Big M area, August 12

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

On 8/14/2022 at 12:56 PM, fishinwrench said:

Anything that floats is more likely to get picked up. (Mono, Braid).  Braid floats like a cork and cuts seals like a hacksaw blade.

There's usually some line around nearly every propshaft that comes in here. 

 I've been doing this long enough to recognize a pattern.....Boats that are trailered will often have bits of line but usually it isn't under the seal.   Boats that are docked will more often have huge balls of line, and more times than not it has sucked up into the seals.   The reason is because docked boats get run in REVERSE more.     Trolling motors always have line behind the prop....but it never cuts the seal.  Why?  No Reverse!  

The changing direction of the propshaft is what sucks the line into the seals.   The average trailered boat (bass boats) only see reverse at the boat ramp 2 short times per day.    Docked boats, especially ski boats/wake boats, get put into reverse alot more, and that causes a backlash of any line that is wrapped around the shaft, and eventually it gets under the seals. 

 

There is SO MUCH line in this lake that I don't feel comfortable diving into it anymore.   Diving in and getting tangled up in line that is connected to a brushpile would really suck.  

Ive been diving in Bull Shoals before in a brush pile spear fishing and have gotten so wrapped up in braid, We always keep shears on us, i literally had to cut my way out

[Smithvillesteve]

Happy Birthday Wrench!! You're a different cat but we love you!! And thanks for all the mechanical help you gave me last year! Have a great day!!

[Fish24/7]

On 8/17/2022 at 4:49 PM, aarchdale@coresleep.com said:

Ive been diving in Bull Shoals before in a brush pile spear fishing and have gotten so wrapped up in braid, We always keep shears on us, i literally had to cut my way out

I was fishing there yesterday and I've been fishing long enough to know when my lure snags in fishing line. I was using 17lb test so I just wrapped it around my hand and slowly pulled up a nest of red cajun line and a small log. Followed that line about 20 yds up to the bank and it's  tied to a couple year old strike king series 6 in citrus shad with one little piece of a rusted out treble hook hung in a different line😄, I cut the crank off and began pulling in this other line now it was maybe 6-8lb blue stren, attached to the end of it was  a homemade inline musky size  spinner 😄. So yeah I pulled about 100'+ of line out of the lake yesterday.  Fishing was really good too with that overcast sky! 

[MOPanfisher]

Some places are worse than others.  Part of the reason I quit fishing below Truman Dam was because of all the heavy catfish line in the water.  Still hit it in other places like Stockton but sometimes I pull up a Smithwick Rogue.  What is the worst is when you can see the line that has snagged you but can't quite get there to it.  Has resulted in more than one boot full of cold cold early April lake water.