Braided line and braid scars

[Dug]

Started using braid a lot more last year and now this year.  One thing I don't like about it, when I grab the line and pull it digs in right at the side of my top pinky knuckle.
I now have callouses built up there and scarring.  Yet the line still cuts in when I grab the line to either check my drag or pull a stubborn hang up.  So I have taken to wrapping both pinkies with a bandaid when I get ready to go fishing.  No more cutting into my skin.  So

Go to the dollar store in your area and pick up a cheap box of bandaids, wrap them where the line would cut into your fingers and prevent this small frustrating wound.  Regular tape, electric tape and sports tape all work too, but the bandaids have that extra bit of padding and stick to your skin better.

Dug

[GotstaFish]

I wear my battle wounds with pride  Been using braid for 4 years and the worst I had was when I made the mistake of grabbing the line with a 6 lb. Pike on the other end. Zipped me straight to the bone on my index finger. Never did that again 

[Dug]

That could ruin a day of fishing for sure......

Dug

[GotstaFish]

That could ruin a day of fishing for sure......

Dug

Kept fishing the rest of the day. It was right inside the crease on the first knuckle and itched liked crazy for a week while it healed...

[Dug]

Yup, I understand that, I have the cut on either pinky finger plus one on my left index finger from the braid and they all itch, that's one reason I decided to try the bandaids and last time I went fishing and pulled braid, not a bit of problem.

Dug

[ss454]

I wear my battle wounds with pride  Been using braid for 4 years and the worst I had was when I made the mistake of grabbing the line with a 6 lb. Pike on the other end. Zipped me straight to the bone on my index finger. Never did that again 

I did the same thing with a big drum    I also made the mistake of wrapping the line around my hand one time to check my drag AFTER I cast...needless to say a bass grabbed my worm right when it hit the water and gave me several braid cuts before I got the line out from around my hand.  I don't do that anymore.

[coldfront]

I wear my battle wounds with pride  Been using braid for 4 years and the worst I had was when I made the mistake of grabbing the line with a 6 lb. Pike on the other end. Zipped me straight to the bone on my index finger. Never did that again 

A wrap or two of white athletic tape (the stuff we all used on our ankles in highschool football) works very well too...either before or after...

[OutdoorFrontiers]

LOL, I learned a long time ago not to wrap braided line around any body part!  That stuff will cut like a knife and depending on the wound, subject to infection.

If I get hung up, I point the rod directly at the offending lure, reel forward until the line is tight and my arms are outstretched.  Then, I pull straight back with my thumb on the spool or holding the spool if it's a spinning rig.  Usually the hook straightens out or the snag comes to me.  Once in a while though, it will break off. 

If this doesn't work, like when I'm using 65 lb, 80 lb or 100 lb. PowerPro, I'll then wrap the line around a boat cleat and let the trolling motor take care of the snag.

I'll never wrap braid around my hands ever again, I'm not into pain and bleeding!

Steve

[Dug]

Ah if only I had a boat cleat, then I might have a boat.  I will wrap  the braid around a pair of needlenose pliers when I think about it it, but after so many years of mono, I fergit.

Dug

[Just_Old_Fisherman]

What I finally did, was get a 1" dowel stick about 18" long then put some 1" ID vinyl tubing around it and stapled it in place.  Now I can wrap the braid around that, the vinyl keeps it from slipping and I can really tug it.  Pulled up 1 lake bottom.

[Dug]

What I finally did, was get a 1" dowel stick about 18" long then put some 1" ID vinyl tubing around it and stapled it in place.  Now I can wrap the braid around that, the vinyl keeps it from slipping and I can really tug it.  Pulled up 1 lake bottom.

Where did you put the water???

Dug

[GotstaFish]

I have never pulled up a lake bottom but I did pull up a railroad tie out of 18 feet of water on Lake Fork 

[1FASTLASER]

Where did you put the water???

Dug

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[scatch1]

I pulle :-*d up a homemade rebar anchor.had to use the 35hp. to do it.

[bassn1]

Started using braid a lot more last year and now this year.  One thing I don't like about it, when I grab the line and pull it digs in right at the side of my top pinky knuckle.
I now have callouses built up there and scarring.  Yet the line still cuts in when I grab the line to either check my drag or pull a stubborn hang up.  So I have taken to wrapping both pinkies with a bandaid when I get ready to go fishing.  No more cutting into my skin.  So

Go to the dollar store in your area and pick up a cheap box of bandaids, wrap them where the line would cut into your fingers and prevent this small frustrating wound.  Regular tape, electric tape and sports tape all work too, but the bandaids have that extra bit of padding and stick to your skin better.

Dug

Well, I sure did like the tip. I have been using Power Pro for 2 years now and still forget how easilly it cuts my fingers. I do not get out as much as I use to. It seems to take me one practice day before a Tx. to learn ( the hard way ) that braid cuts. The rest of the Tx. I am reminded by the pain that I should not use my hands to release snags.
I now will wrap my fingers with bandaids before each practice day.

[Just_Old_Fisherman]

I got a 1 foot long 1" dowel then some 1" vinyl hose and put it over the dowel and stapled/tacked it in place.  The vinyl hose grabs the line better than a slick dowel or needle nose pliers so it won't slip as bad.  You have to be careful pulling with a reel it can bend the spool shaft if too much force is applied.

[bassinagain]

Damn I wish I paid attention to this thread before. I just started using braid this year.
Last week I was fishing in the canoe with my two kids when I hooked into a nice size pike. He got my line wrapped around some weeds so bad that the braid wouldn't cut through it. There was no movement at all so I figure he got off(my first stupid idea ) It was so windy that my son couldn't keep me above the snag with his paddle so I was holding onto the weeds with one hand while I wrapped the line around my hand and pulled it up. Well it turns out the pike had rolled himself up into a big tube with the weeds and when he saw me he decided to be somewhere else in a big hurry. 
I ended up with a nice cut in my index finger and on the meat of my palm and neither one of them seem to be in an hurry to heal. The worst thing is I always tell my kids not to hold the line in their hands. So while I was bleeding and trying to get the fish into the boat I had to listen to my 10 year tell me that I shouldn't grab the line.