After fishing for 50 plus years you'd think you would never backlash so bad that you had to cut the line out.

While out kayaking last week a cast caught the other rod which was behind me and backlashed pretty bad. I dug it out and continued fishing. About an hour later I did it again, so bad this time that I just reeled it up and brought it home and cut the line out.

When was the last time for you?

2 weeks ago. I'll blame the beer.

I use nothing but spinning reels and I get them too. Usually happens 3/4 into the fishing trip after I haven't caught anything worth it.


So, trip before last.

Two weeks ago in a club tournament. Lure hit the trolling motor head and got the mother of all backlashes. Didn't even bother with it, just tossed it in the rod locker and grabbed another.

It's called a professional overcast at our age .. You prob clipped something while casting.

Over slinging with light weight braid will ball up a spinning reel. Sometimes it'll knot up.

Thats why I carry 14 rod and reel set ups.

last weekend, throwing a buzzbait on my pistol grip setup, was side arming up a bank of boathouses...everything was going along fine till "WHAM" hit the head of the trolling motor with the buzzbait and it was game over !!!... I carry a duffle bag full of line... hit the spotlock and sat down to cut it out, peeled off what was left and spooled it up... back at it with a new consciousness of the trolling motor head... LOL.

It's been a long time since I've done it but I did do it this year and had to cut it out. I was fishing in heavy wind and decided to go to a much heavier lure on the same rig I was fishing, and forgot to reset the reel for it.

I love the ones so bad it breaks the lure off and it goes 500 yards..... "man, that would have been a great cast had it been planned"

The ones with a frog and fresh braid are great. It buries and you can just throw it in the box cause it's done

i have been experimenting with 50# braid on my c-rig setup. it casts a freaking mile... with a flouro leader past the swivel. very easy to tie. BUT! the backlashes with 3/4oz weight..... oh man! last week was a good one I had to bring home and pick out while sitting on the couch. took about 30 minutes

Yup 50 and down backlash are a total train wreck

I’ve caught some big fish after a good (but not great) backlash, .., some days it can almost be a pattern.

Gonna tell on myself for something incredibly stupid. Not a backlash but it's line related. Recently ordered a couple Clutch Eco Glides when they were back in stock. Threw them in the boat and first trip.out with them I ran out to a do nothing kinda point just to test how they ran to see if they needed any tuning. I'm in about 15' of water. I throw the first one for a whole. All is well. Runs perfectly. I cut it off, Mark it and put it away. Grab the second one and tie it on. First cast I just pitch it about 15' from the boat and I see it fly off the end of the line abd start to sink. I try to get to it on the trolling motor and catch it with rod but it's sank out of sight by then. I drop a couple of waypoints and troll over tge spot a few times to really mark it.
I guess in my haste I tied a really poor knot as the line did not break. It simply cane loose. It was 100% controllable on my part. First and over time I've ever done that but of course it's on a $100 bait when I do.

I feel pretty good that I will get the bait back next trip out when I drag the spot for it but is still embarrassing as hell that I caused it.