yep, you gotta loosen em or they stop working smoothly and can hang up sometimes when a fish makes a quick run on you.
its especially important for lower end reels that can lose the springiness and your drag adjustment gets narrowed so if you are a light tackle fisherman it can make some reels to where you have to leave the drag looser then you like or it can cause the drag to not release in a sudden hard pull on the line
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