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Post by qbert on Feb 10, 2010 0:06:50 GMT -4
I, like everyone else here, hate losing my lures. I was wondering if anyone here has and hometown secrets for getting snags loose they would like to share. Here are a few of mine:
When you get snagged on something underwater try to stop reeling as soon as possible so as not to set the the snag in too deep. Then flip your bail and grab your string and hold it like you are shooting a gun. Let go of it and occasionally just the backlash alone will release your snag.
If you are hung over a tree limb, reel your line up until you only have about a foot or so hung down from the limb, and try to get it to swing back and forth towards you and away from the limb. as it swings back away from you pull back quickly and the momentum of the lure will usually carry it clear over the limb.
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Post by guitarguy on Feb 10, 2010 2:40:24 GMT -4
I stop reeling when I'm sure it's not a fish. Then I try and "wiggle" it out, since I fish a river and it's usually a rock.
I invested in a Frabill lure retriever a couple years back after loosing a $20 bucktail on a stump and it's saved me a number of lures since.
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Post by muskiehunter on Feb 28, 2010 2:44:46 GMT -4
I, like everyone else here, hate losing my lures. I was wondering if anyone here has and hometown secrets for getting snags loose they would like to share. Here are a few of mine: When you get snagged on something underwater try to stop reeling as soon as possible so as not to set the the snag in too deep. Then flip your bail and grab your string and hold it like you are shooting a gun. Let go of it and occasionally just the backlash alone will release your snag. I use that one as well and it works really well.But if all else fails I just go in after it   With my son I have to bring a chainsaw with me.I don't know how in the hell he does it but he always manages to get his lure stuck way up in the tree.  Its a good thing I don't live in California with the Redwood trees because I know he would get it stuck in the top of those buggers.  |
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Post by wlb on Mar 1, 2010 14:31:06 GMT -4
A bad habit I have is to wind down till the lure is right at the rod tip then push the lure out with the rod. It usually works great, but it's really hard on the rod tips. |
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Post by muskiehunter on Mar 1, 2010 16:15:08 GMT -4
A bad habit I have is to wind down till the lure is right at the rod tip then push the lure out with the rod. It usually works great, but it's really hard on the rod tips. I'm guilty of doing this as well.I've been lucky so far as not to break any rod tips.That's what car doors are for   |
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Post by qbert on Mar 2, 2010 1:28:47 GMT -4
I break every rod tip I ever have, but usually not while fishing. My dad broke my first rod in the door of my mom's ford escort years ago, the day we bought it. I've kept up the door destruction ever since. Car door, screen door, garage door. I'll probably break one in the fridge door at some point!! Alot 6'6" rods end up 6'
rods that way!!
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Post by bluefishbuster on Mar 2, 2010 22:09:09 GMT -4
The 2 you mentioned qbert is what I do. But what happens a lot to me is I get snagged right on the branch, limb, or bush. 2 things I do are I tighten the drag and then keep on jerking it and the other is if it's close enough take a large branch and reach out there to grab the hook with the branch you're using.
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Post by qbert on Mar 2, 2010 22:23:13 GMT -4
The old "reach out with a long monster branch you can barely lift trick." Know it well!!! I've actually gotten snagged (using 12lb mono) where my lure got tangled in some braid someone else had snapped off prior to that. I knew my line would snap before the braid, so I got a really long branch, split the end of it a little, and smoked a cigarette. Once my cigarette was almost gone, I wedged it into the end of the branch, stuck it out towards my snag and burnt the braid to free it. Took a few minutes, but I got my damn rapala back!!!
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