We all know that we never should lay our rods in the boat or in the truck with lures hanging loose or simply reeled to the tips. Hooks or lures need to be hung in a hook-holder, onto the reel or through a low rod eye, and the line should be wrapped around the rod. In fact, at day's end, it doesn't hurt to remove lures or to put covers over lures and/or rods. So today's tip isn't about how to do those things. Today's tip -- and it may be more to Jeff Samsel than anyone else -- it simply TO do those things. Properly hanging a lure and wrapping a rod only takes a moment, and it spares so many problems caused by lines tangling, lures grabbing one another, hooks finding truck seats or raingear...
Of course, the more rods you use, the more important the wrapping becomes and the more essential it becomes that you use a good system. No one know that better than a crappie fisherman who uses spider rigs, so I asked Crappie NOW co-publisher TJ Stallings for his input about effective rod wrapping. Here's what TJ had to say:
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