Ever run over all your rods? 2024
Arcs&sparks reply :
Last year at this time my buddy and I went fishing in his 10 foot Jon boat, we used a boat dolly we made to wheel the boat down a trail to access a pond. We did well and had a great time. We got back to my place after dark and he set his rods down in a safe spot next to his truck so we could unload the dolly and my gear out of the back. We hung out in the garage for little while after. So he goes to leave and I heard a noticeable crunching noise but thought it was just loose rocks in the gravel driveway.. He came back a couple mins later with a concerned look.. he just ran over his rods........... 
We gathered the remains and laid them out on the work bench. It wasn't just the rods. The tire went directly over all four rods AND REELS, all new to that season. Nice combos too. No survivors... We had em laid out on the operating table looking for salvageable parts almost in tears.. All junk.
So, we've all lost nice lures in a tree or broke a rod tip. But anyone dump all there tackle into the water or kick their rods overboard? What's the worst dumb mistake you or your buddy made while fishing?
wisconsin heat reply :
I've had a rod go overboard, I had just caught a bass on a fluke and landed it, took the hook out, my dad took a picture of me, released the fish, and go to pick up my rod....wellll where is it? not anywhere on the boat, I must have set the reel end over the deck and it slid off into the water. Spent the next 30 minutes swimming down to about 8/9 feet looking for it in some weedy water. Luckily it wasn't too expensive, an Abu vengeance with a black max, later that day my brother accidentally snapped the tip off of a really nice daiwa rod I had.
Arcs&sparks reply :
Haha you swam after it? That sucks.. I've thrown my rod in the water so many times while landing fish in small boats, luckily always in super shallow water or with the lure and line still in my hand at least.
68camaro reply :
This summer finally pulled the trigger and got off the bank by buying a kayak. The first day, the first hour was fishing in mid-day hot humid southern weather and went to whip a crank out and lo and behold rod went with it, Ex6 with Curado I had cleaned and tuned over winter. Spent time dragging treble hook to find it but never did. Now when I cast I hold rod real tight.
BassWhole! reply :
Totaled 6 offshore outfits, probably $6k worth or so, sounds bad right? well, they happened to be in the console rod holders in the boat, which was on the trailer, being towed by the pickup with me driving at the time when we rolled 6 times. All totaled, silver lining, injuries consisted of bump, bruises, cuts, and a mild concussion, and I was alone in the truck.
DogBone_384 reply :
I’m lucky. Since 2011 I snapped a Veritas in my truck’s tailgate, shortened a *** casting rod with a passenger window, and lost two of my favorite setups off my kayak in deep water (different trips).
A bummer, sure, but I fish once or twice a week.... so I’ll write it off as accidental carelessnes.
Dwight Hottle reply :
On 10/29/2017 at 9:21 PM, reason said:Totaled 6 offshore outfits, probably $6k worth or so, sounds bad right? well, they happened to be in the console rod holders in the boat, which was on the trailer, being towed by the pickup with me driving at the time when we rolled 6 times. All totaled, silver lining, injuries consisted of bump, bruises, cuts, and a mild concussion, and I was alone in the truck.
Doesn't get any worse than that.
Arcs&sparks reply :
On 10/29/2017 at 9:21 PM, reason said:Totaled 6 offshore outfits, probably $6k worth or so, sounds bad right? well, they happened to be in the console rod holders in the boat, which was on the trailer, being towed by the pickup with me driving at the time when we rolled 6 times. All totaled, silver lining, injuries consisted of bump, bruises, cuts, and a mild concussion, and I was alone in the truck.
tell me you had good car insurance.
Bucky205 reply :
I have had several rods go over, the majority were rescued. I keep a large treble hook wrapped with lead rope in the tackle box for that purpose. LOL, I don't know how many I've closed rod boxes or doors on, or snapped unhanging a lure. Getting fish out of heavy cover takes a large toll as well. The replacement accidental insurance that some stores offer is a wonderful thing.
