Here is a story from Jeff Chandler. It looks like he was interviewing a friend, but he did not give a name. Jeff submitted this thru the comment area. This is actually the way I would like people to submit thinks for posting. Comments have to be ok'ed by me and if you say aricle submission along with your article it will help me to determine if it is just a comment or an article.

What Can You Do When Your Not Fishing:
Me: Their are lots of things to do when you are not fishing?
Friend: Absolutely to me the best fishing in Florida is November through May in June, July. August  is so doggone hot around here and there is so much bait in the water it becomes much tougher to catch a fish. The potential for a really strong thunderstorms is much higher. That's the time that I try to put new line on my spools, take the reels apart and grease them. The last thing you want, is to have fishing tackled failure when you ran out on the water. This is probably one of the biggest failings of many fishermen. One of the reasons that many people refer to the term the big one got away, is the lack of maintenance. The smaller fish do not test your tackle so it is the larger ones that will find the weak spots in your fishing gear. Losing a large fish can make or break your day on the water so do your maintenance and take the precautions it will help you to land that big one. The fish of a lifetime could be a 5 pound Grouper or a 10 pound Kingfish, it depends on the individual.

For those people that don't get to spend time on the water every day, you might clean your reels off some, maybe they get rained on, on the your trip home and then they sit in the garage for weeks before you get them back out again. Then what happens you get a good fish on and wonder why your reel blew up or why the line snapped. One of the best things you can do when storing a reel is back your drag all the way off. when you leave it tightened down it will eventually warp the drag and make it a sticky, it won't be as smooth as it should be when you really need it to work correctly. Its like anything on a boat or when you're fishing it's pretty much like everything else in life it will fail when you need it the most because that's when the most stresses is being put on it. I love to sit here in the summer in the air conditioning when it's hot as the dickens outside and tie up grouper rigs, tie up King fish rigs make sure of all my trolling gear, sharp and the hooks, I like to mark the sharp ones with a marker to keep the tips from rusting as well as keeping them organized.
I've got a lot of lures that need new hooks the lure is still in great shape it may have a little love on it  but if the hooks are starting to show some ware and corrosion I replace hooks, backing off the drag and cleaning things out are some of the best precautions a fisherman could take.
Me: How do you handle your fishing line changes? Do you replace all your fishing line or just part of it.
Friend: I think that is an individual choice. I've heard people do it both ways but I take it all off. I don't think it's necessary when you are fishing bottom fishing reels but when you're fishing 30 pound test and the chance to catch a 400 pound Blue Marlin is there, it all fresh line in my opinion.

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