A Hole In My Theories?
So you may remember the recent rod repair I performed on a Pete Mania Musky Rod from Bass Pro Shops. Well about a week before leaving for Little Vermilion, I was at a friends house watching TV (I don’t own a TV) and I saw a musky guide put his hook through what looked like a hole in the trigger. At that point I understood what the hole was for, but still given all the rods on display with broken triggers and how much my rods got beaten around in the car and on the boat I was glad I filled it. I knew there had to be a better way to do this, without sacrificing any performance.
Sure enough, while packing my things for the trip it came to me. A hook ring that thats customizable in both strength, size, and thickness, as well as cheap, replaceable, and has no performance drawbacks. Don’t lose site now, this isn’t an infomercial, and I won’t be selling you anything.
All you need are two zip ties!You’ll also want to make sure you can still remove the reel from it’s seat while the zip ties are on, depending on your configuration, smaller or thinner zip ties maybe in order. While your at it toss a few in your tackle box for later.
So maybe instead of a person or machine in a factory drilling holes in your perfectly molded and crafted trigger, that will likely break because of it, just toss in a couple zip ties.
Thanks to the mysterious anglingarcher for pointing out the mix-up in my original post, and mostly for reminding me to get this posted. I still have a lot of back logs to go through, as well as a pile of real work to do, more interesting updates are on their way!
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