sagalout
Well-known member
This morning was fishing a sleeper on the bleeper to the point of an island on my right and waggler at about 5m directly in front of me. The beeper goes of and I'm in, luvly jubbly, at the net the mainline snaps above a grippa stop that I use to make sure the flying back lead is at least 2 feet from the main lead. Dash it I thought.
Re-rigged the sleeper rod, cast it out and put it down on bleeper. Picked up the waggler rod and cast it out. With in 15 seconds of the bait settling the float dips, I strike and I'm in to what feels like a carp. Get the fish in the net and it's the one I lost not 10 minutes before with all me tackle hanging out of it's mouth.
Close inspection of the broken line end showed it to be coiled up above the grippa stop so I think it was damaged by the flying back lead. I have seen these ones I use (Preston) damage the line before, it seems to get caught up between the lead and plastic insert gismo. In future I shall just mould some tungsten putty round the grippa stop.
Re-rigged the sleeper rod, cast it out and put it down on bleeper. Picked up the waggler rod and cast it out. With in 15 seconds of the bait settling the float dips, I strike and I'm in to what feels like a carp. Get the fish in the net and it's the one I lost not 10 minutes before with all me tackle hanging out of it's mouth.
Close inspection of the broken line end showed it to be coiled up above the grippa stop so I think it was damaged by the flying back lead. I have seen these ones I use (Preston) damage the line before, it seems to get caught up between the lead and plastic insert gismo. In future I shall just mould some tungsten putty round the grippa stop.