06-04-2012, 12:37 AM
It probably starts with a trip to Mantua a few days ago. Fishing slow, caught 1 nice Lm + a small one. Packed up to leave, had put my rod on top of the cab. and took off after putting everything away. Got down the road and realized I had left the rod and reel on top. Went back, searching the road and parking lot and found nothing after less then 5 min. of leaving. Being stubborn, thank god, went back along the road once, then a second time and a third, and WOW, there it was on the side of the road in the weeds way down the road. Felt vindicated and lucky.
Ok, I go to the club to catch dinner today and when I go to use the rod and reel, the reel was frozen. :twisted: Couldn't turn the handle hardly at all. Well what a bummer, tried the fly rod but flow was awfully high. When reeling it in, something grabbed my fly and broke it off, Not my day, thru some sticks for the Sparkinator and went home. Took the rod and reel out of the truck to see if a little lubricant might solve my reel problem. Didn't help. Was about to decide that the reel was toast when I happened to notice the spool miss aligned/bent and bent it back and it works just fine now, HALLALUAA!
Looks like I'm good to go again. Lucky. Figure I had run over the reel on one of my trips and bent it. Now it seems to work great. Lucky, dumb guy. :oops:
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Ok, I go to the club to catch dinner today and when I go to use the rod and reel, the reel was frozen. :twisted: Couldn't turn the handle hardly at all. Well what a bummer, tried the fly rod but flow was awfully high. When reeling it in, something grabbed my fly and broke it off, Not my day, thru some sticks for the Sparkinator and went home. Took the rod and reel out of the truck to see if a little lubricant might solve my reel problem. Didn't help. Was about to decide that the reel was toast when I happened to notice the spool miss aligned/bent and bent it back and it works just fine now, HALLALUAA!
Looks like I'm good to go again. Lucky. Figure I had run over the reel on one of my trips and bent it. Now it seems to work great. Lucky, dumb guy. :oops:
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