Flipping

[joeim8]

Hello all,

When Flipping for Bass how are you suppose to hold/pinch the line between your fingers?

Should I be pinching it with my index finger and thumb and kind of guiding it to my target or should i be letting it glide threw my fingers/thumb somehow?

Thanks for any info

[BucketHunter]

neither, you shouldnt be touching the line beyond the reel at all.
you need to use your reel hand thumb to control the spool speed. its take practice, but it comes.
turn off your brakes and pitch with crisp, short motions. the longer the motion, and the slower, the more likely you are to deviate from a pattern, and your consistency will suffer.
like a golf swing, compact, smooth, and repeatable.

[BucketHunter]

neither, you shouldnt be touching the line beyond the reel at all.
you need to use your reel hand thumb to control the spool speed. its take practice, but it comes.
turn off your brakes and pitch with crisp, short motions. the longer the motion, and the slower, the more likely you are to deviate from a pattern, and your consistency will suffer.
like a golf swing, compact, smooth, and repeatable.

sorry, disregard. i though you said pitching.
some advice though? learn to pitch well enough that you don't have to flip. much easier.
cheers.

[soua0363]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVNYuZHBLpk

This will help!

[Seph]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVNYuZHBLpk

This will help!

great video.

Though I have never had much desire for flipping, and typically default to pitch mode.

[capt1fish]

Hello all,

When Flipping for Bass how are you suppose to hold/pinch the line between your fingers?

Should I be pinching it with my index finger and thumb and kind of guiding it to my target or should i be letting it glide threw my fingers/thumb somehow?

Thanks for any info

Hold the line loosely in your hand allowing the line to glide through with as little resistance as possible. How you hold the line isn't important, so long as the line glides through easily.

[fishinjim]

For straight flipping, all you need is a curved index finger.
You dont want to hold or pinch the line at all.

Starter course...
Pull your line out from between the reel and the first guide.
Position the hand you are holding that line with so that it is almost straight up and down with your palm facing you.
Coming from the reel, your line should go across your palm and around your index finger, then cross back behind the rest of your fingers on the way back to the first guide.
Put a bend in your index finger to cradle the line and flip away.
All you want to do is let the line run along that finger as you flip.

Practice in the house or yard and youll have it down in no time.

The trickiest part about flipping is learning to keep your line from wrapping around your reel handle.
Youll need to be constantly aware of the potential for this to happen when first learning, but avoiding it will become second nature as you practice more.
Keeping your reel as close to a 90 degree angle as possible when flipping will help with this too.