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| How do you hold your rod/reel? Do you hold it differently for different baits? |
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| Casting/retrieving, rod trigger between middle, ring fingers |
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Location: Racine, Wi | For baits I'm twitch'n I palm the reel (minnowbaits, cranks, and weagles). Everything else, I use the foregrip, especially with heavier, hard pulling baits. My wrists can't take palming that stuff anymore. It's cut down how crappy my wrists feel after a day of chucking big baits now. |
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Location: Greenfield, WI | I hold the foregrip between my index finger and middle finger. To lose my rod my grip I would need to break three fingers!
Growing up, my friends were all rich with the state of the art "boron rods". My rod cost less than one of their line guides!
I held the rod this way and ran the line between my thumb and index finger. I could feel the slightest of bites in this way.
Edited by Steve Van Lieshout 4/19/2010 5:45 PM
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Location: APPLETON, WI | So far, I've been able to palm everything... but ask me later in the season. |
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| Palm the reel...rod trigger between ring finger and pinky |
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| Joel, did it take a long time to feel comfortable learning to switch between grips? I have always palmed the reel but as I get older, I notice I have to stop and stretch out my hand and forearm more often and have been thinking of using the fore grip part of the time. |
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Location: Kronenwetter, WI | Here's a good one...My wife holds foregrip with left hand, but actually places the but end under her RIGHT arm so she doesn't knock her, ummm...left tater...every time she turns the reel handle... |
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Location: Racine, Wi | It didn't take too long, especially when you're throwing big blades and pounders. I would say within a full day of going the foregrip route, you'll be comfortable. I'm glad I did this as my wrist was taking a beating last year. Once I switched, no more problems, and when I threw baits that I palm the reel when using, it was much easier and less painful. |
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| I use the foregrip for all lures. I feel I have the most power for setting the hook and I feel I have more control working baits.
Edited by Baby Mallard 4/19/2010 10:40 PM
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| foregrip for most reels but i palm my revo cuz its more like a bass reel than muskie reel |
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Location: Seymour, WI | Once you switch to the fore grip you will not go back to palming the reel. It's so much easier on your hands and wrists, makes doing figure 8's easier and more powerful hooksets.
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Location: Money, PA | I'm fortunate to be 6'4" with big hands and palm the reel for best control. |
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Location: New Hope MN | I started fishing ski's when i was 9 years old. There was no option for palming the reel back then. I've tried palming recently and it felt weak and uncontrolled. |
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Location: Yahara River Chain | What no option for both palming and fore grip???
I do both and it depends on what I am throwing. |
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Location: New Hope MN | muskie! nut - 4/20/2010 2:38 PM
What no option for both palming and fore grip???
I do both and it depends on what I am throwing.
If you are referring to my post, when i was 9yrs old my hands were too small to palm the reel. That's why it was no option. So i was forced to learn to use the foregrip. |
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| I hold the foregrip when reeling with my right hand, and when reeling with my left I'll sometimes palm the reel and sometimes hold the foregrip depending on the lure I am throwing. I have a lot of problems with tendonitis, and switching to holding the foregrip alleviated probably 90% of it. |
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Location: 31 | Exclusively the fore grip unless I'm bass fishing.
Like many of you I learned to muskie fish holding the foregrip but had real problems with my wrist because the available fore grips were too narrow and short for my dinner plate hands. When I started building my own rods I used the 1 1/2" diameter cork to resolve the problem.
I'm confident I get more hook setting power and better rod control using the fore grip while muskie fishing. |
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Location: Yahara River Chain | dtaijo174 - 4/20/2010 4:58 PM
muskie! nut - 4/20/2010 2:38 PM
What no option for both palming and fore grip???
I do both and it depends on what I am throwing.
If you are referring to my post, when i was 9yrs old my hands were too small to palm the reel. That's why it was no option. So i was forced to learn to use the foregrip.
No it has nothing to do with you, dtaijo174. I was just saying that I do both and there was palming, foregrip, and other. Not sure if using both means "other". |
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Location: oswego, il | I palm my reels, I put the trigger between my middle and index finger of my index and pinkie depending on the reel size. I don't cup the side plate but cup around the bottom. It takes alot of stress off of my hands that way. I hard twitch gliders, cranks and jerks alot and I find I can get a better hard twitch doing it this way, at least for me. Holding the foregrip also makes the rod shorter for a figure eight.
No worng way do what you feel comfortable doing. |
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Location: Bonduel WI | bambam270 - 4/19/2010 8:47 PM
Palm the reel...rod trigger between ring finger and pinky
I'll do the same unless I'm throwing a Bobbie Bait or a Suick then i use the fore grip of the rod. |
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Location: Maple Grove, MN | I grip the foregrip and then hug my forearm against the rod handle. That way I can use my hand and forearm to control the rod. Besides providing a solid grip, it also provides a great deal of leverage and that translates into much better hook sets and lure control. Casting is also much easier and faster.
