casting stroke is in a single plane and try changing your fly.
jed