Mode 08 · Rig triage · start from the annoyance

It tangles, it snags, it will not hook anything. Which is it?

Every other mode here starts from a decision. This one starts from the thing that is actually spoiling the session. Pick the symptom; the causes come with the physics that produces them, one cheap test each, and an honest note on what a clean result still does not prove. A good number of them turn out not to be the rig at all.

Local-only · condition context

Nothing in triage is about whether fish are present or feeding. Every cause is about the arrangement, the equipment or the hands — the three things you can actually change while standing there.

08Triage

Something is wrong and you do not know what

Pick the thing that is actually annoying you. Every cause below carries the physical reason it produces that symptom, one test with its cost up front, and an honest note about what a clean result does not prove. Most of the fixes are adjustments; two of them are habits; one of them is a swivel.

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