"RichZ" wrote in message
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johnval1 wrote:
"Bob La Londe" wrote in message

Forgot one.

7. Include a "stump puller" in your gear.


Great tip Bob. I have been cutting the line and have lost yards of
perfectly good braid in doing so. This tip will save some very costly
line. Thanks.

John
Don't really need a separate item to lose track of in the boat. I just
wrap it around the rod handle a couple times, right behind the reel, point
the rod tip right at the snag, and pull.

That is one way to do it. I am more comfortable with my stump puller when
ripping 65 pound braid out of the fragmata. Most of the experienced anglers
I know around here have a stump puller in the boat, but as one of them is
found of saying, "If what you are doing is working why change."

A similar arguement is that you don't need a balance beam in the boat if you
already have a scale. Well, I have a scale for when I catch a toad fun
fishing or when I am fishing a tournament with a funky pot, like the nearest
fish to two pounds (yes one local tourney has one). However, the balance
beam is way faster and more accurate than a scale. I can easily tell the
difference in weight between two fish of less than a tenth. I won a
tournament last year by right at a tenth of a pound. So while some folks
might say I am cluttering my boat up with a bunch of extra junk, I still
have both a scale and a balance beam in the boat right next to my stump
puller and my pruning shears.

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Bob La Londe
Fishing Arizona & The Colorado River
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