Never ceases to amaze me how stupid I get sometimes.
I have a harness setup I bought this spring before the TBR fest, and I was tweaking it back and forth adjusting straps the other night, getting it feeling just right before locking it down and duck taping the straps, so guys new it was mine and can't adjust it. I'll get another one for the visitors on my boat.
SO, I had to test it out of course. Experienced fishermen ALREADY know what's coming next.
I hooked up a rod and a TLD 25 with an 80 lb leader and a mustad stainless hook. In my downstairs workshop/man-cave, I have 2x4 benches screwed to the concrete floor.
I hooked the hook to the backside of a bench, got a feel for the harness at full strike, full preset (I'm upgrading to TLD 50's this winter), pulling the max drag at about 22 lbs per the scale.
Almost comically, even though there was only the dog around to see it, the 40 lb Ande decided to give out at the spro swivel, sending me cartwheeling back into the bench behind me, harness, rod, et al, into my 4 foot high bench, back of the head first, into a solid 2x4. I know it's solid, my head hit it.
After the stars cleared and the dog licked me a few times, I realized I should find a softer place to conduct testing of drag settings.
Not the dumbest thing I've ever done, but very stupid nonetheless.
Thank God I didn't have a 50 and 80 lb test pulling 35 lbs of drag, I'd be dealing with a concussion.
