Hello Gel Spun, Goodbye Finger?

June 8, 2006 By: Marshall Cutchin

Though the story doesn’t include gear specs, we’re guessing that the only way Moldy Chum buddy Walt Baily cut his finger to the bone so quickly was that he was using Gel Spun backing. “The story will be forever be burned into my memory by the bubble trail leaving the reel as it, attached to the rod, screamed through the water with my hand no longer attached to it. Matters are only made worse by the witnesses.”