The blackfly in your chardonnay

binka · Jul 8, 2017

We’ve all done it, rigged up a rod and been ready to chuck in and then you notice you’ve missed threading an eye.

Or you’ve just pulled the first loop of line off the ‘pin ready to swing out and run a stick down a swim but only to realise you have a knot in the mainline.

Any others which spring to mind?

mikench · Jul 8, 2017

I had a wasp in my g&t this very evening. If I had the same degree of control with a rod as I do with my right index finger , I would be a formidable angler

I then employed " the executioner" and all wasps and flies met their comeuppance.

I am currently still in the garden !

john step · Jul 8, 2017

Mine as well as the rod ring thing is kicking the maggots over.

tigger · Jul 8, 2017

I've been trotting for a spell and casting has been awkward and the line hasn't been being given very freely from the reel, then i've realised why...i've put line round the rod blank between the guides when threading it up (usually the tip). I've always been happy not to have hooked a decent fish when i've done this!
When i've taken my rod made up and put it together I have often put the sections together and not noticed the line is wrapped round the blanks where the sections join, until, as above I start to wonder why everything isn't operating as it should and examine the rod. I've done it severaltimes recently for some wierd reason.

103841 · Jul 8, 2017

Cutting the excess off a knot, except it wasn't the excess, it was the main line.

mg:

binka · Jul 8, 2017

s63 said:
Cutting the excess off a knot, except it wasn't the excess, it was the main line.mg:

Brilliant, a man after my own heart!

smudger172 · Jul 8, 2017

Setting up on the river today. Not putting the back legs on my chair out properly. Falling backwards and binkering me new rod.

john step · Jul 8, 2017

s63 said:
Cutting the excess off a knot, except it wasn't the excess, it was the main line.mg:

Oh yes, that one too

lambert1 · Jul 8, 2017

This has made me feel so much better as I thought I was the cack handed fisherman, but it would appear that I am not alone. I said hello to two of my former floats last night, that are still hanging from the tree, just out of reach

I too have done the rod ring thing and cut the main line instead of the tag

mg: I have also kicked over and trodden on the maggots. I also specialise in the kick back on the maggapult that ends up with me covered in maggots:wh

mikench · Jul 8, 2017

I lîke this thread as it makes me feel that i am not as inept as I think I am and that there is hope

Thank You!!

Philip · Jul 8, 2017

Yep I have done all the above many a time.

Before push button release spools tackling up and then realizing I had not put the line under the bale arm...which as a kid was made worse as I did not know you could unscrew the spool to take it off. I ended up trying to force the bale arm out of the reel housing to get the line under it rather than tackle up again.

...on the old Woolworths reels you could do that ! ...the bale arm would pop out on one side and you could bend it back in again.

Alan Tyler · Jul 8, 2017

Forgetting I'm under an umbrella when using a throwing stick to feed maggots, and getting most of them down the gap between neck and collar.

Trying to thread line up the bore of tubing which turned out, after I'd wasted ten minutes and finally checked under a magnifier, to be power gum.

tigger · Jul 8, 2017

Alan Tyler said:
Trying to thread line up the bore of tubing which turned out, after I'd wasted ten minutes and finally checked under a magnifier, to be power gum.

LOL at that Alan

mg:.

S-Kippy · Jul 8, 2017

Tucking the tag end of the line back through the loop when tying a blood knot....only to discover on tightening the knot that Ive missed the loop completely !

Or filling the blockend before baiting the hook. I used to be quite good at that !

robtherake · Jul 8, 2017

Realising after a vigorous spodding session that everything line astern now has a sloppy organic stripe down it.

seth49 · Jul 8, 2017

Aye, and make one mistake, and everything seems to go wrong, turns into a right comedy of errors, my mate can always tell from the cursing, that I'm having one of those days.?

maggot_dangler · Jul 9, 2017

s63 said:
Cutting the excess off a knot, except it wasn't the excess, it was the main line.mg:

Yep been there Grrrrrr!:wh

PG ...

jasonbean1 · Jul 9, 2017

Puttingg a marker float the wrong side of the lead, me 8 ft swim became bottomless

mg:

no-one in particular · Jul 9, 2017

More often sea fishing-forgetting to open the bail arm before casting, and watching the weight come back at you at 100 mph or snapping off. See beginners do this often enough but I still do it on occasion.

108831 · Jul 9, 2017

Quite a few years ago now I turned up for a night tench session,trudged all the gear round the lake ,dragged,baited(heavily),cooked myself a meal about an hour before dark when the bailiff turned up and asked to see my book...which i'd left at home,had to pack the lot up and leave,a lifetimes work just to eat alfresco....:wh

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