yea sounds like you spooled your reel wrong. I wouldn't worry about the line too much, as long as it pretty new and its not a generic brand you should be ok. Also it could be too much on your spool. It should be around a 1/8 to 3/16 of an inch off the edge of your spool. take whatever line you have on there now off, get some new line( whatever brand you want, they all work fine) lay the line on the floor, sticker side to you, thread the line threw your pole, etc. my point here is that the new spool of line is adjacent to your rod tip. This method has been working for me a long time with no problems.