Get "Flex Wrap" and just wrap your thumb.
Bill

"LD" wrote in message
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Thanks Ray, I'll try these places.
The one's I've seen have a metal piece, like a conveyor belt splicing end.
Otherwise I could make one.
I want one because, modern or not, the Penns #'s 209, 309, 113H and the
Newell 540 that we use for trolling "near shore" or out to 12-15mi in the
Gulf are sometimes quickly changed to a bottom fish rig. Sometimes a #9
or
209 is quickly changed to a "baitcast" rig. In both of those cases the
thumb can get HOT trying to prevent a backlash. I started out fishing in
the early 50's, in Galveston Bay with a Shakespeare Direct Drive on a True
Temper steel rod where the thumb was (and still is) the only means of
stopping the reel once the cast was achieved. (Backlashes were not
uncommon, usually because the pain in the thumb necessitated removing it
from the spinning spool of braided line).

Thanks Guys, for the input.
LD