[header] How to spool a spinning reel [title] Note which way your reel bail turns. [step] Hold your empty reel the way it would be oriented on your fishing rod and turn the handle as you would when retrieving. Note the way the bail turns. 
This is the way the line will be spooled onto the reel; the opposite direction is the way the line will peel off the spool when you cast. [substeps] Spinning reels are designed to hang down from the rod, not rest above it like spincasting and baitcasting reels are.