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Originally Posted by Paul G
Also - its good to fill the spool properly with backing (and flyline) so that you don't have very tight coils of flyline around the spindle. Its much harder to get rid of the coil "memory" if the diameter of the coils are smaller. The best way to do this is in reverse! You start off by winding on all the fly line, then attach your backing and wind it on until the spool is full to within a couple of mm. Then you strip the lot off and wind the backing on, followed by the flyline. Slightly labourious, but the only way to truly get it right.
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With spare spools being quite common, if you have a second one free it speeds things up quite a bit. Just use one spool to tie on fly line first, then backing and get the length right. Then just tie the backing onto the second spool and wind on to it directly from the first.