Did you ever get a rod stuck in a tree?

[sunsignarcher]

Sooooo, I'm fishin point mountain Sat evening with the kids taking the opportunity to do more casting instruction with the kids than fishing. I've got my son coming pretty close to pulling off a single hand snap t with my 6 wt and a wolf triangle taper with a big streamer.

He just couldn't get the last part so I took the rod to show him what he was doing wrong and managed to somehow send our fly up into the trees overhead. If showing someone what not to do was all it took to teach I'd be the best.

The flys out of reach and I break it off before I can pull the branch down far enough to grab. So without hesitation I turn the rod around raise the reel into the air and hook the branch with it. This somehow worked int the past but I was about to learn just how stupid a move this really was.

I start pulling the limb down with the reel and sure as shit the bottom 2 sections come off like I soooo should have known they would and the branch springs back with half my rod hanging off it.
:nose-picking:

So Im strarin up at my rod, the kids are rollin and Im thinking I'm gonna need to pull 30 miles of line and backing off that reel to get it back down to earth so I can reach it....naaaah F that, Im just gonna reach right back up there with the remaining sections I have in my hand, hook the bottom eye on the third section to first eye on the second and yank that bitch back down here.

That seemed to work well enough until I reach for the rod and the second sec let go causing the butt sec and reel to slingshot into the air and land out in the MIDDLE OF THE GODDAMN RIVER.
:finger:

I took a minute to remind the kids to breath, they were laughing so hard I thought they might pass out and join the butt in the drink then I started pullin. I think it was an hour by the time I pulled all the line and backing outta the river and landed my reel and butt. I put the rod back together, respooled and we made it back to the car before dark.

Im just glad no one else was there to see that....:looser:

 

[Barleywine]

Hilarious story!!!!:rofl:

I think I know what your boys will be talking about in school today.

 

[Thursthouse]

Hahahaha!! F'n hilarious hahaha

 

[lightenup]

That is a funny story.....I lost a rod tip section walking out of the woods in the dark once....I found is suspended in a tree along the path...I had reeled my line all the way up, and had the rod pointing backwards so I didn't poke the tip into a tree...I guess an guide got caught on a branch and delicately took the tip section with it.....I didn't notice until I got back to the car.....after a frantic search.it was found....

not even close to as funny as the show you put on.....

 

[Thursthouse]

One tip that I was taught stream side, (I'm sure many of you do this, but might be helpful for fellow newbies) is when putting the sections of your rod together, have the guides off set by 90 degrees, then as you slide the one section into the other section twist and pull down at the same time until the guides line up. The twisting creates a much stronger connection as opposed to simply inserting one section into the other. (I'm expecting some sexual comments out of you heathens) Have never had an issue with the sections coming apart when I did not want them to since I was taught this.

 

[tomfly]

One of your boys should have videoed that.

 

[Stevester]

I am sure that the kids had a great time describing it to their mom when they got home. That is one of the few dumb things I haven't done in many years of fishing.

Steve