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Location: Kronenwetter, WI | A couple weeks back I dropped my old favorite jerkbait rod and reel overboard....not an expensive rig, but the dirt worn into that cork is irreplaceable. I won't go into my efforts to retrieve it, but they involved GPS waypoints, small coffee cans, cement, 10" nails and rope. No dice. Couple years back a custom 9 footer and a Luna went missing in the black of night after releasing a fish. Couple years before that a container of plastics went missing somewhere between the landing and my first spot. Seems I have around $1200 safely tucked away at secret locations in various lakes.
Someone keep me company here....let's hear it.
Oh and BTW, just ordered a 7-9 TI Jerk Rod. My 9" TI telescoping sold me on those rods.
Edited by Cowboyhannah 10/19/2012 11:08 PM
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| maybe a couple baits wow that seems extreme!
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Location: Maplewood, MN | I few musky baits, a bass spinning rod and reel, and a ton of bass lures. |
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Location: WI | Not as big of a loss as yours, but I went to rinse off my bump board after catching a nice fish this summer and accidentally flung my favorite cowgirl into the water. I went from high to low in about a second. |
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| I have a few hundred dollars in baits.. I lost a bass spinnng rod and reel today.. A few cell phones.. Sunglasses. The usual |
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| Threw a 10 in,weagle the first day on my brand new 400TE! Got a backlash and the rod and reel flew into the river! I fished a Mag Dawg for 45 minutes and up she came from the Deep! It was like catchin a 50 incher My Friends! LOL
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Location: Victoria,MN | muskie24/7 - 10/20/2012 4:30 AM
Threw a 10 in,weagle the first day on my brand new 400TE! Got a backlash and the rod and reel flew into the river! I fished a Mag Dawg for 45 minutes and up she came from the Deep! It was like catchin a 50 incher My Friends! LOL
Brian : )
Pounders work better in these situations, you can cover more ground in less time.lol I know this from experience. I have had this happen to me, x 2! i retrieved both combo's in less than 10 minutes. Of course putting a waypoint down immediately helps. |
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Location: Wakefield, MI | Aqua Vu has a camera with a grabber on it, kind of like the claw game at a restaurant. It's expensive at like $700 but if you can recover 2 or 3 rods it may be worth it. |
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| I dumped a rod holder a few weeks ago. I got distracted putting a spinner bait on my leader, I threw the spinner bait into the water and began reeling the slack, realizing I never attached the lure to my leader. That sucked. |
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Location: Ogden, UTAH 10 minutes from pineview reservoir | 3 weeks ago dumped my brand new curado 300 e attached to my okuma jerk rod! worst part was it was on my birthday! |
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| Lost a Beckmann after netting a fish by myself. I now put pipe insulation in the handle. |
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Location: On the River | had a back lash and lauched my favorite rod and reel at the time into the river had it slip away after snagging it once. put waders on and took a garden rake in a snow storm the next day to retrieve it. No luck |
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| Haven't done it myself, but I've seen a few combos go overboard, usually after netting a fish. Slimy hands + adrenelin + backlash = rod flying through the air. I did lose a bright orange Manta in 3 FOW on a bright sunny day to a backlash once. We drove around in circles for 20 minutes looking for that stupid lure. How you can not see a bright orange lure on a big sandy flat in the sun I will never know! |
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| Last month I threw a medusa with my Abu Garcia and TI Rod. It backlashed and ripped the rod out of my hands and in to the water. It hesitated briefly at the surface. I tried in vain to cast my other rod to snag it. I missed and it sank to the depths. I was tired. No excuse. I have had several offers to make me a "Dummy Cord" like I used in the military from friends. |
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Location: Minnesota | i have a beckman pen net on mille lac lake somewhere between hennepin island and mac's twin bay my new one has expandable foam in the handle and in the rim now it floats |
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| I lost a brand new spinning combo many years ago, shore fishing in a strip mine lake. It was one of those nothing days - hot, flat, nothing biting. I had resorted to live bait fishing in hopes of scoring a fish. Nothing. So I finally set my rod down and walked over to the truck (which was parked less than 20 feet away) to get a beer. Ahh, beer. At least I can sit here catching nothing and enjoy a cold one. As I was fumbling around my tackle box looking for a bottle opener I heard a splash behind me. I turned around just in time to see the butt end of the rod dissapearing under the water. I tried to run down the hill to catch it but it was too late. Spilled my beer, too. About an hour later, still mourning the loss of my brand new rod and reel, I was casting about 20 yards down the shoreline and snagged something. Crap. Somebody's old fishing line. Grabbed the line with my hands and started pulling. It's pulling back, WTF, a FISH? Yeah, that's a fish. And a big one at that. As I am trying to hand line this fish a slip bobber appears. It was at that point I realized what was going on - that's MY line! I should be pulling on the other end! Got the rod back, covered in muck and weeds. Landed the fish. Big Carp. Only fish I saw all day.
