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Thumb protector?
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 |
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