What the h**l 2025
Bass_Fishing_Socal reply :
I considered myself not so newbie with casting reel. I have been casting abu 6500 c3 with no brake on, newell and many others.
Today went out for a quick, really quick fishing at the city park lake and come back home with this.
Stupid to cast my plopper hit and stuck on the tree above me. Pull the lure out of the tree branch, broke the line, drop into water about 10-15ft from me. The backlash is so huge and messy, I didnt even think will have time to finish untangle before my lure float away, so I reeled all the line in to tie on another lure to retrieve that expensive plopper back. All it took was just an hour but ruin my morning.??
Tim Kelly reply :
We've all been there.
QUAKEnSHAKE reply :
If it was braid most likely could have saved it 
d-camarena reply :
I use braid. Ive never had to cut a backlash
fishnkamp reply :
According to Bill Dance ' You might want to trade that one in!!"
Bass_Fishing_Socal reply :
And after
I think I lost more than 30yds out of this. Really stupid me.
@d-camarena and yes I was trying to untangle that while you texting me with your reel.
pawpaw reply :
Soooooo did you get the plopper back? Or not?
Bass_Fishing_Socal reply :
On 10/24/2016 at 2:54 AM, fishnkamp said:According to Bill Dance ' You might want to trade that one in!!"
All just throw away. Anyone want my 50e??
pawpaw reply :
On 10/24/2016 at 3:00 AM, JustJames said:All just throw away. Anyone want my 50e??
Will you put new line on it first?
Bass_Fishing_Socal reply :
On 10/24/2016 at 2:59 AM, pawpaw said:Soooooo did you get the plopper back? Or not?
Fortunately yes. I didnt have any topwater with me so I used crankbait to hit the plopper back close enough for my rod lenght.
d-camarena reply :
On 10/24/2016 at 2:57 AM, JustJames said:And after
I think I lost more than 30yds out of this. Really stupid me.
@d-camarena and yes I was trying to untangle that while you texting me with your reel.
Sucks man, hope next time out you have a better day. Last week i went fishing and i got to the spot and i broke my rod taking out of the truck. That was a bad morning
Gundog reply :
On 10/24/2016 at 3:02 AM, pawpaw said:Will you put new line on it first?
Good one. Kick a man when he's down. 
pawpaw reply :
On 10/24/2016 at 3:05 AM, JustJames said:Fortunately yes. I didnt have any topwater with me so I used crankbait to hit the plopper back close enough for my rod lenght.
Great, so about putting new line on my new reel? Think that's gonna happen or not. Any chance you'd throw that plopper in the deal too?
Bass_Fishing_Socal reply :
It is really suck, It was a beautiful day today in Cali, cloudy overcast all morning and now start to rain. I was hoping toowater action which I have not done so successfully with whoppler plopper.
Gundog reply :
On 10/24/2016 at 3:09 AM, pawpaw said:Great, so about putting new line on my new reel? Think that's gonna happen or not. Any chance you'd throw that plopper in the deal too?
Bass_Fishing_Socal reply :
On 10/24/2016 at 3:09 AM, pawpaw said:Great, so about putting new line on my new reel? Think that's gonna happen or not. Any chance you'd throw that plopper in the deal too?
Wait for the next time, but Ill have you go retrieve the lure and untangle the reel yourself.?
pawpaw reply :
On 10/24/2016 at 3:11 AM, Gundog said:
Well, it never hurts to ask, right?
Gundog reply :
On 10/24/2016 at 3:13 AM, pawpaw said:Well, it never hurts to ask, right?
I can't argue with ya on that one.
pawpaw reply :
On 10/24/2016 at 3:13 AM, JustJames said:Wait for the next time, but Ill have you go retrieve the lure and untangle the reel yourself.?
Never mind then. I don't know if I could have untangled that one. I probably would have traded that one in.
Gundog reply :
On 10/24/2016 at 3:15 AM, pawpaw said:Never mind then. I don't know if I could have untangled that one. I probably would have traded that one in.
Maybe if you got JustJames to agree to untangle any future backlashes and maybe throw in a rod just for good measure. Postage paid of course.
pawpaw reply :
On 10/24/2016 at 3:17 AM, Gundog said:Maybe if you got JustJames to agree to untangle any future backlashes and maybe throw in a rod just for good measure. Postage paid of course.
That sounds more than fair to me!
Bass_Fishing_Socal reply :
I think Im the expert now.
untangle backlash of course.lol?
pawpaw reply :
On 10/24/2016 at 3:21 AM, JustJames said:I think Im the expert now.
untangle backlash of course.lol?
I don't know why but I have a feeling that some time in the future you'll more than likely get a chance to brush up on your backlash untangling/cutting out skills again.
new2BC4bass reply :
Hmmmmm. Looks familiar. Last time I caught the weeds behind me I had to cut line out too. What did you have on the reel?.....20# fluorocarbon? Looks like wire cutters were needed. 
