Pulling knots tight with your teeth
Submitted by new age on Fri, 2013-05-31 08:02
Anyone heard of or had any dental issues caused by pulling knots tight with your teeth? Seems to be a convenient way of securing knots but know it can't be good on them
Super peg
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I've got a chipped tooth
I've got a chipped tooth which is perfect as a line snip hhahha dunno how good it is for my teeth tho
is a good question,! Shouldn't be too bad? Suppose we get better at tieing them so we tie less and less as we get older to an extent....
I don't use braid so I don't know of braid would be worse?
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carnarvonite
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Two hands
Don't see any need to use your teeth to pull a knot tight when all you need is a bit of spit and two hands.
Biting line off is a good way to chip your teeth and is not recommended
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I have no problems doing
I have no problems doing it.......here is a photo of me an my mate Billie Bob.......
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nightfish
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Haha
Couple of nice collingwood fans there JohnF!
im with canarvonite, no need if anything damage the good line with teeth pulling up
Paul H
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Probably not good for your
Probably not good for your teeth and certianly wouldn't recommend it with braid
10 out of 10 dentists recommend against it :-)
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More like 10 out of 10
More like 10 out of 10 dentists are all for it !!!
(just joke hope there are no dentist here)
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Haha John looking good mate.
Haha John looking good mate. I always try use a pair of pliers to save the dentists smile
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No problems with mine yet.
No problems with mine yet. Could never bite line off though for some reason.
I stopped biting splitshots with my teeth. That cant be too good for ya lol
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pale ale
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This is uncanny....I dreamt
This is uncanny....
I dreamt last night that I damaged my tooth biting line..... My tooth fell out and the "roots" turned into a 10 inch squid tentacle.
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tim-o
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Bite the tag end of mono or
Bite the tag end of mono or fluoro with my molars, wrap my hand in my shirt then wrap the braid around my hand. I like my knots tight and braid to leader knots need to be slim
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Sammy the Salmon
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I'm guilty of it....Keep
I'm guilty of it....
Keep trying to avoid it by having line nippers on me at all time, but still find myself doing it and telling myself off....
bitten
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i do it all the time have
i do it all the time have done for years, most of the time its of, sometimes with heavier line you have to pull hard, i made that mistake once put the hook through my lip not a good look when your at work boss was not impressed
tim-o
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Orrr, yeahhhh, Im fearful of
Orrr, yeahhhh, Im fearful of that, use my index finger in the hooks gape, pull the leader with the other hand and tag in the teeth, that would suck
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Daneox
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I do it all the time too but
I do it all the time too but i should probably stop.
If your teeth are in pretty good nick I reckon you'd be ok, but as others have said it's probably best to avoid.
What do you think MattMiller? Pretty risky?? Haha!
MattMiller
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HAHA,
yeah, pretty risky. Guilty of this myself. Chipped the front of my 1 of my front teeth pulling a braid join tight.
Not sure if it was the quality of my teeth in question or the sharpness of braid that did the damage.
$150 at the dentist and she's good as new
Formerathlete
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I snipped mono up to 50lb for
I snipped mono up to 50lb for years with no probs but for some reason the tooth I used wore flat
Adam Gallash
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yeh
Yeh I got a few chips in my teeth from it, bad habit when in a hurry to get back on the hot spot.
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