Another time I was fiishing a local forest preserve lake, walked down some steps they had fashioned out of railroad ties and started casting. You know those #*^@ deer files that circle your head when you're standing on shore? BZzzz Bzzzz, Bzzzz. Get out of here you %6$*%! Holy crap, there's two of them? WTF?! Then I looked down. My shirt, my pants, and my arms were covered in bees. peeed off bees. I remember running and shouting a lot of obscenities, and flailing around like an idiot trying to get the stinging bees off my arms. I ran right past this poor elderly couple holding hands on a nice leasurely stroll. They looked pretty horrified, as one would expect when a 220# man comes running out of the woods swearing his head off. The lady looked at me and asked what happened. All I could manage to say was "BEES!" (Think Homer simpson here) As I started to apologize for my language both of them started hopping around and dropping F bombs themselves. I don't know if any of you have ever encountered an angry swarm of bees before, but my advice is do NOT stop running, because they will catch up with you, or anyone else that happens by. We stood there watching the cloud of bees flying around where I had just been fishing for about 15 minutes. When I went back, I discovered that my rod wound up in the lake, with the line and lure up a tree, tackle box dumped over, lures everywhere. Turns out there was a huge nest in one of the railroad ties. Got stung about 15 times. Now when I see bees? They get dead. |
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| The skeg on my 2 month old Etec now lives on the bottom of a lake in Vilas county...
Esox Addict, I feel your pain; my brother-in-law and I kicked up a bee hive last summer while mountain biking north of Duluth. Those little monsters got under our helmets and stuck with us for three miles!
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| Lost a nice $300 dollar pair of Costas in a lake but hey still have the case with the cleaning cloth as a kick in the !@# reminder. I loss about 6 lures(some home-made creations as well) with leader a year all snagging structure or rocks. Hey this year my trolling motor decided to just stop working. It's just how it goes on the musky hunt. Imo, it's just a little offering to the musky god's. |
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Location: Oregon | Last spring while fishing for sturgeon on the Columbia River my boy dropped a nice rod and reel into the river. While I gave him a verbal beating he rigged up a salmon rod and started casting a treble hook with a weight on top of it. A few casts and he hooked the fishing line! The problem was when he dropped the rod the spool was free so we slowly started wrapping the line around a pop can as we brought it in. About a hundred yards downstream the line finally came tight and we ever so slowly started lifting the rod up and eventually grabbed it. We wound all the line back on the reel, anchored up again, dropped a bait down on the rod and within an hour hooked a huge screamin fish about 8 feet in length that took 45 minutes to land! It was fun.
RM
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Location: NW WI | Besides kicking or throwing a few baits overboard, KBob will remind me of the time I forgot to engage the freespool on my Abo 7000 isHN and threw the whole works overboard. Dragged the bottom for a while without any luck. I called the dive shop in Minocqua and hired a guy to come out and look for it. When I thought he wasn't going to find it, up he came with the rod! Best $100 I ever spent! |
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| casted off 2 new pounders on back to back casts...i have alot of cowbells i have also casted off trying to bomb cast against wind... i bet i have over 7 cowbells laying on the bottom. |
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| My son launched a nice phantom into the lake by not closing the snap. He did a jig and plastics in the next spot we worked. He launched a rod & reel overboard, and I was surprised when I saw the cork floating the whole rig. We were able to grab it quick enough. Put my spinning rod overboard, and grabbed a mag dawg, and a 8 foot rod, and figure 8 in 7 feet, and found it. Happens to everyone. Last 2 years on vacation my wife has somehow hit the clip on the anchor to drop the anchor into 15 feet without the rope. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I lost my mind in early July more than a decade ago. |
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| Tekota 500LC on a glass catfish rod while casting a carolina rig
Stradic 2000 on a mid-level graphite rod while handling a winning largemouth in a night tournament ($100 prize partially offsets loss)
Canon Powershot G4 camera
prescription sun glasses
men's and boys baseball caps
three Berkely plastic rod holders (those things come out of holder too easily)
lots of needlenose pliers and a few bucktails
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fish from canoe often which explains some of this mess
i've never been able to dredge anything up despite lots of effort, perhaps because I fish deep
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| $1500 wedding ring...tough to live that one down.
Was fishing Lake Tarpon here in Florida and my trolling motor wasn't dropping. I tapped the bottom unit with my hand to get it disloged and my ring went flying off my finger into about 9 feet of water. Didn't try to go in after it, considering there was an ~8 ft alligator sitting on shore about 150 feet away. |
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| My buddy dropped his Beckman overboard into a Canadian shield lake last year. After spending 14 months at the bottom of the lake---we hooked it on a double 10 this year-----the net had some algae growing on it and the handle was somewhat oxidized----but after some cleanup------she lived to land more monsters from that lake----gotta love GPS-----Jobu |
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Location: Pelican Lake/Three Lakes Chain | sworrall - 10/21/2012 1:14 AM
I lost my mind in early July more than a decade ago.
