I used to fish all the time, like 3-4 days/week for 3-4 hours. Mostly wading in streams. I never had any type of pain or discomfort at all. I haven't been as much lately, maybe like 5x a year for the last few years.

I am experiencing shoulder discomfort/burning/pain after about an hour or so of casting. It's only in the left shoulder, which is the arm I reel with, and I only feel it when reeling. It gets to the point that I can barely keep reeling and really ruins fishing for me.

your primary care doctor is an excellent place to start.
depending on your exam, there are a number of non invasive treatments that
can help:
ice
heat
home Physical Therapy
formal Physical Therapy
anti inflammatory medications

and a cortisone injection (request a small needle, lots of lidocaine, and
the shot is not painful at all)

I only refer patients for shoulder surgery once or twice a year for that type
of shoulder pain.


Any tips how to get past this? I really don't want to give up fishing. Maybe shoulder exercises? I don't know if it's just a muscle issue or something else

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by ecuavipes

Hey XW. We go into the Drs office today for the first checkup since the surgery. Hopefully we'll learn why he chose NOT to reattach the tendon that goes across the top of her shoulder. Really disappointed that he didn't do that. Says if this surgery isn't successful enough he's got to do a shoulder replacement.
I wish he could have fixed her up right this time instead of putting her through ANOTHER surgery and LONGER recovery a third time.

For the second time my wife and I have been exposed to the COVID 19 virus, not because we did anything we weren't supposed to but because someone she works with went to a Thanksgiving dinner where they were exposed and caught ,along with his whole 16 member family, to the virus. He has exposed everyone in her department and now we are in a 14 day quarantine,,, Again,,, this is our 2nd. We'll get tested tomorrow and hopefully will come back negative but People this is no joke and it's scary. Please think of others and do the right thing, it's no fun wondering if you might die from someone else carelessness.
We have done everything the CDC recommends and we've still been exposed twice.