As anyone who makes their own tackle (fnar!)
for fishing knows one of the hardest jobs (apart from winding on the rings to the rod) is to place the spring and ratchet into the winder of the baitcaster.

This week is the 1st week of the summer school hols. Since she'd been nagging me for a while to go fishing (including asking for a rod for Chrissy) I thought I'd take my daughter fishing off the rocks at a nearby groyne. She was using one of my 5' flick-rods with a home-made baitcaster. It was mostly a test to see how she went putting bait on a hook and casting.

After about an hour of pulling in blowies I was about to call it when she suddenly got a massive strike on her rig. It was so strong it almost yanked her off the rocks and into the water. In light of the recent shark activities I was quite scared.
She held onto the rod with my help and the force of the strike literally tore the reel apart.
The first thing I noticed as we lost our big fish was the leaf-spring flying out of the ratchet mechanism.

There it was, the reel leaf.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Fri 21 Dec 2012, 8:07, 2 replies)

I couldn't be less surprised to read that in your spare time you 'pull in blowies'.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 21 Dec 2012, 8:18, closed)

Oh well spotted Monty.
[golf-clap]
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Fri 21 Dec 2012, 8:30, closed)

This needed to be said.
It's as though he put it there on purpose...
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 21 Dec 2012, 11:17, closed)