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06-25-2015, 05:02 PM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 10,543
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Don't use your teeth....
To help cinch up your knots...... I was rigging up a new rod for my nephew yesterday and used my teeth to cinch up a palomar on the leader. Chipped and cracked front tooth. Was in the dentist's chair this afternoon getting it bonded.....
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06-25-2015, 05:36 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Pembroke
Posts: 3,343
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Broken teeth or cut fingers.. I do both.
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06-25-2015, 06:36 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Buxton, Maine
Posts: 1,727
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LOL Guilty. they're my 3rd hand
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06-25-2015, 07:15 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: North Dartmouth, MA
Posts: 238
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I'm ok with cut hands. Broken teeth?? All set.
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06-25-2015, 07:16 PM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,270
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I don't used my teeth on knots at all anymore.
Plus I have found I get a better pull using my pliers
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~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
Striped Bass Fishing - All Stripers
Kobayashi Maru Election - there is no way to win.
Apocalypse is Coming:
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06-25-2015, 08:14 PM
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My brother is bald
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Parts Unknown
Posts: 4,516
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Lower front teeth I guess. Left side looking forward. Opposite if you are a south paw. The bond won't hold long if you keep biting. Harder habit to break than smoking.
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seals + plovers = 
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06-25-2015, 08:17 PM
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Pete K.
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 2,953
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Leave a long tag end and let your first fish tighten your knot for you.
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06-25-2015, 08:56 PM
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"Fishbucket"
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Bahston Hahbah
Posts: 6,588
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Not enough left to risk em on knots.
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06-26-2015, 06:19 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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i tie a clove hitch against my palomar knot
which makes the tag end stick out at 90 degrees
from the main line so its easier to nip it off
and not cut the wrong one
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06-28-2015, 08:39 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: North Shore
Posts: 1,701
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Ross ... right there with you ... used to bite mono all the time until the front of one of my teeth chipped and a big chunk came off ... had to get it bonded too ... this was over 15 years ago ... at first I moved to my molars but quickly decided to use pliers, snippers, scissors or whatevers would handle it better than my teeth
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"It was the blackest night! There was no moon in sight! (You know the stars ain't shinnin cause the sky's too tight) "
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06-29-2015, 01:14 AM
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Frank Capone
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Hamden, Connecticut
Posts: 2,229
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Good post.
Dentist recently told me I had a few minor chips and uneven edges on my teeth and asked me how that might have happened ?
I'll change my techniques after reading this post.
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06-29-2015, 06:46 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2000
Posts: 2,574
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Years ago I finally learned my lesson after three trips to the dentist for rebuilds.
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DZ
Recreational Surfcaster
"Limit Your Kill - Don't Kill Your Limit"
Bi + Ne = SB 2
If you haven't heard of the Snowstorm Blitz of 1987 - you someday will.
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06-29-2015, 12:55 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2010
Location: East Hampton, CT
Posts: 1,076
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I agree with Mikey, harder than smoking to quit !! That stuff they put on there is really holding well though.....
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06-30-2015, 04:10 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Somerset MA
Posts: 9,370
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I Have had an overbite since i was a kid i am lucky to be able to cut a carrot in half with my teeth LOL mono not a chance !!
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07-02-2015, 04:04 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Posts: 4,449
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Ugh...I have nice teeth and have been using them for 40 years on knots.
I agree, pliers are likely the way to go.
I also agree that it is WAAAAY harder than quitting smoking.
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07-06-2015, 08:11 PM
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Always a Rookie
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: South Shore Long Island, NY
Posts: 475
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My mentor used his teeth to cut line. When I asked him how he did that without needing pliers he told me his technique and quickly followed with, "never try it because I have a chipped tooth to prove it."
One of his kids didn't get the message about using your teeth to cut things that aren't food and almost popped a vertebra in his neck out of place.
To this day my godfather apparently still cuts with his teeth and tells everyone to not do what he does...
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"Your first word was "Fishing", not "Mom", not "Dad", "FISHING." - Mom
Black, White, Chartreuse/Parrot = the Holy Trinity
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07-07-2015, 05:20 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Salisbury, MA
Posts: 36
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Ross,
Never heard of this "costly" fishing injury! Thanks for the tip!
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07-10-2015, 08:08 AM
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My brother is bald
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Parts Unknown
Posts: 4,516
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Happened to me a few years ago. Not a cheap fix either
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seals + plovers =
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