Getting your reel submerged

[Dallison]

Does this happen to you? I fish in only freshwater mostly but I take it as a given my reel gets dunked more than it should. I fish alot of time wading in water up to my chest so it goes with me getting wet. Its sucks because I have some nice abu garcia reels and I don't want them getting wet. I do clean them and take care of them. When I'm in the kayak sometimes my line gets tangled up toward the tip of the rod and when I go to untangle it my reel end goes right in the water...no matter how hard I try for this not to happen it does.
Surely this is part of the sport ...or does this just happen to me

[Grilled]

I dunk my reels almost every outing. It's kinda hard not to when your trying to land a fish.

[jffoley]

It's inevitable. I rinse my equipment every time. Take them apart, clean and lubricate every so often and you should get many years of service out of them.

[surfdog]

it happens, when it does just dry clean and lube. i minimize dunking by using 2 piece rods, take it apart to get at the tip. when landing fish i try to keep a rods length of line out and hold the rod high to lead it to either a lip grip or left had of steel

[jet]

my reels spend a good amount of time underwater bc i'm too lazy to keep track of them when dealing with fish or changing lures, etc