[Gerry Zagorski]

Good advice above... If you are not using braided line I suggest you do that as well if the boat allows it, some don't. It will allow you to hold bottom with less weight and is super sensitive so strikes are much easier to feel.

You don't need to respool the entire reel, just add a 50 yard top shot on top of the mono using a uni to unit knot and the do the same at the end to tie it into your mono bucktail rig.