Zing It???

I've found a ritual once a week of throwing the whole thing out, over a limb or as far as I can pitch the bag onto a lawn. Then taking off the bag if its on the ground or let 'er spin over a crotch. It avoids the snarls that take half an hour to work out. Avoids-- still get 'em, though.

Try end-for-ending the TL?
 
Using Fling-It was a huge exercise in frustration for me. I used it every day for 3 months, cuz so many people said it was great and it just had to wear in. But it never did. There are sections that have gone from orange to white, but it still tangles. The factory must have put extra finicky tangle goop on my line.

I use a folding cube to store it, and it helps if I flake it out on the ground, then flake it back into the cube, THEN use it. You can have it.

Dynaglide was so sticky that two 10oz bags together would not drop over the same white oak crouch that one bag with Zing-It would. Fortunately, the store was nice and took it back.
 

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Well, I wonder if it is how it is stored? I used to use a small chalk bag for my throw line storage. I swear, I rarely had a tangle. And I would say 95% of the time. Now I'm probably at 60% of the time with the Faltemier.

The small bag was nice. But, stuffing it was very slow compared to the Faltemier.

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I use the Falhtheimers and really dont have any problems with tangles unless the line is not properly flaked back in. The only time I really get tangles is when someone else flakes it in and drops the bag in the center of the flaked line, and then possibly doesnt snugly fold the Fcube up right away. The line may shift around prior to folding.

My biggest problem with Zing it is when you get a small knot in it. It can be near impossible to untie them.
 
I said to Debbie, rangerdanger wants to know how to keep the tangles out of his throw line... She said, Ha! good luck with that.

By the way we use nylon mason line. It's awful.
 
Best tool in the field for undoing those small knots in the zing-it? My teeth. :-D

Are you guys storing your line with the throwbags on, or off? I always take mine off, and store it in the side pouches of my TL bag. Perhaps that is contributing to some of your frustrations?
 
I'm with topper had my cube for 4-5 months and other than then occasional snag here and there its better on my back not having to bend over.
 
Haven't read the whole thread, this is just what I've learned about Zing-it so far...

When you flake it into a cube or whatever you use to hold it, DON'T MOVE IT until it's folded up and the line can't shake around. It's the moving jostling around that causes most tangles.

If you use a bigshot... just count on a nasty tangle every now and then. It deploys the line so fast that loops snatch other loops rather than just falling out.

Avoid all twigs, leaves and other stuff like that. Zing-it is the ultimate twig magnet.

Don't let throwball roll around in the flaked string in a cube. Pocket the throwballs and keep the ends secured in the cube.

Be neat.
 
"Avoid all twigs, leaves and other stuff like that. Zing-it is the ultimate twig magnet."

Therein lies the problem. Those darn trees with their twigs and leaves LOL!

-Tom
 
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My biggest problem with Zing it is when you get a small knot in it. It can be near impossible to untie them.

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Try a small pointed tool, like an awl.....works better than a carb adjusting screwdriver...
 
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My biggest problem with Zing it is when you get a small knot in it. It can be near impossible to untie them.

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Try a small pointed tool, like an awl.....works better than a carb adjusting screwdriver...

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I have an icepick ground down to about 1" long plus the handle. Pretty handy.
 
Got some new Zing-it today!
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Bye-bye DynaGlide...
 
We use an electical cord wrap thing like the one here http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stor...03+90034+524917

A key is not to pull it out onto twigs, put it on a clean patch off ground or you will have trouble. You have to pull out what you need then put the part that just came off the reel on the bottom of the pile(make sense? I don't know how to describe it). Works great doeasn't take up much room in a tool box, You could put about 600" on a roll I think, we have 300' on each of ours.
 
I bought a spool of the 2.2 mil zing-it today. I'm going to see if I can throw it as accurately as my 3 mil spectra that I'm used to. I know that I can't seem to aim well with the 1.75 mil stuff, plus hate the tangling.
 
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