Experienced anglers. Do you still backlash?

[scaleface]

I get small ones a lot . Big bird nest , infrequently. I try to stay away from lures that are to light . Heavier lures catch bass and are easier to place . Thats just me .

[Dwight Hottle]

9 minutes ago, gimruis said:

I usually still get one when I over cast, like trying to send it a country mile. Keeping it fluid and smooth, while allowing the rod to do most of the work will prevent a lot of back lash. It’s like a golf swing. When you swing too hard, it doesn’t usually turn out well. Let the club do the work and just make solid contact.

 

That pretty well covers it. 

[Bubba 460]

10 minutes ago, Lead Head said:

YES!

Though I haven't had to cut one out in years, ill still end up with one that needs to be "picked" out nearly every trip (depending on what I'm focusing on).

 

 

 I've had to cut two out in the last two years... I'm still working on them.

[The Maestro]

Rarely. What happens more often is the line will get overlapped and buried when I fish for a while without dumping the spool and repacking it. I try to do it after every 2nd or 3rd spot I've fished but sometimes forget.

[roadwarrior]

1 hour ago, Bubba 460 said:

 

What's a backlash?

 

[TriStateBassin106]

Yup, just last week I had a nasty backlash on my bottom contact setup.. accidentally hit a branch mid cast... took me about 25 minutes to get it out and ended up losing 15% of my line. 

[MN Fisher]

Ya - still have the occasional backlash on reels. Haven't had one the past couple years that I had to cut out, but it's still time consuming to undo it.

[HaydenS]

9 minutes ago, roadwarrior said:

 

Exactly what a backlash is^

[bulldog1935]

no  

Only when I'm lawn casting to intentionally find incipient backlash for setting up casting brakes (back acre is 150' wide).  

 

Only backlash I can remember while fishing was March 2019.  

Had a single-turn line wrap on my rod tip.  

Also had a spare baitcaster to swap in and fished a great morning with a friend visiting the TX coast from AZ.  He caught 25+ in no time - first 5 before I even got me rigged.  

[Mobasser]

Yes, on occasion.

[slonezp]

15 rods on deck, you're allowed 14 backlashes. 

[keagbassr]

Oh yea . Get a few pretty much every time out. I just get too lazy with my casting mechanics especially when i get tired and hot during the summer.

[volzfan59]

I still backlash from time to time. For me, it usually happens when I try to cast a lure that weighs less than a quarter ounce. I don't even try anymore. If it weighs less than 1/4 ounce, I break out the spinning gear.

 

Knock on wood, I don't have too many issues with birds nest on spinning reels.

[desmobob]

I haven't had one bad enough to require cutting the line in years, but I do get one that might take a minute to fix every couple of trips.  Most of the time, it's when I hit the top of the trolling motor with a roll cast or the bait hits a branch, piling, railroad trestle, etc. on a cast.

 

I get the original wind knots (which are better described as "casting knots") when I throw tailing loops with a fly rod and the braided line on my spinning reel get wind knots when I use small braid, no swivel, or cast light lures into the wind.

[Catt]

2 hours ago, Mike L said:

Sure, everyone gets them from time to time. The trick is to minimize them. 
 

But it’s gonna happen. 
 

 

 

 

Mike

 

 

Yeah that's it  ?

 

When I do get the pocket knife out!

[desmobob]

29 minutes ago, bulldog1935 said:

 

 

Only backlash I can remember while fishing was March 2019.  

Had a single-turn line wrap on my rod tip.  

Also had a spare baitcaster to swap in and fished a great morning with a friend visiting the TX coast from AZ.  He caught 25+ in no time - first 5 before I even got me rigged.  

 

 

I keep a spare reel ready to go in the boat and have never used it.  Odds are that if I decide it's not needed there and remove it, I'll get one of those backlashes like you only see in memes.  

 

And I really don't need it in the boat anyway as I usually have around ten outfits in the rod locker.  As Slonezp noted, that would allow me around ten unrecoverable backlashes.  ?

 

I remember a new type of backlash cause from my fishing yesterday:  the line slipped under one of those Fuji hook keepers that's held on to the rod with an O-ring.  It wasn't a bad one, but it was a first of its type for me.

[DINK WHISPERER]

Yup! Seems like I always get them doing everything BUT casting! Last night I got a terrible one by accidentally clicking the spool release while loading up to go home. ?

 

[Ratherbefishing75]

Backlash it’s going to happen it’s just how good you get when you have to deal with it.   I’ve spent a lot of time on u tube learning how to cast a bait caster and how to deal with the backlash   And because of the amount of research on u tube and this website I was able to reduce the amount of times I get a backlash and the ability to deal with 

[Rora]

I have found this really helpful. 
https://youtu.be/LmVljI8Txm0

 

especially the part about forcefully reeling in more spool with your thumb on it. 

[MN Fisher]

9 minutes ago, Rora said:

I have found this really helpful. 
https://youtu.be/LmVljI8Txm0

 

especially the part about forcefully reeling in more spool with your thumb on it. 

Glenn did one too.

 

[Outdoors]

I'm kinda cheating since I'm using an Antares DC 16; but yeah, I still get them. I fish at some ponds with a lot of tall grass.

[papajoe222]

I have one reel that I'll backlash 6-8times an outing and for the life of me, I can't figure out why.  I'll normally get a couple every outing, but that reel and I just don't coexists.  I like to keep my spool tension looser than most guys and those times I attempt to get a few extra yards from a cast, my thumb is tested, sometimes past its limits.

[WRB]

FC line dries in hot air and tends to over run (loose line on the spool), line conditioner helps to keep it wet.

Backlash is a term for a birds nets with several yards of line loops tangled. Casting into the wind with wind resistant lures for distance....every body occasionally blow up a reel. Hit something behind you during the cast blows up the reel regardless how good you think you are.

My bait casting reels are set with little spool controls to maximize casting distance and $@it happens occasionally, usually loose line over runs that need to pull out a few yard of line to retighten before retrieving the lure.

Only way to prevent backlashes or over runs is increase spool tension controls and lose distance.

Tom

[bulldog1935]

1 hour ago, desmobob said:

I keep a spare reel ready to go in the boat and have never used it.  Odds are that if I decide it's not needed there and remove it, I'll get one of those backlashes like you only see in memes.  

 

And I really don't need it in the boat anyway as I usually have around ten outfits in the rod locker.  As Slonezp noted, that would allow me around ten unrecoverable backlashes.  ?

 

I remember a new type of backlash cause from my fishing yesterday:  the line slipped under one of those Fuji hook keepers that's held on to the rod with an O-ring.  It wasn't a bad one, but it was a first of its type for me.

btw, you know my fishing guest in the Little Cut photo - that's Mark, ablecane on FFR.  

He and his wife were staying at North Padre Is for a month, and I planned a paddle for us and outfitted him with a boat.  It was a killer 3 days with W-wind adding even more water movement than the tide alone.  

[FishTank]

I still get one from time to time but I like to think I can set up of the right bait with the right reel and rod, then take the time to understand the conditions around me and let me thumb do the rest.