Nasty !

[DonRamos]

I've been there and done that in regards to getting pole floats stuck in your hands.

 

I now carry a heavy duty gardening glove to try and pull on the elastic and free the rigs.

 

At the end of the day though it is probably best just to sacrifice the float and use Rudd's cigarette method.

 

Unfortunately I don't smoke but will try to think up a viable alternative.

 

[ 07. October 2005, 11:16 AM: Message edited by: DonRamos ]

[FearTheHands]

Good job it wasn't a gripper lead!

[Steve Walker]

Rudd; Ow!

 

I learnt my lesson after the first accident with a wire stemmed pole float, but I did something similar when I was a kid; I had one of those spring loaded plastic guns, and thought it was a good idea to embed a needle in the end of the bullet and tie some fishing line to the back of it. I got it stuck in a cardboard box on top of my wardrobe, gave the line a good yank and then found the needle embedded to the bone in my finger. Doh!

[Ken L]

A Toby in the groin was my best effort. Now, I use braid and although I will try to shake a lure free with the rod, if I have to pumm for a break, I clamp my hand over the reel, point the rod at the lure and syep backwards - No big springs anywhere to catapult the lure back at me.