doublest reply :
Destroyed[Lost rod and reels!]Here's a story that's almost unbelievable.Back in the early 1960's.Our family was on an annual trip to a small lake in SE Ontario.My father, Born with a birth defect that left one leg almost uncontrollable, was fishing one afternoon with my mother. The spot where they were fishing was about in about 25 feet of crystal clear water. My father tried to reach across the boat to pick a can of pop from a cooler, and in the process, his bum leg reflexes and kicked an almost brand new Pflueger Nobby mounted on a likewise almost new Conolon rod overboard. 25 years later, My mother and younger brother paid a visit to the lady who owned the farm on which the lake was located. The lady asked my mother and brother about my father losing his rod and the location. She went into a shed and came back with the outfit. A pair of divers had visited the lake the previous summer and found the combo right where he had lost it. The rod, other than the guide wrappings was still in pretty good shape. The reel other than the Cortland camo line was still in perfect condition. After a tear down clean and lube, it worked and looked as new. Regrettably, I sold it to a guy who is still using it.
ohboyitsrobby reply :
Got a falcon lowrider 20 jerked out my hands setting the hook this summer. Guess my hands were wet and it decided to run when I decided to try and set the hook real hard cuz it'd been a long night and I was frustrated. Watched it swim away in 20ish foot of water with brush piles everywhere. Never got it back.
burrows reply :
Striper took my ugly stick and abu Garcia cardinal spinning reel many years ago rod slipped from my hands when I slipped in the water.
ww2farmer reply :
No, but I have been tempted to.
I have thrown them in the lake out of frustration before.
Arcs&sparks reply :
On 10/30/2017 at 1:08 AM, ww2farmer said:No, but I have been tempted to.
I have thrown them in the lake out of frustration before.
Hahaha I grew up doin a lot of skateboarding. It's common for guys to get mad and break their board. I was thinking about that the other day, there must be guys who break their rods too? I wanna see it cause that's hilarious.
Gundog reply :
I started out fishing as a kid at a little pond at the edge of my home town. The pond has mostly catfish and carp released by the old timers that brought them back from the river. As a kid I hung around a bunch of other kids from the block we lived on. We would travel as a pack down to the pond and fish and explore. I still remember one of the kids, Danny being lent a rod and reel by his big brother. He told him if he lost it, he'd get a beating. When we got to the pond everyone casted in and set their rods on forked sticks we had stuck in the mud. Of course, being kids we were soon running around, not really paying attention to our rods. I remember looking at the rods from a different side of the pond and noticing that we were missing a rod. Sure enough it was the rod and reel belonging to Danny's big brother. We all jumped in the water feeling around with our feet. Luckily Danny found it and went under the water to retrieve it. It still had the carp on the line.
NHBull reply :
2 years ago, I caught a rod.
under a bridge, I caught a 2 lb bass....when I got it to the boat I saw there was another line attached.....to that was a kids spinning rod.....must have been dropped off the bridge.
Funny as hell!
BassWhole! reply :
On 10/29/2017 at 10:03 PM, Dwight Hottle said:Doesn't get any worse than that.
Consider myself lucky, the truck looked like it had been run over by a tank, the roof collapsed 1/2 way down.
On 10/29/2017 at 10:12 PM, Arcs&sparks said:
tell me you had good car insurance.
Yeah, had Geico for the truck and Progressive for the boat, both were surprisingly good. Didn't help that I had to leave on deployment a couple of weeks later. Had "agreed upon value" coverage on the boat, which I included the electronics on.
Arcs&sparks reply :
On 10/30/2017 at 2:32 AM, NHBull said:2 years ago, I caught a rod.
under a bridge, I caught a 2 lb bass....when I got it to the boat I saw there was another line attached.....to that was a kids spinning rod.....must have been dropped off the bridge.
Funny as hell!
I watched a guy catch a rod at a local bridge, it wasn't too suprising cause a lot of people and family's fish there, what WAS surprising was that the rod he was fishing with was also caught there lol.
On 10/30/2017 at 2:40 AM, reason said:Consider myself lucky
Definitely. But man what a crappy day.
Fried Lemons reply :
I have a sad story to share as well. I had just gotten a shiny new reel and I headed down to the water excited to try it out. It had rained the night before making the rocks slippery as can be. In my lack of caution I slipped and fell. I had two combos on me. One rod had snapped just above the first guide and the new reel had a nice bit of rock rash right on the shiny new side plate. The rod was a very nice rod shipped from abroad just a month ago.
Sword of the Lord reply :
No, but the fish have run over my heart and soul a time or two.
Jeff H reply :
On 10/30/2017 at 1:08 AM, ww2farmer said:
I have thrown them in the lake out of frustration before.
I've not thrown any rods that I recall but have tossed a couple ABU Garcia Ultra Mag XLT's that pushed me too many times. That was quite a few years ago though.
Further North reply :
Never driven over any...but was out on the Bighorn River a few years back and we were fishing a nice seam with good sized trout working a seam about 50 ft. out.
