ORIGINAL: Jack211

Here's what to do (if I can do this without graphics): take a 15 inch piece of very tough thread (fishermen use common sewing thread, but you can get thicker stuff, but common thread WILL work). With your left thumb, press one end of the line on the rod, starting where you want the coil and leaving about three inches of line under your left palm. Make a 2 inch loop running along the rod. holding the "top" ends of the loop under your thumb. Squeeze the bottom of the loop so it is very narrow, making two parallel lines. Then you have a thin loop running along the rod with a three inch tail under your left palm and the other, long tail, hanging down from the thumb. With your right hand, starting at your left thumb, wind the LONG tail tightly over the loop and rod time and again, going from left to right. It will look like a spring wound around the rod. Keep the coils reasonably tight so they secure the loop and don't go over one another. When you get about 1/4 inch of coiling along the rod, you'll still have a loop to the right. Take what's left of the long tail and thread it THROUGH the remainder of the loop.


Jack (believe me, I'll hear you cursing me as you try that coil the first couple of times :-) )