Went out to target some carp today and my reel went for a dunk. I’m wondering if I should add some grease or something to it. I rinced it down when I got home to remove any dirt particles etc.
Any specific grease I should be getting for it?
Many thanks!
Shane
Hopefully, someone will give you a recommendation on what lubrication product to use, but, please make sure to not use too much lubrication. Too much grease or oil will hold sand and dirt once it comes in contact with it. You need to use lubrication very lightly. Too much and it becomes tacky and that is not good.
All of our reels take a dunk! Since you’re talking freshwater, just use plain water to wash out any possible dirt. Other than an annual cleaning and greasing you should not need to re-grease the reel.
Deezel
If you can pop the spool off, do that and let it dry out overnight. Better safe than sorry. I pop the spools on all of my reels after rinsing them off to let them dry. I never used to until I had to make new pawl springs for 2 reels that rusted out. Haven’t had that problem since.
OD,
You’ll get a lot of opinions on this one. Rinsing and drying was a good start. When you do grease/oil the reel, do as you were already told and do us it sparingly for the reasons stated. The rule I’ve read and stick to is this: Grease the gears, oil the rest. That’s a broad statement, but to help you get the picture, it’s the heavy metal to metal contact is where you want light grease. I use a generic reel grease. I’ve heard good things about “Quantum Hot Sauce”. It’s a red grease and is supposed to work great. For oil I have a variety of 'em. Lately I’ve been using a good quality gun oil. Today I bought a tube of “Penn Reel Lube” that I will try next. Also for a general spray and wipe to protect against corrosion and lube I use Boeshield spray. It’s an expensive product, but works really good. I’ve used it on my fishing gear and other tools and have been quite pleased with the results.
Hope this helps.
Tom.
Mine takes a drink everytime I fish. It’s meant to get wet.
You should check with the reel manufacturer. In all seriousness, I went to the Ross website to find out lubrication points on my reel and was surprised that they specifically said not to lube my reel. As a matter of fact they said that lubricating the reel might damage the drag system. It was permanently lubricated and no other lub was required.
If you dunked it in the salt, that might be something different. Some reels do recomend lubricating but again, check with the manufacturer.
Clay beat me to it. My Ross reel’s instructions was very clear the reel should not be lubricated, only rinsed in clean water.
Jeff
Thanks for all the suggestions and input. I was worried about the reel since it was making a bit of noise. But once I rinced it out and let it dry it fixed the problem. Probably just had some dirt in it.
Thanks again!
Shane
Yeah … a good rinse in clean water for openers. And don’t forget to dry out the line and apply some line dressing, too.
I’ve got some (old) reels that have lasted me for years and years. The lubricating business is big business; and you can buy some fancy labeled lube with all kinds of extravagant claims and principally will do the same as the others … lubricate the moving parts. Since I take care of my reels after use, before I put them away after use, I’ll give those moving parts a very light coating of Vaseline … i.e., petroleum jelly. It is a fine reel lubricant and reasonably priced. I do believe it’s the base in most of reel lubricants anyway, you know, those with the fancy label and very high costs.
Dale
