Just when you thought you've seen it all.
 

When Bud8 and I were fishing the canal the other night, at about 4 am, a guy walked down and started fishing about 100 feet from us. He threw out his cast and started his retrieve, then after a few seconds I hear this buzzing noise. It was dark so I really couldn't see what it was. After his second cast I paid more attention to him, when I heard the buzzing noise, I noticed his jig go zooming by me at 100 mph. I asked him WTF he was doing, he was using a cordless drill to retrieve his line. He says it prevents the lure from getting hung on retreive. I thought it was a little crazy but to each is own I guess. Has anyone ever seen this?

for what it's worth, last saturay almost every jig I lost was lost on the reelback..... so I guess that makes sense. Odd, but it makes sense.
I wonder how he modified his reel to accept a cordless chuck.. or better yet, how he modified his chuck to accept his reel handle.

I guess I don't get it - He uses the cordless drill because he can retrieve faster with the drill than he can by hand? If it's that fast of a retrieve - what good is it? What fish is going to bite a jig moving through the water at 100mph?

I get it :D

thanks newell guy for the lesson:happy:

Come on guys - share the wealth!!! We're not talkin spots here....

At anyplace where the current is ripping along the shore(canal, breachways, points, jetties, rivers) you dont want to cast straight out and reel straight in... you want to cast up current and let it ride with the current in the deeper water until it starts to swing into the shore, when it starts to swing inward, you retrieve. Because your line is so far out your bound to hang up on the ledges that line the edge of certian places when you reel in.... Soo.. the faster you reel it in, the higher up your jig will ride, and the less chance you have of hanging up.

That dude with the drill just got sick of hanging up on his retrieves so devised a way of getting his line in as quickly as possible.

Thank you Eben - Now it makes perfect sense - I fish pretty much 100% from a boat and I wasn't really thinking about it that way. Thanks for the education!

:)

I would think that all you have to do is have the drill attach to a socket that attaches to the nut on the handle, assuming that it is a conventional reel.

tell me exactly where you are catching fish at the canal

Just cast into the water and you may catch a fish.
Hijacker.:smash:

pole 789 on the south tide

3011 on a west ........................... woops

between the bridges.....sometimes on the outside :p

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no no no pole11986-98786 really big ones. no lie