thumb slip

is there anything better to use than innertube for preventing thumb slippage?

Is this with wet line or just suffering in general???

Quite often caused by applying too much too quick

bigger stronger thumbs

Cant all have hands like b****y JCB shovel buckets!!!!

Danny has

Litchy wrote:is there anything better to use than innertube for preventing thumb slippage?

In Hooke it's all part of the............."Fore-play"...! .........

Big Brad wrote:bigger stronger thumbs

hes only little bb!!!! poor little mite..

Take a look where your thumb is placed on the reel!! Silly I know but a lot of anglers and casters only put the top of the thumb on the line and hopefully with a lesson can't hold the power they have found.

The thumb should go all the way over the spool as far as it can go just take a look where your is.

Is the same as with a FS a lot of anglers place the line on the tip of the finger when they cast and wonder why the cast right and high they have premature release!!!

Put the line in the top joint of the finger and then cast problem solved

im not suffering anymore using the innertube but i was wondering what else people used incase i was missing a trick!

i find the fingers from a pair of marigolds work well for me

Abit of inner tube and thumb push ups.

I use a finger stall with a bit cut out of the top .....this give easy access for the thumb and I have it taped to the butt beneath the reel

Was told by Roger Mortimore to place your thumb first over the spool then grip the rod and not the other way around. People tend to grip the rod first then just put the top of the thumb onto the reel without any real grip unles you have shovel hands.

Kep wrote:Was told by Roger Mortimore to place your thumb first over the spool then grip the rod and not the other way around. People tend to grip the rod first then just put the top of the thumb onto the reel without any real grip unles you have shovel hands.

I like that!! thats a great little tip

That was the point I was trying to make!!!

Never had a slippage since I started using inner tube. Used to use the marigold thumby, but found it still slipped when I'd baited up with oily baits.

right then, it ain't broke so i'll stop trying to fix it

Litchy wrote:is there anything better to use than innertube for preventing thumb slippage?

Litchy wrote:im not suffering anymore using the innertube but i was wondering what else people used incase i was missing a trick!

Have you thought about using a fixed spool


Oh well , I thought it funny :\\d:

Cricket bat rubber grip cut into strips.

i dont have shovel hands but i have got long ass fingers (insert missing alien smilie lol) so getting my thumb over aint a problem and a near full length marigold finger cut off and kept in the top pocket of my floaty is ideal for me

I use cricket bat handle grip (obviously cut up) and it works a treat. no more spool slip and no more ripped thumb from the leader knot

Marigolds for me ideal and you can get quite a few from a pair

old soldier wrote:Marigolds for me ideal and you can get quite a few from a pair

well 10, as long as you got small thumbs otherwise it may be few less i guess.