A few tangles, then have the line coming off the bottom of the reel with handels on leftside, put your fingers in between the first guide and second pull a loop of line off ,then punch rod out letting go of line, try to feather line just befor it lands ,then just let current pull line off reel check it with your thumb ,it takes a while to get used to it ,one my mates got rattled at his new pin he threw it it in trent ,and put his fixed spool back on