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| Which do you prefer/do when working a jerkbait? When working heavy lures (Bulldawgs) or dive/rise lures (Suick) I always palm the reel. When I want to work a glider fast I use the foregrip 99% of the time.
PIKEMASTER - Is it harmful to the reel for my glider method? I assume it can't be good. I use a Shimano Cardiff with the factory handle. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I palm the reel, no matter what. |
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Location: Oregon | I palm the reel but must admit it takes a toll on your hands/arm after enough hours of it. I like to have my thumb on the spool when I set the hook.
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Location: oswego, il | I always palm the reel. I can get better wrist snaps that way working gliders,twitchbaits and jerkbaits than I can holding the fore grip. You also lose 6" of rod length at boatside. |
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Location: Latitude 41.3016 Longitude 88.6160 | catchandrelease - 9/30/2011 3:05 PM
Which do you prefer/do when working a jerkbait? When working heavy lures (Bulldawgs) or dive/rise lures (Suick) I always palm the reel. When I want to work a glider fast I use the foregrip 99% of the time.
PIKEMASTER - Is it harmful to the reel for my glider method? I assume it can't be good. I use a Shimano Cardiff with the factory handle.
I palm a reel because I can use my thumb on the spool when ripping and when I SET A HOOK which I think is the key to a good hook set and U will save your reel from alot of stress. Plus if U grip your forgrip your hand will be toast at the end of the day trying to grip the forgrip. Also when U plam a reel you gain about 6 inches of rod length and U can move a bait better plaming a reel. I don't lock down my drag but use my thumb on the spool on hook sets, so when I take my thumb off the spool I have a drag that will let out a little line, I don't have take my hands off the reel to loosen my drag.
U can do what U think is right, I'm not saying my way is right way but my hand at the end of the day feels alot better then if I was gripping the for grip and my hook sets don't slip. |
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| i havent been muskie fishin as long as some, but i Def prefer palming the reel as opposed to forgrip. I get to much play in my rig when im reeling with my hand on the foregrip. |
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| Palming, always, thumb the spool when twitching/ripping and setting hooks. |
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Location: Minneapolis | I never palm... |
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| i never palm either...using a 9ft rod you get way more leverage holding the foregrip, especially when i work baits like phantoms and magic makers i get a harder snap and when i set the hook and have that butt end tucked between my arm and my core i get a ton more leverage to really drive the hooks in |
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Location: South-Central VA | I don't think I've ever touched the fore grip on any of my rods. It's just not a comfortable way to hold the rod for me.
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Location: Oregon | You could probably do better by not palming once you get used to it particularly if you have the drag set really right. I just grew up palming the reel and after all these years it feels very unnatural to hold the rod in any other way.
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| First of all, I palm my reel for every lure type except gliding jerkbaits. I feel like I can work them faster and with better control. That's just personal opinion. To be perfectly honest, my hand/wrist don't hurt that much. My hands hurt much more from palming the reel. I have fairly big hands, but I still feel like I have to overstretch to palm the reel. When I use bass-sized reels, like a Revo, my hand gets destroyed by palming the reel. I also use a twitching motion and I want to have everything below my forearm amputated at the end of the day. I switched to holding the foregrip because my hand hurt so much from palming, and I doubt I will change anytime soon. |
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Location: Minnesota: where it's tough to be a sportsfan! | I've always palmed the reel and have had many a claw hand to prove it. I am trying to convince myself to use the foregrip. It just doesn't feel natural to me not to get that hardline feedback from the bait through my left hand. I'm in that transition stage of trying to change. Hard to do... |
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| I always used to be a palmer, spent one day on the water with a guide who showed me the light! Now I only use the foregrip - WAY more power on the hookset, and it is especially easier to set the hook using gliders. No more slipping and fumbling while loosely palming the reel during the retrieve when the strike comes. Fatten the grip up with tennis wrap if need be and have at it. |
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Location: oswego, il | I think the foregrip does give a hookset advantage but imho I do not think you can get that hard snap that I like to give gliders and jerks. I have tried it and it least for me was a disadvantage. |
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Location: Michigan | RStien321 - 10/3/2011 2:02 PM
Fatten the grip up with tennis wrap if need be and have at it.
Very good advice! I used to palm the reel but switched to using the foregrip and my hook-up percentage has gone up. The thicker the cork on the grip the more comfortable it is. The Mike Hulbert rods have very thick cork on the grip and they are very comfortable. |
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Location: North Metro - Twin Cities | Fore grip for all applications. |
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| Always palm...tried the fore grip...just feels awkward for me |
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Location: Latitude 41.3016 Longitude 88.6160 | I thought of any reason why I palm a reel, when I cast I switch hands when the Lure is in the air so my left hand is palming the reel so I can stop the bait in the air before the lure hits the water with my thumb stopping the spool to straighten out the bait and I can start to reel as soon as the bait is straight and hits the water. I see so many guys do that by engaging the reel when the bait is in the air and that is so hard on a reel. Like I said U can do whatever but by palming and using your thumb on the spool to stop the lure before your lure hits the water and by using your thumb on the spool when ripping and on hook sets , U can save your reel from alot of unnecessary abuse. |
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| Dogs and Suicks I have to hold the foregrip. Especially when using dogs otherwise I feel I can't get a hard enough rip. But gliders I always hold the reel seems I can get more controlled "pops" doing that. |
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| I just read through the posts. I cast right and left handed, reel with right and left handed reels and palm and foregrip both right and left handed depending on application. I am not ambidextrious. When your hands and wrists get sore or cut up/injured that can force a change in habits. Another way to learn is when it is slow fishing force yourself to hold and cast your rods and reels differently.
I palm right and left for most smaller baits. For heavier tiring baits I foregrip for fatigue and power on hooksets. Rods, reels, and lures are tools; some tools are better served by holding the rods and reels differently. I still think its painfully odd watching people cast with their right hands switch hands and then reel with their right hands on speed baits such as smaller bucktails. |
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Location: Mt. Zion, IL | I palm every reel and I don't have small hands. I have extended all the handles on my rods to 20" long. This helps when I cast, helps when ripping baits, fishing gliders, and makes it easier to get a big figure 8. Pin the rod handle under your arm and use your bicep instead of your wrist. My dad has major shoulder and wrist problems and he used my 9' rods (8'6" with extensions) and he said it was a dream for him to use. Wrists, hands, and shoulders all were not near as sore as usual. |
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Location: Forest Lake, MN & Bemidji, MN | "I palm every reel and I don't have small hands. I have extended all the handles on my rods to 20" long. This helps when I cast, helps when ripping baits, fishing gliders, and makes it easier to get a big figure 8. Pin the rod handle under your arm and use your bicep instead of your wrist. My dad has major shoulder and wrist problems and he used my 9' rods (8'6" with extensions) and he said it was a dream for him to use. Wrists, hands, and shoulders all were not near as sore as usual"
x 2 I have 19 to 22" rear handles on all rods depending on original length. A longer rod handle allows an additional easy way to secure the rod and more leverage on the cast, retrive and hookset. Less fatigue for everything, you will especially appreciate it when casting pounders or retrieving double blades. Allows you to use larger muscle groups. |
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