honest conversation here. fishing rod slipping from your hand, midcast.

[Darth-Baiter]

has this ever happened to you?  i would have guffawed, belly laughed at my friend..but this has happened to me.  my hands were tired, wet, i was looking for a bomb cast at a distant target... swing, pfffttt, twoink!..splash.  my rod hits the water.  my friend saw me do it, so he put his Trolling motor in reverse and reached down, red-faced and came up with excuses.

 

my friend did it this weekend.  he flung an A-Rig, backlashed, and the forward inertia plucked his cherished combo out of his baby soft hands and into the Delta.  haha.  i didnt laugh.  i really didnt.

 

admittedly, most of my cast are not swinging for the fence, i dont forsee it happening ever again..but never say never.  i do hope it happens in the summer.  

[AlabamaSpothunter]

I'd be jumping in .3 seconds right behind that rod ?

 

I take losing tackle like a baby losing a passy 

[flyfisher]

Never happened to me, guess my grip is good enough to hold if there is an issue.  If it was my friend i would have been cracking up laughing as I helped them try to retrieve it.

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Real men use Pine Tar, just don't go past the handle section or it's cheating ?

[ScottW]

Can’t say anything about this without incriminating myself ? but it was funny if someone was watching. No witnesses thankfully 

[GaryH]

Never happen to me, but my friends father just got a new fishing chair as a present. So we took him to a quarry to go fishing. He gets his chair all setup around 2 or 3 feet out in the water and cuts loose with his first cast. Well the front legs of the chair must have been sitting on the edge of a big boulder because the chairs front shot straight down along with him. The fishing rod went flying along with his glasses. He comes out of the water spewing a choirs of cuss words. We’re trying not to laugh when his son asks him where’s his teeth. His upper dentures somehow flew out of his mouth into the water with everything else. I laughed so hard along with his son I thought he was going to kill us.

[Darth-Baiter]

6 minutes ago, GaryH said:

Never happen to me, but my friends father just got a new fishing chair as a present. So we took him to a quarry to go fishing. He gets his chair all setup around 2 or 3 feet out in the water and cuts loose with his first cast. Well the front legs of the chair must have been sitting on the edge of a big boulder because the chairs front shot straight down along with him. The fishing rod went flying along with his glasses. He comes out of the water spewing a choirs of cuss words. We’re trying not to laugh when his son asks him where’s his teeth. His upper dentures somehow flew out of his mouth into the water with everything else. I laughed so hard along with his son I thought he was going to kill us.

i would have peed myself.  this is a fantastic story.

[GaryH]

Just now, Darth-Baiter said:

i would have peed myself.  this is a fantastic story.

It happen years ago and  his dad has since passed. But there’s seldom a time goes by that the subject doesn’t come up and we still crack up.

[casts_by_fly]

it happens to me about once a year.  Wet hands, not paying attention, hard sidearm cast with one hand and always something that messes up the flow.  Either an imbedded line wrap on the spool, catching the side of the boat, or something like that.  I normally have a second hand on the butt of the rod anyway, but there's always that one time...  I've not lost a rig yet though.

[Susky River Rat]

I haven’t had one fly out of my hands mid cast. I have just dropped one while fishing. No clue how or why but I did .

[Bluebasser86]

Hasn't happened to me but I remember a BASS tournament several years ago when a fish just straight ripped a rod out of I believe it was Chris Lane's hands during the fight? Seems like it was mid summer and an Alabama river spotted bass that was the culprit. It was pretty wild how fast it happened. 

[GRiver]

Yes I have, went to do one of my loop around cast… for more momentum you know. Anyway , lure snag front bow light, just as I swung for world record long distance cast.

Reel birds nest, you know the sound BRRRRHIPTTTTT!!!
reel stops mid swing, comes out my hands and I do the juggling act for a bit with the rod and reel. I lose all contact and the rig, it drops, hits the gunnel and bounces, lands on the deck and in the boat. 
Wheww! Thought I was going swimming. 

[TnRiver46]

I’ve never flung one in but I’ve flung the top half of a two piece rod into the water dozens of times. It’s always hilarious when you are sneaking up a trout stream trying to be super stealthy and your top half splashes down like a refrigerator hitting the water 

[WRB]

It happens more often off shore tuna-marlin fishing using straight handle rods with  no trigger and big heavy reels after baiting slippery live bait like mackerel and casting to feeding fish. I haven’t don, came close but watch it happen.

