Calif Bill
September 23rd, 2003, 03:04 AM
Get "Flex Wrap" and just wrap your thumb.
Bill
"LD" > wrote in message
ink.net...
> Thanks Ray, I'll try these places.
> The one's I've seen have a metal piece, like a conveyor belt splicing end.
> Otherwise I could make one.
> I want one because, modern or not, the Penns #'s 209, 309, 113H and the
> Newell 540 that we use for trolling "near shore" or out to 12-15mi in the
> Gulf are sometimes quickly changed to a bottom fish rig. Sometimes a #9
or
> 209 is quickly changed to a "baitcast" rig. In both of those cases the
> thumb can get HOT trying to prevent a backlash. I started out fishing in
> the early 50's, in Galveston Bay with a Shakespeare Direct Drive on a True
> Temper steel rod where the thumb was (and still is) the only means of
> stopping the reel once the cast was achieved. (Backlashes were not
> uncommon, usually because the pain in the thumb necessitated removing it
> from the spinning spool of braided line).
>
> Thanks Guys, for the input.
> LD
>
>
>
Bill
"LD" > wrote in message
ink.net...
> Thanks Ray, I'll try these places.
> The one's I've seen have a metal piece, like a conveyor belt splicing end.
> Otherwise I could make one.
> I want one because, modern or not, the Penns #'s 209, 309, 113H and the
> Newell 540 that we use for trolling "near shore" or out to 12-15mi in the
> Gulf are sometimes quickly changed to a bottom fish rig. Sometimes a #9
or
> 209 is quickly changed to a "baitcast" rig. In both of those cases the
> thumb can get HOT trying to prevent a backlash. I started out fishing in
> the early 50's, in Galveston Bay with a Shakespeare Direct Drive on a True
> Temper steel rod where the thumb was (and still is) the only means of
> stopping the reel once the cast was achieved. (Backlashes were not
> uncommon, usually because the pain in the thumb necessitated removing it
> from the spinning spool of braided line).
>
> Thanks Guys, for the input.
> LD
>
>
>