I switched up from a nice new 3 wt. St. Croix with a brand new Orvis reel on it to a 5 wt. and had started out 100 ft. or so above the drift boat, which we'd anchored to shore behind us.
What was working was to get a double nymph rig out there, let it drift a few times, catch some fish until they shut down on that spot, take about 5 steps downriver and do it all over again.
After several moves, I went to launch my rig, felt a tug on my back cast and heard my friend Dave yell something and turned around just in time to see my brand new wt. rig flip out of the drift boat and into the current...I'd snagged one of the line guides on my back cast...
Know what you can't do fast enough? Wade through 50 feet of thigh deep river to get to your fly rod before it drifts out of reach and sinks...
Russ E reply :
the deck on my former boat was even with the top of the boat. there was very little lip.
lost a few rods by accidentally kicking them overboard. also broke the tips off of several rods, when motoring up to a dock.
when I bought the boat I currently own, having a lip to keep rods from falling overboard was high on the list of necessities
IndianaFinesse reply :
On 10/30/2017 at 1:35 AM, Arcs&sparks said:Hahaha I grew up doin a lot of skateboarding. It's common for guys to get mad and break their board. I was thinking about that the other day, there must be guys who break their rods too? I wanna see it cause that's hilarious.
Google "Michael Iacconelli going ike throwing rods" he tosses a rod or two in the drink about every time he does poorly or loses a big fish.
Russ E reply :
On 10/30/2017 at 11:42 AM, IndianaFinesse said:Google "Michael Iacconelli going ike throwing rods" he tosses a rod or two in the drink about every time he does poorly or loses a big fish.
watched major league fishing today. Mr Iconelli saw KVD catching fish and commenced fishing right next to him.
then later when he caught a fish he ran around the deck yelling and shaking the fish around for a couple minutes.
chances are that fish did not survive.
Kinda negates the premise behind major league fishing, immediately weighing and releasing the fish without putting it in the livewell.
this post went south. it has nothing to do with the ops original post
must have been half asleep when I posted this.
OCdockskipper reply :
I was fishing a small lake with 2 friends about 30 years ago during a warm summer day. There was a hump with a brush pile on it about 20 yards from the shore in a cove & it was loaded with bass. So that all three of us would not be on top of each fishing the same spot, I walked around the side of the cove and waded out a bit in order to make my casts at a 90 degree angle to theirs.
I was about waist deep in the water and had caught a couple of fish on a Texas rigged plastic worm. I made another cast and immediately the line began to move off. I reeled down, reared back and had completely forgot that my hands were still wet from the previous fish I caught. The rod slipped right out of my grip as the bass pulled it toward deeper water.
Instinctively, I dove under the water. Visibility was about 2 feet as I swam forward looking around. After about 20 seconds underwater, I saw the bright yellow fluorescent Stren Line and grabbed it. I surfaced, and followed the line back to the Diawa Millionaire combo. As I reeled in the slack, I found that the bass was still on the line. As I landed the fish, my buddies on the shoreline were busting up laughing and gave me a standing ovation.
Boomstick reply :
I haven't done this yet, but it will probably happen as I do stupid things all the time.
Frisbie385 reply :
Yesterday a friend and I took my boat out to Smithville lake. My buddy had all of his cold weather gear that he had been shedding throughout the day stuffed underneath the passenger console. We decided to make a run and I just happened to look over to watch his nice hoodie get sucked out from underneath. We immediately turned around and trolled over to his hoodie that was surprisingly still floating. He started freaking out telling me to hurry up and get over to it. Come to find out when his hoodie was sucked out from the boat it grabbed one of the hooks on a very nice combo and yanked it in also. There was about a foot of his rod tip sticking out of the water when we got over to it. He was lucky and recovered everything
Choporoz reply :
On 10/29/2017 at 1:32 PM, Arcs&sparks said:...... got back to my place after dark and he set his rods down in a safe spot next to his truck .....
Every time I launch before dawn, or return after sunset, I'm reminded of my father....was nearly 50 years ago on every hunting trip when I was young, that he drilled into me...over and over....that nothing is set down anywhere between the boat and the truck in the dark...ever.
