Advice on stoping thumb burn

[ambleangler]

Using rubber "thumbys" made from fingers cut off rubber gloves are used to lock down the reel spool when power casting,you still leave the tip of your thumb clear of rubber to spool and slow/stop the reel at the end of your cast.Learning to do that just takes time and practice for everyone when you start using multipliers,with the odd burned thumb while you learn happens to everyone.

If you cover your thumb completely with a rubber finger off a glove as was suggested,yes you will save your thumb from being burned occasionally,but instead burn and ruin your reel line on the very first cast and probably crack off your lead and trace.Hope that helps and you can understand my explanation maybe someone else could explain it better.

cannot agree mate, have used the fingers from industrial gloves loads of times in the past and never suffered ruined lines or crack-offs.

aa.

 

[09gmarsh2009]

shouldn't be a problem when releasing as all you do is take yer thumb off the spool from stationary then thumb only applied to stop spool when touching down as said though this will take a bit of practice. Night fishing is different like, you need to estimate when the lead is going to hit the water, again, after a lot of practice you should get used to it, spool noise and flight time are the measures. The only time I need to use the thumb during a cast is if I pull it, then it's damage control to stop a nest ooucher!
Odd time feathering or light touching of the spool with the thumb may be required if you can feel the line lifting a bit, I find this sometimes happens if the line is not laid back on the spool very well after reeling in a fish for example.

Spot on mate almost the same as what I was going to say!!!!! So as that man said!!!

 

[OuTkast76]

cannot agree mate, have used the fingers from industrial gloves loads of times in the past and never suffered ruined lines or crack-offs.

aa.

Same, I always use a pair of polyurethane coated work gloves especially in the winter but not really for thumb burn more so to keep my hands warm and dry, Its easier and safer to cast with them on other than cold wet hands in my opinion and as said by ambleangler I have never ruined lines or cracked off in years of wearing them