Backlash, how long do you work...

[throttleplate]

spinning reel, if i get a bad wind knot and the wife is close by i let her get it out with her long fingernails. If she isnt by me then i will do10 min and then cut it.

[Hammer 4]

As best that I can recall, never spent more than a few mins. to remove a backlash, unless it was so bad that I had to cut it out, which I believe happened once.

[FrnkNsteen]

Last major one I had was a Daiwa that I had forgotten I had backed the brake all the way off. I run mine real loose and instantly knew I was it trouble when I HEARD it go Ffffffft! As it exploded under my thumb!! ?. I just looked down and said "I'll get that later!! ?? Typically can get them out in a few minutes though.

[12poundbass]

Maybe I have the record. I’m going on about 9 months now! It’s been so long now I don’t remember how I got it but it’s a nasty one. Gave it a good 10 minutes on the lake then grabbed another rod. Got home tried again. Loading the boat up the night before the next trip and so on with no luck. Here we are 9 months later and I’m going to get that SOB eventually! 
 

Usually I just give up and break out the scissors but I’m going to beat this one.

[Darth-Baiter]

10 minutes on the water.  At home - TBD. 

[Bankbeater]

It depends on how I got the backlash.  If it happens when I'm casting the bait out then I can usually get it out in a couple of minutes. If the backlash happens when I hit something behind me, I just put the rod away and cut it out when I get home.

[Catt]

Backlash, how long do you work...

 

Until I get my pocket knife out!

 

I generally don't backlash that bad unless I hit something on the back cast. 

[roadwarrior]

5 hours ago, Catt said:

I generally don't backlash that bad unless I hit something on the back cast. 

 

[dodgeguy]

5 mins.

[The Maestro]

The best way I've found to deal with a really severe backlash that goes deep is to cut the bait off and use something like a toothpick to pull the line out from underneath the overlaps. This can take a long time and quite a bit of patience but it will fix any backlash no matter how bad with no damage to the line.

[PhishLI]

I'll give it 5 minutes if there's hope, but sometimes it's hopeless on the spot. Overhanging branches in my path when I'm casting parallel to a bank are about the only thing that gets me anymore, whether on the back cast or launch.

 

A dental pick is your friend. I keep one in my bag. If I can hook a few loops and rotate them out I can usually make things right. One just like this one came the other night from whipping a Dark Sleeper as hard as I could down a bank while surrounded by trees then clipping a small overhanging branch on the way up. Thwap! Not a chance of getting it out without running the mainline out of multiple loops, and definitely not on the spot in the middle of a Nor'easter.

 

[Log Catcher]

In my other post I forgot to mention if it is bad enough to have to start cutting line out I will do that at home. I normally put new line on if it is that bad.

[newapti5]

A couple of years?  I think I still have a cheap reel with a two-year-old backlash, forgotten in the closet or somewhere.