freshly spooled braid.

You need a hug lol....

I fish from the bank all the time....

I'm gonna venture to guess you hit a tree branch or something?

I fish from the bank all the time....

I'm gonna venture to guess you hit a tree branch or something?

Worst thing about bank fishing... I did it to mine with fresh FC on my cranking setup..

I fish from the bank all the time....

I'm gonna venture to guess you hit a tree branch or something?

yep. on a dam thats 300 yards long. ONE tree in the 300 yards.....

I fish almost exclusively from the bank (or from a dock), and there are days when I feel the same way. Just the other day, when fishing from a dock, I wound up to throw a crankbait and, on the back cast, I caught the rail on the oppisite side of the dock. The backlash in your picture looks mild compared to the mess I ended up with. And to top it all off, I broke my favorite Bandit crankbait right in half.

Some days just suck.

Tom

I know the feeling also as I fish from the bank exclusively on a number of different lakes and the shoreline determines if it will be a baitcaster or spinning reel due to a couple of backlashes. If its a rentention pond or something open I will load a baitcast setup and take it along. If the shore has trees or shrubs or even tall grass or weeds I load a couple of spinning setups.

Yea, that's an ugly one. FWIW, it happens to everyone. Hang in there!

Yea, that's an ugly one. FWIW, it happens to everyone. Hang in there!

Yup, and anyone who's using casting gear and tells you "they never do that" IS LYING.

A-Jay

Yup, and anyone who's using casting gear and tells you "they never to that" IS LYING.

A-Jay

I haven't seen one THAT bad in a long while. Need some help?

This might work:

Happened to me the other day in two different spots. Wound up taking an hour and a half to pick through one of the birdnests, after I got home. I pond fish the majority of the time, and have gotten good at avoiding shoreline hangups. Yet it still happens. Usually when I get over confident in my spot and stop paying as much attention to my surrondings.

I thought I was the only one that could find the lone tree limb on a 300yd dam. Wal-Mart has a set of Stanley picks for about $5 that are nice and slick, won't scar your line. Works wonders for picking out a braid bird's nest...be patient though.

Take a machete and chop that limb down.

I haven't seen one THAT bad in a long while. Need some help?

Yes I do, I'm looking for the head of Alfredo Garcia and a clean copy of the Beatles White Album.

A-Jay

I bet if you left if in your backyard, a couple of birds would move in.

We've all been there. As a bank angler, I can definitely relate.

I feel your pain, man. I've done that so many times

I fish from a boat almost exclusively anymore, and still manage to hit something from time to time with similar results.

freshly spooled braid.

You can stop most if this by casting as far as you can in your back yard, now pull out another 10 feet of line, now cut about a 1.5 inch piece of electric tape and put it on the spool, then reel in your line. The backlash we'll never go pass the tape.

Good Luck

Joe

From the bank or a boat it is just part of fishing.

YOU don't suck, bait cast reels suck. I used one for many years while I musky fished, and I don't miss bait cast reels at all.

All a part of learning....try tightening spool tension knob some more till you get use to casting with it.

Classic man. Classic. I was throwing a spinnerbait this spring at a tournament and it was BRUTALLY cold. We were both face down in full ice armor gear, gloves and the works.I was moving as little as possible so I didn't let the rain in, and wasn't looking up at all, really. We had been staying a consistent distance from this weedbed and were running blades through it. I cast once, put the "usual" on the cast and never heard it hit the water. I said to my partner, "We're closer in than we were, aren't we." Looked at my reel and it was shredded. Looked up and the lone tree on this stretch of water was wearing a brand new NorthStar 3/4 ounce bait thirty feet up it's branches. Funniest thing I've done in a LONG time.

Did the same thing the other day - but fortunately with much cheaper Yo-Zuri hybrid. Caught one of the outrigger floats on my canoe on the backcast. Cut off about 30-40 yards of line and was back in action (about the only good reason for having 140 yards of 10lb on the reel!).

I also backlash from the bank - those bushes and trees jump right behind me just as I'm casting...

For me it's b/c only for larger offshore fish using live or cut bait. Any kind of fishing using artificial lures is strictly spinning for me.

I blew up a freshly spool of braid at a pond the other day. The land owner let me use his canoe and I was just drifting down the shoreline, never noticed the treelimb above me . I almost made it worst when I was trying to jerk the bait out of the tree and lost my balance and almost tipped the canoe