Cider I know all to well your pain. I used to use a reel that was'nt a level wind for my leadcore line once.I hooked into a very large laker and proceeded to just reel him in not paying any attention to how the line was going on to the reel.Well you proberly can guess what happened next.About 20 ft. from landing the fish my reel frozze up,I looked at it in disbelief as the leadcore was wedged all in one spot.I had to hand line that fish in and in a weak moment at the boat forgot that this was not a bass and reached in his mouth with my thumb.You would of thought I had a pirranha on that line with all the blood that was gushing out of my torn up finger,and I still have that scar on my thumb 12 yrs later.