I get 5% more distance, and 35% less fingertip – not a fair trade

I’ve been pounding the Sharkskin line over a month now, and lately it has been giving better than it’s receiving. Buyers need to understand this line bites, and I’m not kidding.

This is my “trigger” finger after 5 hours of nymphing. Nothing heavy, just 300 minutes of stripping running line across my now tender flesh.

It’s a first class rope burn, painful enough so that you’d grimace if you needed to keep fishing – and would juggle the line onto other fingers to lessen the pain.

I haven’t seen any mention of this phenomenon in their advertising, but the 3M engineers are very much aware of the issue.

It is hard on fingers though, in applications that require a lot of casting and stripping. We recommend finger protection…

The idea of wearing protection on my trigger finger defeats the purpose entirely. The line is draped on that finger so I feel the slightest tap and can react with a hook set. After 300 minutes fishing, I’m liable to yell when I set hook, but it won’t be “Fish On” – more like “F**k Me!”

Bad idea, but great for the makers of “Phone Fingers” – they should sell snot out of the product as a result.

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