05-23-2009, 08:57 PM
If you have on a fish big enough to bend your rod that far you probably should be holding the reel almost at your face level then if the line does break you won't get smacked.
On another note you should never have your line break. Your knot should come loose before your line breaks actually. Here's why. DRAG. If you have your drag set properly you will almost never have your line break because any fish big enough to break your line will break the DRAG threshold and your reel will let line peel off until the fish is no longer running with more tension than your line test.
The unwritten rule for drag is simple. Whatever the strength of the line your using, divide it by 4 and that's how much pound of force it should take to get the drag working. So for example if you are using 4 pound mono filament line then you should get a spring scale and attach the end of the line to the hook of the spring scale and pull on the line just enough to where the spring scale reads 1 pound. Then twist the drag knob until the line starts to pull out of the reel right at 1 pound of pressure.
Set your drag properly and you should never have to deal with a rod smack to the face! hehe.
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On another note you should never have your line break. Your knot should come loose before your line breaks actually. Here's why. DRAG. If you have your drag set properly you will almost never have your line break because any fish big enough to break your line will break the DRAG threshold and your reel will let line peel off until the fish is no longer running with more tension than your line test.
The unwritten rule for drag is simple. Whatever the strength of the line your using, divide it by 4 and that's how much pound of force it should take to get the drag working. So for example if you are using 4 pound mono filament line then you should get a spring scale and attach the end of the line to the hook of the spring scale and pull on the line just enough to where the spring scale reads 1 pound. Then twist the drag knob until the line starts to pull out of the reel right at 1 pound of pressure.
Set your drag properly and you should never have to deal with a rod smack to the face! hehe.
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