So how many folks here have tackle on the bottom of the lake?

[WTL]

Went fishing 2 days ago and lost my pride and joy Garcia Morrum SX to the bottom of wheeler lake in heavy current. I was not able to snag it back up. Its gone.

Who else has lost stuff? Come on, make me feel better about my loss by sharing yours... I'm kinda down right now, lol.

[dampeoples]

Ouch, the Morrum is a nice rig

I did save a previous partners' rig once. He with a pyramid sinker and a 5/0, me with a 1/8oz sinker and a 3/0 Very next cast was a 5+ pounder

[Deacon]

ok this should make you feel better......i lost a Loomis GLX with a Curado 200 at Spring Lake 2 yrs ago. That was a expensive mistake!

[zooker]

well i did lose a new abu 5000 and a 7' fenwick hmx rod in tuckertown. a penn 9 and a penn newport rod in ablermarle sound. a crappie jig shooting rod and zentile reel some wheres on flat swamp. and almost recently lost my cranking stick with diawa procaster-almost lost it- got lucky my buddy snagged it about 3 feet down in 20 feet of water..

countless crankbaits,jigs,worms,carolina rigs, and at least one $7 spinner bait blade have found bottom of the lakes i fish.


zooker

[skeeter944]

i had a friend that i fish with and he found this rod by a dock at thi lake and about a month later,whenfishing in his boat at that dock,he dropped it in the water by the dock! i have bunchs of worm hooks and spinnerbaits at the bottom of our local ponds.

[DEbass'n]

When my brother was in high school, he and our cousin took two girls they know fishing in dads 10 FT jon boat. It isn't the most sturdy of boats and you can probably guess what happens next. Yup, the boat tips over and they lost all the rods, dads tackle box, a cooler and a Wolverine steel toe boot. They did manage to pull the boat to shore before it sunk though.

[skeeter944]

man,i bet they never saw those girls again rofl!

[Rebbasser]

Closest I've come so far is once when I dropped the anchor, which I don't do very often except when it is REAL windy. I turned around and my C-rig rod was gone. Thought I'd lost it closer to the bank, so pulled the anchor up and the rod came with it. Must have been living right .

[ToPwAt'R GuY]

I lost a box filled with crankbaits last summer. Ive had more luck catching stuff though. Over the years Ive pulled up multiple rods, an anchor,chairs,and a pair of waders.

[Rodman_Rob]

i lost an entire tackle box one night, and countless lures from snags.
surprised the epa hasn't fined me for all the lures I've lost.

[Christopherkeene9]

Lots of various tackle on snags and $120 in lures at the bottom of Snake Creek in Islamorada. about $20 more on the Islamorada Hump. $100 off of Port Canaveral and that's about it

[FlyRod]

Originally Posted by Rebbasser

Must have been living right .

Ha! Heehee! "Living right". Yeah, you betcha!

But seriously, folks and folkettes...
Circa 1969 a buddy, making a sloppy backcast with a heavy spoon, yanked a brand new top-o-the-line reel and custom built Fenwick that was lying across my legs (That was close!) into Milford Reservoir KS (Well, whaddya expect from a Medical Field Service officer? Only fished with fellow horse soldiers after that.) Never saw that one again.
Circa 1980, same thing happened at Calaveras Lake (near San Antonio) 'cept this time the culprit was an old HS buddy and it was, you guessed it, a custom Fenwick UL with a new Mitchell 408 (the French built one, good stuff.)
A few weeks later a friend who owned a small tackle shop called and asked if I'd come help him in the store ASAP. I arrived and he summoned me into the repair room. There was my rig, none the worse for wear. JP had snagged it while fishing and completely tided it up...wowser! I bought lunch at an Indian restaurant, with Thai beer!
The best/saddest one....
Just before graduation from Dear Old Douglas MacArthur HS, an adorable young sophomore FEMALE trombone player from the band and I (I was an adorable lead trumpeter, and she had a case of Senior Worship and Trumpeter Lust.) were canoeing in Landa Park Lake (New Braunfels).
She had asked if she could wear my class ring for the day. Lacking a chain, she put it on her middle finger and kept her fingers folded into a dainty fist to keep it on.
As we paddled along, with me singing love songs, accompanying myself on the cymbals, she spotted a large carp finning lazily in the Martini-clear water. "Look, Oh Great One," she chirped," a big fishie." Of course, she pointed at the bottom-feeding behemoth and, you guessed it...Splash! One MHS ring with genuine fake sapphire, gone!
She was heartbroken and contrite. She swore she'd pay for a new one. Did I allow that? Of course not. But I took it out in, uh, trade.
Now the amazing part: Five years later, one of my old band buddies went to Landa to put out some crawfish traps and fish from the bank. About the time he was ready to pack it in, his rod bent and he grabbed same to discover that a nice catfish had accepted his challenge.
When he got home, he cleaned the critter and, Lo and Behold...
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My RING was NOT in that fish!

True Story! Stranger Than Fiction! You Heard It Here!

And a very Boomer Sooner to all.

FlyRod
Soothsayer to the masses.

[skeeter944]

rofl at flyrod!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[flbassman]

Lmao......

[texasbasser]

i have lost 2 rods while catfishing when i was like 7 years old, i didnt know what drag was back then lol.
trhey were only 30 or 40 llar rigs though, it still hurts

[lizardsrule]

Well if tourney fishing, you might as well count on me losing 2-3 crankbaits LOL. Lost one of CC's crank earlier this year due to a Gar(ARRRRGGGG). Lost and broke too many other baits to count. I don't even get ticked about it anymore, that's fishing, and a reason to go out with the monkey rotfl.

Lizards

[dampeoples]

I like the monkey

[FlyRod]

Originally Posted by dampeoples

I like the monkey

Mmmmmmm...Monkeeeeee! It's wot's fer evening chow!
Ate it in SE Asia...not bad, not bad at all.

Wait...it mighta just been a short and skinny Viet Cong. Either way, mighty tasty.

(Note: No simians were harmed in the making of this post.)

Fly"Hannibal"Rod

[flfireman]

Does an ex wife count as tackle??

[1FASTLASER]

Originally Posted by flfireman

Does an ex wife count as tackle??

LMAO @ firefly. You gotta tell me the recipe for that one. On the true subject I have lost a few combo's not tying them down to make a run to the next spot and just recently lost a full box off bass assasins cause I dint put the box back in the bag.

[jrward]

A few years ago while I was away at work, a distant cousin came by wanting to go fishing. My wife at the time didn't think there would be anything wrong with letting him use my 12ft. flatbottom , four rods and my takle box. The boat was sturdy, I had never come close to turning it over, needless to say...he found a way . I found my boat but almost 500 dollars in takle was lost. Oh! it's been three years and I have yet to see my cousin. TRUE STORY.