Sure, happens a lot.
The worst is when you get a really good throwline shot and the string goes down the guts of the central spear.
I generally pull through a 12mm 3 strand rope next, much more in dia it will get harder, however a 10mm with good breaking strain would be even better.
Use a thick strong throwline, I got some old thick stuff.
Anyway, when you tie the throwline to the rope dont do it right on the end like 99% of people do with a tree. That's coz the "stub" end of the rope will surely stab into and between fronds. Tie it about 1m down the rope so when pulling through the rope sort of does a loop helping get through tight fronds.
When pulling the rope through try to get as far away from the palm as you can. This is so there's less force pulling the rop into the head which makes it get stuck. If you have another person have them "feed" the tail of the rope from further away, or if doing on your own have the tail far from the palm over another tree branch or something.
If there is another person around I have them whip a huge hump up the rope and time the pull for when that lump is at the tree top. Now if you start to get stuck, keep pulling. I find a stick or something and get wraps on it and heave like crazy whislt stiull trying to keep far away. 90% of the time you will punch through.
A good tip is shoot the throwbag way over the top of the palm, double the height say, that way there's no pulling the thin throwline into the head.