The only problem is the increased hook setting power often leads to airborne fish. I almost took out a fishing partner last year when I sent a 5 lb Bass right at him. Luckily, he ducked in time. 
There are no rules though. Find what works for you and be careful about launching fish at your fishing partners. Otherwise, you might have to buy them lunch. 
Edited by Herb_b 4/20/2010 9:40 PM
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Location: Waconia, MN | I always palm the reel. I feel like I have more control over everything.
Edited by Eric Wolf 4/20/2010 10:14 PM
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Location: North Metro - Twin Cities | Foregrip on all lures, best control, most power on hooksets. Much of the time will keep my thumb touching the line to detect subtle strikes.
Edited by Chris Munchow 4/20/2010 10:55 PM
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| Fore grip all the way. More control, and better power, but It just seems more natural when you go into the 8, and the rod is like an extension of your arm. |
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Location: NE Wisconsin | When I started casting, 1960, the reel of the day, a Pfluger Supreme, did not yet have an anti reverse, so you had to have a thumb ready, if a fish hit and took the reel handle out of your hand. I guess this is why I evolved into palming the reel. |
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| Both, like to switch it up, smaller lures I palm, heavier lures fore grip. |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | Cast/retrieve with blades or twitch baits, I palm the reel, but on the swing with a Bulldawg or crankbait, I'm gripping the foregrip - each for control purposes. |
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Location: Wishin I Was Fishin' | I like taters
Palming my HSN7000 is tough but I still do it. Can't do the foregrip thing.
Rods with longer butts have realy made it easier for me to palm as the rod sits better beyond my elbow and waist. I just hate it when I get on a 10" Suick bit and wear holes in the side of my shirt and skin too. |
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Location: Houlton, WI | I palm the real with the butt in my arm pit |
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Location: St. Lawrence River | palm the reel..foregrip on jerkbaits |
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| Foregrip for most baits... more power on the hookset |
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| Depends. For jerkbaits I use a left-hand retrieve reel and then I palm the reel. For other lures such as spoons and crankbaits I use a right-hand retrieve reel and then I grip the foregrip. Might sound weird to some but that's what works best for me. |
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| I used to palm everything, but have gone to the fore grip for all but walking the dog. I feel I have more control and can keep a better rhythm on the walk, when I palm. |
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Location: st. croix county, wisconsin | i like to do both. that should have been an option |
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| I palm all set ups....the only one that bugs me after many hours of use is the 16N Trinidad but I pop an Aleve or 2 and I'm fine... imo you aren't getting much if any more "power" exerted on the bait holding the foregrip as guys do palming reels...
both work.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | The energy from setting the hook comes from starting the hook set at the balance point on the rod and instantly loading it up in a millisecond. The further forward or to the rear of the balance point you hold the rod, the less actual energy is released at hook set. Sure, you can 'pull' the fish forward exerting some force that way, but hook set for me is the instant the fish hits. That's why I balance my outfits and palm the reel, but as bn said, both work. |
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| Foregrip. Learned from Herbie at Andy Myers. I used to palm it, but he recommended the foregrip method when guiding us one day. Easier on the hands and better hook setting. Also, said it is safer to keep hands away from the level wind, which makes sense. If you get a big fish on and your finger is near that level wind, it can get caught in some serious chaos and turmoil which can lead to some serious damage if that 50" muskie is pulling away with your bait. He gave the same recommendation to our neighbor in the cabin next door. He didn't listen and sure enough, a big muskie nearly took the tip of his finger off the next day as he got it caught in the reel. Looked pretty painful and had to fish the rest of the week with a bandaged hand. Been using foregrip method ever since. Best part about it is how much easier it is on my hands. |
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| I use both grips. I use the fore grip for things like cranks, top water, jerks, n plastics. I palm the reel with bucktails. |
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Location: Davenport, IA | I palm the reel...everything from a Citica 100 to a Penn 209. It would take a long time for me to get used to anything else. |
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Location: Latitude 41.3016 Longitude 88.6160 | sworrall - 4/26/2010 8:55 AM
The energy from setting the hook comes from starting the hook set at the balance point on the rod and instantly loading it up in a millisecond. The further forward or to the rear of the balance point you hold the rod, the less actual energy is released at hook set. Sure, you can 'pull' the fish forward exerting some force that way, but hook set for me is the instant the fish hits. That's why I balance my outfits and palm the reel, but as bn said, both work.
SW is 100% right the hook set is what counts the most, and my hands feel so much better palming a reel then holding on to the front of the rod. |
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Location: Hudson, WI | I always use the foregrip. |
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How do you hold your rod/reel?