Hand Pain

[Toallhisdoom]

Trying to figure out why this is happening.

 

When I fish with my st croix triumph M with pflueger president reel I have no pain.

 

When I fish with my fenwick elite tech bass MH with Pflueger supreme reel I get pain in the fingers that the reel handle is in between, (Middle and ring)

 

The Fenwick does have a split handle. Maybe its just the way the Fenwick holds the reel and it just dose not mesh with my hand? Really like the rod otherwise. But can't fish for more then about half hour without pain. 

 

Any ideas for solutions? Maybe some styrofoam around the reel handle? Ugh. Maybe just get a new rod? haha I am thinking st croix avid.

 

Worried it might be because of the split handle tho. Or maybe just the fenwick. No idea. 

[Bruce424]

For me the pain comes depending how I grip the reel. If I palm the reel for a really long time. Jig or Texas rig fishing hurts after a while. Fishing cranks or spinnerbaits don't hurt that much cause I grip the handle of the rod mostly. If the rod is really off balance that puts pressure on wrist and fingers. At least for me for long periods of time.

[Toallhisdoom]

Hmm. Maybe I should just get my avid and keep the fenwick for something other then snekos? lol

[a1712]

Spinning reel? Trigger Happy Comfort Grips, I won't use a spinning reel without them. Brian.

[Toallhisdoom]

That was exactly what I was thinking about making! I was going to just find a soft rubber hose and make something, but for $6 why not?? haha

 

Thanks! Hopefully this will fix it! 

[greentrout]

As an aside, if you make a lot of casts regardless of gear, you can develop trigger finger and/or trigger thumb. Trip to the Doc will help. 

 

Old school basser...

[papajoe222]

I recently had surgery to correct trigger thumb and carpal tunnel syndrome. If I don't stretch my wrist and forearm occasionally while fishing, the pain will momentarily return. My guess is you recently started feeling the discomfort. You can ignore it, sell the Fenwick, or see a Dr. before it gets worse and you end up needing surgery and missing out on 8-10 weeks of fishing.

[WRB]

Move your hand foreward one finger. You shouldn't be gripping the rod tightly, just enough pressure to control the rod...loosen up your grip and balance the rod-reel.

Tom

[Matthew2000]

I had to have trigger them surgery when I was like 7. It sucks, do as much as you can to avoid it. Stretch by placing both hands firmly toghether in a Asian bow type style and go as far down keeping hands and fingers toghether. Helps me quite a bit.

[LuckyGia]

I punched a solid barracks door in 1977 with all my might.

Of course the Army said it looks fine

My hand hurts to even shake someones hand to this day.

But I fish until there are tears in my eyes.

Usually I can handle the hand pain because my back is sooo bad, that I forget about my hand.

The absolute longest I can fish is 4 hours.

It has taken 2 years to get to 4 hours of handling the pain.

I just keep telling myself " it could be worse ".

Had 2 discs removed in my lower back and it is now fused with rods.

Have 2 more that need to be fused.

Want to trade places ?

[smalljaw67]

I'm assuming you are talking about spinning rods? If you are talking spinning rods and reels I'll tell you what is happening, well at least what I believe is happening. The Triumph is a medium power, the Elite Tech is medium heavy and you are using 2 different reels, if your set up are correct you would have a smaller president and a larger supreme being you are using different powers. If that is correct then switch the reels, try the president on the Fenwick and the Supreme on the Croix and see if that changes anything. You don't list the rod lengths and that can be very important in determining the reason but based on the vague info you provided, I'm guessing the medium heavy set up has a larger reel and you are holding it tighter putting pressure between those fingers. If that is the case it may be the reels so switch the reels out and see what happens. I had the same problem with casting rods, everyone loves the Fuji ECS reel seats, I hated them because when I would be throwing spinnerbaits all day or jerkbaits, the trigger on the reel seat is a bit longer and wider and it is only like 1/16" wider than a Forecast reel seat but that little extra in width was the difference between a good pain free day compared with swollen hand and fingers with a lot of pain. One reason I believe the reel may be your problem is the Fenwick Elite Tech spinning reel seats are the most comfortable I ever used hands down, when I got my first elite tech smallmouth spinning rod I couldn't put it down, I prefer casting but for a solid month I was doing nothing but finesse techniques so I could use the rod, it just felt so good to hold.

[Cgrinder]

Yeah, maybe see a doctor. I had occasional pain while fishing that ended up being the first signs of a couple pinched nerves. Turns out I've lost a lot of muscle strength in my rod arm; no wonder the fish were gettin away!

[new2BC4bass]

You could sell the Fenwick to me.  Problem solved. 

[Toallhisdoom]

You could sell the Fenwick to me. Problem solved.

It is listed in the for sale section. $130 used twice.

[EvanT123]

Could be different the diameters of the grip.

[smalljaw67]

It is listed in the for sale section. $130 used twice.

 

I was looking at it but it is a 2 piece and it is MH, my spinning rod powers go from ultra light to medium, after that I go with casting rods, no use for MH spinning. I think the 2 piece is going to make that a tough sell, not a big market as most prefer 1 piece, good luck.