My buddy did this to my reel after I had respooled with Gamma the night before. There went $30 bucks

Did he tip you after the trip

One thing I learned when I first joined the Century Bass Club way back in the day was not to put all of your rigs on the deck before a tournament and leave the boat unattended before take off. It was confusing for a while to make your first cast and watch your bait fly about a hundred yards because your line was cut off. Or get a major backlash because all of your dials would be loosened up all the way. Spent a lot of time working on rigs on the water first thing in the morning. Glad I can laugh about it now.
Also spent a lot of time trying to figure out how come my boat wouldn't start. Always check those kill switches.

My buddy did the same thing with a new terminator spinner bait a few years ago. I had to laugh at him, but he was not happy.

Actually, my club members would back off your drag to the point of useless. Lost a good fish (I think) when I set the hook, and the reel just spun and left me with a backlash. Lesson learned.

That's not even funny. Ex-Lax donuts and Metamucil coffee to the offender once found.

You are not alone in that although it was not a glide bait. Happened a few times especially when I was younger and thought I tied a good Palomar. Nope.

Yeah he did. He told me to stay outta dark alleys

Was it a left handed reel

It's been a very long time, however I use spinning reels.

The older I get the worse the arthritis gets in my hands get and the strokes didn't help I can pull off a pretty good backlash from time to time. I would agree that throwing a frog on braid is the worst when you try to muscle it for another foot or two. Reel magic helps.

Yes getting Old sucks...and things are stacked against you....I suffered compound fractures of both wrists from a fall from an overpass in the early 90s (story for another day), so yeah arthritis among other things...that and failing eyesight + micro guides often send me into fits of rage...and the harder you try, the worse the arthritis gets and might as well be blindfolded. Then the wife says "its just life, you cant get angry"...THE F I can't, just watch me (and that comment is like jet fuel on a fire).

So, when you fight through all of that and finally have everything spooled up and ready to go and you are feeling somewhat good about that fact that you got it done, it doesn't matter how you set the reel brakes, the spool tension, the drag or anything else, your first cast results in the mother of all snarls and you realize that the line on one of the middle eyelets is NOT through the eye-let, but rather its actually through the foot part of the eye-let attached to the rod. When this happens, even my wife knows better than to make any comment whatsoever.

Now having said all of that, it has been years since I have had a full blown meltdown...and come to think of it, coincidentally it has been a few years since I have had to make amends to anyone...so there is a glimmer of hope....