An honorable man would take his win and call it a day. Give me that video back. You're no longer allowed to enjoy it.:mad:

Red Top had them in the fall. Probably still do.

SWE was out of them at xmas time

Thats funny ... Your wife told me you washed all the dishes . Wearing a frilly apron to boot .. :laughs::wavey:

Fingerguards? For real?

I've never had the need for a finger guard or glove..except if it is too cold to go bare handed. Never did understand why guys wear them, I've never had a prob. cutting myself with braid..conv. or spin, surf or boat....Maybe diff casting style????? Girlie hands???? I don't know... Curious....

I think that has alot to do with proper casting form. Yeah I just kissed your ass a little. I put way too much pressure on the line with my finger. I just can't break the habit. One day I'll lose a finger for it. :o

i can and do fish braid without gloves with relatively heavy, say up to 3 oz, plugs without issue. but more and more i find myself fishing with gloves on each hand. just don't see the point in destroying my hands (bass thumb/hand, barnacle cuts, line cuts, etc.) when i can comfortably were a pair of aquaskinz gloves. i guess i'm just soft.

It has to do more with casting heavy weights, than proper form. If you want to try to tell me that I don't have good form, you're going to get into one hell of an argument :chatter :whackin:

3 oz is about the lightest weight that I cast. When you move up to 4, 5 and 6 oz, you need something on your finger. Especially when it's raining--wet skin cuts way more easily than dry.

Braid is abrasive--all brands--even the soft ones like Sufix. After a night of throwing 4 oz jigs with a reel like a 525 Mag or a Saltist, my leveling thumb looks like raw hamburger. Retrieving eels and light plugs doesn't put nearly as much stress on your thumb as humping 4 oz jigs from 40' depths against a 4 knot current does. Same is true when you're talking about casts with a spinning reel. Once my leveling thumb is junk, I have to switch over until the skin repairs itself--if I chew my trigger finger up, what am I supposed to do--not fish? :rtfm:

I usually always wear aquaskins gloves mainly for grabbing rocks, ect. One night took the gloves off, got swept off a rock by a waves threw me backwards and I was scraping my hands down the rock trying to hold on for dear life. After i got myself back onto the rock my hands looked like they had gone through a cheese grater. I always wear gloves now. No exception.

Switched back to Yozuri Hybrid from braid to save the skin on my hands. Don't need gloves anymore, though heavier jigs are tougher to retrieve with the Hybrid line.

I met my current wife in October about 5 or 6 years ago.
My hands looked like I had leprosy, had to hide them from her...all from no gloves, braid and lots of fish... She fell in love with me anyway...must have been the braces :)