This Is What Happens..

[Champ188]

I noticed Neb didn't make any mention of wanting the reel ... just the rod. LOL

[Quillback]

It has to be the rod you are using that caused this snafu. I'm willing to take it off your hands so that you never repeat this unfortunate incident. 704 or 705 cb? Kindly let me know where I can send the prepaid rod shipping tube to absolve you of any future fishing pain and suffering.

HAHA, yeah it's a 704 cb, dang rod it's all it's fault, it could not have been anything I did.

[Riverwhy]

As Bill Dance would say "The best way to prevent that is to make sure your lure is tied on." I've been there more times than I would like to admit.

[Champ188]

Are you sure Jeb wasn't involved in that? As a former smoker, I used to take a lit cig (when he wasn't looking, of course) and just touch it to my buddy's line right above the knot and then watch his lure go flying the next time he picked up that particular rod. You can accomplish the same thing by cutting halfway thru the line with a pair of clippers.

[Quillback]

Are you sure Jeb wasn't involved in that? As a former smoker, I used to take a lit cig (when he wasn't looking, of course) and just touch it to my buddy's line right above the knot and then watch his lure go flying the next time he picked up that particular rod. You can accomplish the same thing by cutting halfway thru the line with a pair of clippers.

You may have a point there, I was fishing with him the day it happened. Right before I made the fateful cast, I remember him saying "look over there at that babe in the bikini!" I spent 10 minutes scanning the shore where he was pointing, saw no babes, let alone ones wearing bikinis. I thought it was due to my poor eyesight that I didn't see her, but now I'm re-thinking the entire situation.

[Old plug]

My father was not much of a fisherman. But he belonged to a casting club. He really showed me a lot about rod reel and lure matchup. He could do some awful unbelievable trick cast. I learned a lot from him. This was a good 60 yrs ago when there were no free spool reels and all the stuff now. I used to go with him to the horseshoe pit in the locale park to practice cast. We would put our foot against one peg and try to hit the other peg with the casting plug. He could do it a hell of a lot of the time. He educated my thumb and yet today I my reels are loose and very fast. well at least they were. But arthritis and age has forced me to start tightening things up. Quillback noted above it had to be the rod caused that I agree 100%. It looks exactly like someone tried to cast a lighter or bulky lure a good distance with a stiffer rod or in some kind of wind. The force generated by that rod to make a cast was just to much.

[Feathers and Fins]

Are you sure Jeb wasn't involved in that? As a former smoker, I used to take a lit cig (when he wasn't looking, of course) and just touch it to my buddy's line right above the knot and then watch his lure go flying the next time he picked up that particular rod. You can accomplish the same thing by cutting halfway thru the line with a pair of clippers.

Sounds like my favorite stunt to pull on people in the duck blind, When they are out collecting birds Unload their gun and reload it with confetti rounds. Pure Priceless when the next group swings in.

[Sprint21fter]

CRAP HAPPENS!

[abkeenan]

That should pick out

[Greasy B]

That should pick out

Yep, everyday stuff for us mere mortals.