Fresh water haven’t witnessed that.

Tom

[T-Billy]

Never casting, but I've had a few close calls setting the hook. 

[Str8BraidPowa]

A few times a winter a buddy and my self like to fish with live minnows for Bowfin, pickeral, and catfish. We were have a one of the better days, catching some nice fish. We were anchored up and my buddy had to pee so he was standing up by the trolling motor doing so. One of his rods started getting a small hit. I yelled at him "your rod, your rod!" He makes a not family friendly comment, to which I reply "your fishing rod!" Then all of a sudden his rod takes flight and is gone! We just starred at each other puzzled, like we had no idea there were fish in this lake that could do that. He was kinda heart broken, he lost an old ugly stick with a flueger presidential he had since we were in high school.

[GreenPig]

I've come close a few times to dropping a combo. Usally happens after throwing big swimbaits for a bit and I swap to a lightweight combo.

[Woody B]

I did once last winter throwing a DT16.   My hands were cold.  It was my first cast on a 22 degree morning.  I was at a location where the creek channel runs right up near the bank.  The curve is lined with stumps on the side away from the bank.  I had caught several the week before running a deep crank along the stump line channel.  I was making a long distance bomb cast and it just got away from me.  Luckly the DT 16 just sat there on the surface.  The knot securing the line to the reel was strong enough.  I just pull all the line back into the boat with my rod/reel.   I laughed pretty hard afterwards.   

 

I threw a rod in the water after unhooking a bass once also.   I unhooked the bass and just kinda threw the texas rig down.  I guess the reel was either at the edge, or hanging off.  When I tossed the lure it pulled it all into the water.  The water was only 4 feet deep.  I jumped in and got the rod/reel.  

[Darth-Baiter]

2 hours ago, T-Billy said:

Never casting, but I've had a few close calls setting the hook. 

just this past season, i was punching.  i felt the hard grab of a bass, and set the hook like it stole my wife.  HARD.  i lost my footing on my kayak and slipped forward.  the only way to save myself and not go overboard was to kick my only stable foot into the air.  my body went 100% horizontal and i just landed on the deck of my kayak.  my pedal drive almost...well.  if need-be..i'll draw you a sketch.  it was close!! 

 

i landed mostly on my seat and the open floor space.  my friend without missing a beat, goes.."just what are you trying to accomplish?".    then he laughed at me all day.  

 

same dude that threw his rod into the water like a first time batter throws a bat.  hahah.

[steve carpenter]

I was just a kid and my Dad borrowed his father-in-law's rod and reel.  Fishing with cut bait for stripers and the hands were slippery and there it went into the river. Also saw him drop a bowling ball and catch a trout with a fly rod on the backcast. Loved going out with him, but a angler he was not.

[Way north bass guy]

Years ago I was jigging for lake trout right after ice out on a cold morning. Set the hook and my spinning rod slipped out of my hands, and started the 75’ vertical drop to bottom. Luckily I had a big heavy spoon rigged on another rod on the deck, grabbed it and free spooled the spoon to bottom and managed to hook the lost rod in only about 2 min from 75’ down. Still have that rod, and use it often in the summer for smallmouth. 

[Log Catcher]

I had this happen to me this past year. Had been fishing for quite a while and caught a few small ones. I was using a crankbait rod at the time. I made a cast and for some reason the reel locked up as best I could tell and the sudden pull of the crankbait sent my setup in to the lake. I didn't have a backlash and the crankbait didn't hit anything in mid cast. The crankbait floated back up and I got it and pulled my setup back into the boat. That reel has now been retired and will be replaced.

[garroyo130]

I've had a 2 piece come apart when surf fishing ... more than once, sadly. Both times just reeled the top half back in.

[DitchPanda]

Just had an ice rod fly out of my hand last week on a hookset...to be fair it was 20 outside and my hands were wet so I couldn't feel them. One of the crappiest deals I've had happen was last summer I get a bite on a swim jig like 5 ft from shore...I swung and the jig flew up and smashed into the blank. Snapped it right in half. 

[Bird]

Years ago while fishing with my brother, I threw a rod and reel into the water after loosing a good fish......he still laughs about it.

 

I'm a 2-handed caster and prefer longer rods behind the reel seat so slipping hasn't been an issue....... purposely throwing? Yes