Raul reply :
On 10/24/2016 at 2:31 AM, JustJames said:I considered myself not so newbie with casting reel. I have been casting abu 6500 c3 with no brake on, newell and many others.
Today went out for a quick, really quick fishing at the city park lake and come back home with this.
Stupid to cast my plopper hit and stuck on the tree above me. Pull the lure out of the tree branch, broke the line, drop into water about 10-15ft from me. The backlash is so huge and messy, I didnt even think will have time to finish untangle before my lure float away, so I reeled all the line in to tie on another lure to retrieve that expensive plopper back. All it took was just an hour but ruin my morning.??
Not bad, I've had better ones, those where you have to cut the line all the way down to the spool.
Bass_Fishing_Socal reply :
@pawpaw if it happened again next time Ill leave Geocaching location for you.
@new2BC4bass no worry, it just a cheap #8 hybrid line. I still have a ton maybe I will do a couple more backlashes to entertain you guys again. ?
pawpaw reply :
On 10/24/2016 at 4:04 AM, JustJames said:@pawpaw if it happened again next time Ill leave Geocaching location for you.
@new2BC4bass no worry, it just a cheap #8 hybrid line. I still have a ton maybe I will do a couple more backlashes to entertain you guys again. ?
DEAL!!
On both accounts
Mike Murphy reply :
On 10/24/2016 at 2:54 AM, fishnkamp said:According to Bill Dance ' You might want to trade that one in!!"
Hahaha! That was good. Bill Dance has always been a clown. Sorry to hear about what happened. Today when casting my weight and worm broke off behind me and did what your reel did, only worse. Ended my day. If it makes you feel any better I hear that even pro anglers still backlash to this day (I have'nt got to ask one...maybe one day), cause stuff happens. 
Jeff H reply :
On 10/24/2016 at 4:02 AM, Raul said:Not bad, I've had better ones, those where you have to cut the line all the way down to the spool.
Had one that was mighty close to that a month ago. I thought I'd be able to pick it out when I started on it. Been so long since I've had one that bad that I just didn't know better.
Bankbeater reply :
I had a backlash at least that bad back in August. I was fishing with a t-rigged senko with a 3/8 bullet weight, and the bait got caught in a bush behind me when I was casting out . I could feel the line tangle around my thumb on the cast. I didn't even mess with it. I just put the rig in the car and tied the senko on another rig.
fishballer06 reply :
On 10/24/2016 at 3:00 AM, JustJames said:All just throw away. Anyone want my 50e??
J Francho reply :
I have the t-shirt! 
kickerfish1 reply :
Looks like you gave George Washington a haircut.
NEBasser101 reply :
every baitcast user has been there
SJex reply :
I always bring a second spare reel in event this happens. Less downtime, just swap reels and continue fishing.
Bass_Fishing_Socal reply :
On 10/26/2016 at 11:45 PM, SJex said:I always bring a second spare reel in event this happens. Less downtime, just swap reels and continue fishing.
Or just bring another rod? I know a lot of ppl do that so they dont have to re-tie, even my fishing friend, sometime he brings 3 rods with him. I, on the other hand dont like that since I just like to walk around and sometime forget the other one. Im looking into getting a rod holder where I can tie to my leg so it not in the way when fishing.
MassYak85 reply :
I managed to do something about as bad as that with some 20lb sniper. No choice but to cut it it was so bad. I made and underhand cast and the lure just barely caught the water.....
SJex reply :
On 10/27/2016 at 5:33 AM, JustJames said:Or just bring another rod? I know a lot of ppl do that so they dont have to re-tie, even my fishing friend, sometime he brings 3 rods with him. I, on the other hand dont like that since I just like to walk around and sometime forget the other one. Im looking into getting a rod holder where I can tie to my leg so it not in the way when fishing.
I fish from shore so I take 1 or 2 rods with me. I once made a 2 piece out of my Cumara casting rod when I step on it trying to land a fish. Next cast I set the hook on a 6" bass and snapped it in 2. So I cut down on the number of rods I take to the lake. Lesson learned.
Further North reply :
A couple years ago I was up on Lac Seul with some friends. We stopped on an island for a break, and since I'd spotted a pikey looking cove as we were coming in, I grabbed a rod with a Doctor Spoon on it and headed up the shore.
I spotted a nice looking pike cruising the shallows - maybe a 30" fish, cruising the gin-clear water about 40 feet out...so I found a spot that bumped out from shore a bit, thumbed the release, and laser focused on the pike, went to make my cast.
I never noticed that the spoon had snagged a branch at the back of my backcast...
I gave it a nice snappy forward cast...it made that mess you've got up there look like a Sunday picnic.
...and it was braid.
probably coulda dug it out, but I wanted to fish, not spend the next three hours picking at a reel.
I cut it off, re-spooled and was back in action in 10 minutes.
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