Re-Tie Often!

[Todd2]

Well it happened.. I was fishing a small lake 10 mins from the house. I don't fish it often because I usually catch dinks and I have a better bigger lake about 30 mins away. But there I was catching dinks. I didn't give much -thought to re-tying. I was almost back to the ramp, completely dark. I pitched the jig over to a drainage pipe, felt a little tap, reeled down and stuck a nice pig. It shot out parallel with the bank, jumped once, and then said bye as my line snapped. I stood there in the silence and my first thought was.. " I haven't re-tied all night". Don't be that guy, lol.

[Mccallister25]

It happens to the best of us. Never a good feeling, thats for sure.

[SirSnookalot]

It happened to me the other day, I was fishing on the jettie and hook about 7 lb snook, as I'm lifting it up, which I've done a 1000 times, I go tumbling backwards hitting the concrete.  Examining my 20# braid I see the line broken which appeared to me not a knot problem, the line must have had an abrasion that I didn't notice.  Luckily I only hit my elbow and palm not my head so I was fine.

[AK-Jax86]

I rarely retie and it hasn't cost me yet. I always forget to check my knot. I have lost a couple swim baits but it usually happens on the cast lol

[MrSwimJig]

I re-tie after every 3 to 4 fish. Maybe too often but I would rather not take a chance. Lost a couple very nice fish by not checking my line and re-tieing and that was enough.

[edfitzvb]

I rarely retie and it hasn't cost me yet. I always forget to check my knot. I have lost a couple swim baits but it usually happens on the cast lol

....And usually when the bait is the ONLY one you have like that and the fish like it. Makes you want to cry.

[AK-Jax86]

....And usually when the bait is the ONLY one you have like that and the fish like it. Makes you want to cry.

Lol you are absolutely right it always seems to happen like that. My girlfriend was using my favorite crank bait, I asked her not too but she didn't care, and she didn't tie it right and it launched off after the 2nd or 3rd cast. She got really upset that she lost my favorite crank, still haven't found it at any tackle shop so far

[pbrussell]

I was fishing a lake the other day known to many locals as the "razor clam special".

You have to constantly be checking your line for abrasion and knicks due to the zebra muscles.

I'd been catching smaller fish for the bulk of the day when I stuck a good smallie. 

The fight was on and when I got the fish toward the boat she made the famous "I don't want in your boat" run.

I'm sure you can guess what happened next. 

 

Made me sick to my stomach and I'm still reliving it as she would've gone well over 3 pounds, and could've been close to 4.

[Felix77]

Had it happen to me in a tournament just a few weeks ago.  Was working topwater (Zara Spook Jr) when I got into what felt like a nice size bass.  SNAP!  There goes my lure and the bass.

 

The kicker is we returned later to that spot just to find my lure floating along with all the line I lost.  Sickening feeling but at least I got my lure back.  LOL

[Brian Needham]

I get hung up too much and really don't have to worry about re-tying, LOL 

[RockstarFM]

I lost the biggest fish of the day yesterday to my line breaking. I caught like 7 or 8 small ones that had left my leader roughed up and never bothered to fix it. Oops.

[Todd2]

Yeah, at least I know there are some big ones in there. Also, I was out testing some repairs to my trolling motor and it worked great. So it wasn't all bad.

[jignfule]

Re-tie often, less with braid more with nan-o-fil

[Hattrick7]

I know the feeling. I remember seeing my line a little kinked but I kept fishing. I kept pulling in calico bass after another. The very last cast of the trip I hooked into a nice fat calico (could have been a nice barracuda).

As I'm letting it fight bam he broke me off very close to my hook I'm pretty sure where it was a little kinked. It coulda been the one that won the boat jackpot.

I still think about that one today!

[Sam]

Todd, on the Rappahannock River in Virginia last year I was fishing in a club tournament when I decided to fish around the ramp as it was getting close to the weigh-in time.

 

Not expecting to add to my bag of fish I picked up the baitcaster with the Senko and just started to pitch and flip it into the shoreline wood.

 

Sure enough, a beautiful two and a half pound size bass grabbed that Senko and headed deep into the wood.

 

Sure enough, the knot failed and he got away.

 

I, like you, remembered that this was the setup that I was not catching anything on and had never retied or checked the line for knicks, scrapes, abrasions, cuts, etc. all day.

 

They heard the scream up to one mile up and down the river.

 

Learned my lesson well and now take the time to retie and check the line during the day and after every two or three fish, depending on the structure I am fishing.

[ReggieT]

Speaking of re-tying...I've been out of the bass fishing game for a while. Something very disturbing is happening to me that NEVER use to happen! I'm losing some high dollars lures because of shoddy knots!

I normally tie a knot that kinda goes like this: 1 loop through the eye, wrap around about 6-7 times and back through the open loop by the eye and wet it and pull tight....any suggestions.

 

Just tossed off a new pretty SPRO FROG after my 3-4 cast!!!!!!