Well I stripped the line off completely from the Calcutta 400TE and in doing so noticed something weird. For whatever reason the levelwind and where the line was coming off the spool were the exact opposite. The line would be coming off the spool from the left while the levelwind was all the way to the right and vice versa. Not sure how that happened, Any ideas?

I checked the guides twice with a Q-tip and once with a cotton ball and noticed nothing. Reel looked good too.

About the rod. Using the 711 XH Okuma with the topwaters wouldn't be causing the line breaks though, would it? I know it is not the ideal rod to be using for the Punker or Rover but it does allow me to toss the things a mile and out of the rods I own it seems like the best candidate for those types of lures.

My plan right now is to respool with some fresh line that should be here in a day or two and instead of tossing a more expensive swimbait I'll throw a pencil popper and can hopefully get a hit or two on that so I won't be so damn paranoid about losing another $30 lure.

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Pretending to be a swimbait fisherman since 2001.