What type of braid are you using mate?

try useing 80lb whiplash.I use it and have never had a problem with it

If its any help I dont get them,when I share my gear others do.Would suggest it could be somthing subtle that you are doing?

Cheers Snapazapa, that could be making a bit of sense. Was mixing up how long I was dropping the lure prior to casting last time out owing to other people's position on the boat. Those Owner ST trebles are death on a string waiting to happen, so was playing it cautious a bit when casting. Will put such to practice.

The weight lures I was using were pretty much max for my set up, and was using some light poppers and still stumbling over issue. So don't think that was the issue.

It always happens around my first guide.

Heaps of fish bro, just nothing big, ratz

Yep loose loops are the main problem here, bloody hard to prevent. I have seen it happen with both novice and expert anglers.

What guides are you running on the rod mate? Some reverse the first guide for better casting...

main cause of wind knots is the cast line leaving the rod tip slows down its speed  due to the lure causing drag in the air, the line leaving the reel spool is still rocketing off the reel due to its thin nature and lack of resistence ( it isnt affected by drag like the lure) .its leaving the reel in loops and gets to the point where the lure is no longer dragging the braid off  the spool in small loops at speed its naturally free flowing and the loops get bigger..they will loop over the 1st guide causing a breakage or it will bunch up at the 1st guide and  make a knot before the lure drags the messy knot thru all the rest of the guides.this is a big problem with single foot guides on s/b rods..i spent ages with Kojak trying to fix this problem on my custom rods and production rods..reversing the 1st guide or stripper guide  and using a double foot guide works very well.if going to this amount of effort replacing it with a larger guide is more effective.most production rods use the bare minimum guides  and the smallest they can.this can save lots of $$ over millions of rods,the second main reason i found was bulky knots,casting with the leader on the spool is good for giving it as big heav but the  braid to leader knot going thru the guides slows the  line down ,a slim  neat knot fixed this with s/b fishing and ive found the yucatan is spot on..new braid is also alot more prone to wind knots as its slippery and fly off the spool extremly quickly...loosly packed line is another,after getting busted off applying hand pressure to the retieved braid packing it tight onto the spool is a good idea ...hope this helps

in my opinion make of braid isnt a huge  problem except when brand new ,some braids like suffix pro are very slippery or smooth where as others like tuf line are a bit ruffer.when the braid is used for a while it becomes worn or the coating on it become warn and it settles down in the spool and the problem happens less often

Yeah my first guide is reversed, but it's not all that big. Put what you cats suggested into practice today and no knots.