Anybody feel that one of your traps is lucky? I have one trap that's been on fire this season and there is a back story. This season, I bought one of those ht polar tip ups from ll bean b/c I had a 10 gift certificate. I ended up paying 6 bucks and change. When I got it I noticed that a thumb screw was missing. The thumb screw allows you to adjust how far the shaft with the spool hangs below the cross bar. Without it the trap works fine but I called and asked if they could mail me a new one anyway. I was told they would look into it and get back to me. About a week later, they told me they couldn't send me just the thumb screw but would ship me a whole new one free of charge. I declined for a couple reasons. #1 would be that I'm not positive if I lost it or it didn't come with it, and #2 it wasn't going to prevent the trap from catching fish and #3 I didn't even pay full price for it to begin with. Because of reasons 1, 2, and 3, I felt that I'd be taking advantage of beans. The guy on the phone was surprised and thanked me for my honesty. Ever since then, that trap has outproduced every other trap in my arsenal and I chalk it up to fishing karma lol. It's the only one I have of that style so I'm positive it has been the biggest producer.
