Re: Rod leashes: leave on when fishing or take off?

[Piranha]

IMHO, If you're fishing and you stop to change hooks or sinkers or lures and something happens, you'd better have your rod leashed! I'll bet 95 % of the readers of this board have had a rod fall off their yak. You need the leashes more when you're fishing than when you're paddling with the rods in the rod holders! The only time the leashes help in the rod holders is when you flip! It's much cheaper ro rinse the salt outta your reel because it got submerged on the end of the leash, than to buy a new reel at $100+! Not to mention the rod. If you're fishing two rods, and you get bit on the one in the rod holder, you lay the other one on the deck and badda boom, badda bang, a double hookup and one of your rods is in the drink! Leash 'em or weep! Piranha

[PerryC]

SD,
I usually don't have a leash on my active rod, but I throw alot of plastics and such. I do tend to use a leash more on my active rod if I'm trolling for halibuts or ??, rather than throwing plastics making a cast every minute. Really though, you need to leash it or risk losing whatever it is. Maybe one rod, maybe a set...you never know. If you do make your own, you could make some shorter rod leashes for storing your rods that doesn't hang over and drag in the water possibly, and a longer one that doesn't restrict your movement with your active rod. Hope this helps,
Perry

[defjack]

I leave mine on all the time.I also leash ,net gaff and anything else I want to keep. Jack