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 :)