I will vouch for Steve, he did lose his mind...but it was waaaaaayyyy long ago.
Lost two Big Kahuna nets over the years and a pair of Ocean Waves. I am waiting to catch the fish on LOTW's that found the glasses, it would make for a cool picture.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | THAT explains it. I was on the water once and saw a Beaver wearing Ocean Waves sitting on a log. That animal was stylin'. |
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| Andy Myers Lodge, end of August this year, second day of a seven day marathon. I was in the back of the boat and felt the boat shift, usually a precursor for my buddy giving a fish the business on the eight. I look down, see a boat side fish with my buddys cowgirl in its mouth. He loads the rod for the hookset, the lure flies out, whips up, and hits me alongside my neck. Out of sheer panic, I reach up with both hands and grab the lure so he doesnt accidently send the hooks home into my jugular. Thats the moment I dropped by Big Nasty with an LJV into Eagle Lake. First time either of us talked about it. Still sucks. |
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Location: Des Moines IA | 10 inch Perka on like the third cast on the first rock bar on George. Jeremy backlashed a Shack Attack trying out my new 7000/Okuma rod, I lunged to save it with the rod in my hand, and did, but lost my cell phone in about the same spot on George. Entire lower unit (all that was left was a small piece of the case) on a rock hump on Big Muskellunge. I saw 2 of Slamr's trolling combos hit the drink on our way in to the Harbor on Lake Michigan in some pretty rough stuff. Also threw one of Slamr's Frankie/400Te combos in to the drink on the Fox Chain, luckily I was quick enough to grab it without going in the 38 degree drink myself! |
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Location: Antioch IL | Lost the Big Kahuna this year on lotw in 40 feet of water. With 35 mile an hour winds and hit a big wave and there it went out of the boat so fast . Have not got a muskie yet. That net must have had all the good karma for the boat. |
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Location: Missouri | Some days the river giveth and some days it taketh away! |
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| Seen my body through his brand new slopmaster over the boat without hooking it on, and he also lost his oakley sunglass's.
I have lost a few baits getting them snagged and what not but nothing to extreme yet. |
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Location: oswego, il | I am surprised to hear nobody lost stuff becuase it bounced out of the boat runningballs to the wall in big chop. Nothing like chasing loose tackle in the boat so someone can prove their manhood! |
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Location: McGuire AFB, NJ | St. Croix Legend Tourney (split grip) paired w/a Calcutta 400B in Davy Jones locker at Kinkaid! After I reminded my buddy to strap it in....we hit a wave...he didn't strap it and in slow motion I saw it get tossed...I wasn't very happy needless to say...sunk like a ROCK! |
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| I was the 'gear' that went overboard.
Let me set the stage; early September, Northwest Ontario, windy, two footers and a camp boat with engine problems. We were about a mile from camp and were headed back because the engine would not run below half throttle. We started to cross the open water and the rear electric trolling motor started to bounce off its mount. As I reached to grab it, I pushed the tiller handle and the bow turned, hit the next wave and the boat spun 180 degrees, I launched. My partner did not know where I went under because of the spin of the boat, but he saw my WHITE SOX hat floating.
When I came to the surface I thanked the Lord that he was still in the boat. He was able to electic motor to where I was and I climbed up the outboard motor to get back in the boat. It happened so fast.....
To answer the obvious question, no I was not wearing a life jacket.
Be careful out there,
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| I was getting ready to launch and i had my boat pardner hand me the the 3 hp. kicker so i could put it in the the boat. When i leaned to get it, i had a hold of the dockside but, had to let loose. I ended up in the lake holding that 3 hp. rather hugging it. I got out, shook off and drained the motor and fished the rest of the day.
I read alot of postings on tossing rods and reels in the drink. After throwing baits all day with your hands drying out it makes it tougher to hold on. I use a fingerless neoprene glove on my left reel hand which helps keep a good grip. If you can't find the fingerless, then get a pair of regular such as Hodgeman and cut the fingers out. |
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Location: Blaine, MN | 2 buddies plus myself in the boat one summer day, when the gentleman in the back decided to use the solitude to clear his conscience... He informed the angler in the center of the boat that relations had been had with the guys ex girlfriend prior to them dissolving the relationship. The only victim of the ensuing fight was my 7' premier with a newer 400b... right to the bottom of the lake, never to be found. It still makes us all laugh on a yearly basis |
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| We almost lost a cell phone and a passenger on Monona a few years back...
"Dude, if that phone rings one more time, I am going to throw it in the lake. And then I am going to throw you in after it!"
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| Just lost a landing net on the weekend off the back |
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Gear Gone Overboard