Cutting Your Losses

[cow tamer]

When you get hung-up there are basically (1) of (3) options:
1/ pull to try to work your lure free and potentially weaken your line in the process and then continue to fish
2/ cut the line and lose the lure but save the integrity of your line
3/ pull and hope for the best, but remove the stressed line before continuing to fish

I try for option (3).
What do you do in a similar circumstance?

[Skitterpop]

seriously though.... pull give slack pull from different angles if possible
slow heavy pull might straighten hooks even 4X VMCs

If good fish are about...bust off check line quickly trim back if needed and rerig catch fish

[gone fishin]

Never cut lines and leave long chunks for others to hang up on. When fishing an area that you are prone to getting hung up, be sure to use a long leader of less test than the braid or line you are using. When getting hung up and you cannot dislodge the jig bait or whatever, you can wrap the line around the butt of the rod or a stick or whatever and pull stright back till you either dislodge the jig or break off at the leader.
I have paved the ditch from one end to the other using this method in my too many years fishing the ditch. How many others have done so??

[Slipknot]

Originally Posted by gonefishintalk

Never cut lines and leave long chunks for others to hang up on. When fishing an area that you are prone to getting hung up, be sure to use a long leader of less test than the braid or line you are using. When getting hung up and you cannot dislodge the jig bait or whatever, you can wrap the line around the butt of the rod or a stick or whatever and pull stright back till you either dislodge the jig or break off at the leader.
I have paved the ditch from one end to the other using this method in my too many years fishing the ditch. How many others have done so??

what he said.

I get hung up on others line in the canal and it's frustrating. ALWAYS use a leader that will break first. I have never left more than an inch or 2 of line in the canal and hope I never do.

I think what cow tamer may have meant about cutting the line, is if it's just a short length of line out there and too deep to reach the plug, or something like that because he is from RI and I doubt he gets hung up with 100 yards or more line out like we do in the canal.

[gone fishin]

slip

[Bazza]

For the canal, pull on line, line breaks.....fall back on butt on the rocks...ouch!!!

[Slipknot]

Depends on where and what line ya use.

In the canal with 65 lb braid and a jig with a 8/0 hook I just pull it free, if the line breaks no big deal, just tie on another as the braid can take the pulling, not sure if mono could.