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Threw my @!#*! $800 Shimano Japanese Stella in the
woodguru
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Fishing from my guide style 2 seater inflatable pontoon boat with my wife I cast my $800 reel, screw the rod right into the water. What a pisser. This is a Japanese version 14 bearing as opposed to US Stella with 12. The only thing that made me feel somewhat better was that I paid $380 on Ebay from a Japanese distributor in Japan. The arm of the lake we were in is a canyon with straight up rock cliffs, using a depth finder it is 90 to 130 feet deep just 10 to 20 feet from the shore, it's straight down.<br>
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As we watched my pole go down through the crystal clear water neither of us said a word. I was trying to nicely formulate why it was my wife's fault in a diplomatic and joking manner of course. She said "well I'm waiting", I asked "waiting for what?", she said "to hear why it was my fault". I am wise enough to abort the issue of blaming her, it didn't seem like the right moment. I started laughing my * off which started her laughing just as hard. She asked me what was so funny besides laughing to keep from crying, I really started laughing and told her that I was just getting ready to tell her why it was her fault when she said she was waiting to hear why it was her fault and decided it wasn't the right time. We laughed hard all the way back to the spot we launched at. A guy asked what was so funny and I told him I just threw an $800 reel into the water, he looked at us like we were completely insane and said, "that's funny, damn"?<br>
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Here's why it was her fault. The boat has a short guide seat that I always use and a taller front seat that she uses facing front. We switched for reasons that are a whole different story and I went to cast to a spot right where she cast without looking at where I was looking at (see?) I was forced to change to a weird cast mid swing which made me bump my leg with the super sensitive bail ($800 reel) which closed it at the beginning of the cast of a heavy Panther Martin, and it was taken right out of my hands. The rod hit three feet out, went down about two feet where was going to grab it when it started to float butt up like the bouyancy was enough to float the butt up. That was when it reached the point where it was point down and it slid right straight down. The water was so clear it gave a 30 foot view. If that wasn't somewhere around 60% her fault I'm delusional.<br>
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All I can say is that that's a good place to be where you can laugh about it as opposed to shredding your wife on an issue that is your fault and you know it. It's too easy to lash out in anger when you are really very much pissed off at yourself. I have fun with my wife because I don't sweat the dumb * things.
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As we watched my pole go down through the crystal clear water neither of us said a word. I was trying to nicely formulate why it was my wife's fault in a diplomatic and joking manner of course. She said "well I'm waiting", I asked "waiting for what?", she said "to hear why it was my fault". I am wise enough to abort the issue of blaming her, it didn't seem like the right moment. I started laughing my * off which started her laughing just as hard. She asked me what was so funny besides laughing to keep from crying, I really started laughing and told her that I was just getting ready to tell her why it was her fault when she said she was waiting to hear why it was her fault and decided it wasn't the right time. We laughed hard all the way back to the spot we launched at. A guy asked what was so funny and I told him I just threw an $800 reel into the water, he looked at us like we were completely insane and said, "that's funny, damn"?<br>
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Here's why it was her fault. The boat has a short guide seat that I always use and a taller front seat that she uses facing front. We switched for reasons that are a whole different story and I went to cast to a spot right where she cast without looking at where I was looking at (see?) I was forced to change to a weird cast mid swing which made me bump my leg with the super sensitive bail ($800 reel) which closed it at the beginning of the cast of a heavy Panther Martin, and it was taken right out of my hands. The rod hit three feet out, went down about two feet where was going to grab it when it started to float butt up like the bouyancy was enough to float the butt up. That was when it reached the point where it was point down and it slid right straight down. The water was so clear it gave a 30 foot view. If that wasn't somewhere around 60% her fault I'm delusional.<br>
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All I can say is that that's a good place to be where you can laugh about it as opposed to shredding your wife on an issue that is your fault and you know it. It's too easy to lash out in anger when you are really very much pissed off at yourself. I have fun with my wife because I don't sweat the dumb * things.
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My wife is very quick to laugh, makes it easy for me.
While I realize its probably impossible, I would probably go back with a strong magnet and a lot of line.
Beeramid made a great suggestion, grab a huge magnet, there is no real current in that lake, you may actually get lucky.
The way to get that rig back, is to DRAG for it.Go get u a "snatch hook"(weighted treble hook) and drag it across the bottom, in a grid pattern, until u snag it up..
I've done that and it worked for me.
Now go buy a nice Penn Reel!
and fishing still wins. ( sorry about your reel)