So, while I've had some brain-dead rod incidents...and tipped my kayak in a swift river....I've never run over any gear
burrows reply :
Never say never
RPreeb reply :
51 years ago (summer 1966), I spent that summer working for the Forest Service in The Swan River valley in Montana, south of Glacier National Park. A friend and I would usually take at least one of our days off and hike back into the Mission Mountains fly fishing. I was a pack a day smoker then, so on a 5 mile back country day hike to some pretty remote lakes, I always made sure I had enough smokes for the day.
On one of those trips, I was fishing a big log jam at the outlet stream of the lake. Water was about 6 feet deep, and about 50°. I was crossing a log and managed to step in some slime on a wet part of the log. As I got back to dry wood, apparently some slime from the wet area was still on my shoe. My feet went out and I was dropping into the lake. Without even thinking, just reacting and I still don't understand it, I dropped my flyrod and grabbed the pack of cigarettes out of my shirt pocket. I held them over my head as I hit the water, high and dry. I swam to a safe dry spot and put them and my lighter on the logs, then swam back, dove down and recovered my flyrod, safe from nicotine withdrawals for yet another day.
My buddy just about went into the water himself, he was laughing so hard. In the end, all that I did was get wet and scare a few fish.
DINK WHISPERER reply :
I would cry for days after! Well, assuming I make it past the initial heart attack i would suffer!
the reel ess reply :
I guess I'm doing pretty well. I've broken a couple cheap rods. One with the tailgate, both my fault. I've dropped the sideplate of a Johnny Morris reel in water that was too deep and cold to go get it. BPS replaced it for the minimum reel maintenance fee of $19.95.
nosdog2 reply :
On 10/30/2017 at 1:08 AM, ww2farmer said:No, but I have been tempted to.
I have thrown them in the lake out of frustration before.
Did you save the waypoints?? LOL!
BrackishBassin reply :
On 10/30/2017 at 1:35 AM, Arcs&sparks said:Hahaha I grew up doin a lot of skateboarding. It's common for guys to get mad and break their board. I was thinking about that the other day, there must be guys who break their rods too? I wanna see it cause that's hilarious.
I’ve seen Iaconelli do it.
Arcs&sparks reply :
On 10/30/2017 at 11:42 AM, IndianaFinesse said:Google "Michael Iacconelli going ike throwing rods" he tosses a rod or two in the drink about every time he does poorly or loses a big fish.
Haha, I googled it. I then googled his name with "skateboarding";
everythingthatswims reply :
I was running my boat on Lake Anna last winter, when my hat flew off my head. I turned the boat around and luckily got to it while it was still floating, I like that hat!
Then my buddy said "where are your Costas?"
IndianaFinesse reply :
On 10/31/2017 at 8:36 AM, Arcs&sparks said:Haha, I googled it. I then googled his name with "skateboarding";
You want to have a good laugh, look up a video of ike breakdancing after the weigh in at the bass master classic, when he won. It should be noted that the weigh-in director of the time told ike to do it though.
SuperCorona reply :
I turned my 7' finesse rod into a 6'8" rod with the living room ceiling fan the other night. The real sad part was that I was in the process of getting up to turn the fan off to avoid that very unfortunate accident. The rod was laying across my lap and when I got up....grrrrrrrrr
N Florida Mike reply :
My dad drilled into me about being careful with my Rod and reels.I can only recall 2 that I lost for good. I dont remember breaking any by accident except the 2 I broke bank fishing by throwing them after losing big fish.The first one I lost was when I had a live worm out on a dock in the river. Something grabbed it and pulled the rod out so fast that it didnt hit the water until 6-8 feet out. Water was neck deep. I got out there and felt around for awhile but it was gone.
Lost a old quantam reel and custom rod this year .When I got home in the bass hunter it was gone. Never noticed it gone but did remember hearing a splash near the boat and thinking it was a fish at the time.
Another time I was fishing a big lake just after sunup and just as I shut the motor off a bass blasted something near a cypress tree. I excitedly grabbed for a rod and when I picked it up another combo had got caught in it and it fell in the lake. My sons only rod!. So I prayed and jumped out in 6 ft of water. It was cold, windy and lake full of gators.After 5 minutes of feeling around I stepped on
it!
And a friend broke the rod that I caught my PB on as he bent it into an arc and asked " Is this an ugly stik " and the rod snapped.
My son though has lost several of my outfits through the years.But this post is long enough already!
Bankbeater reply :
I've never ran over a rod, but I have lost a few to car doors, and tailgates.
geo g reply :
I had a co-worker who's marriage was coming to a nasty end. He came home from work and all his rods and reels were in the drive way run over by his wife numerous times in her F150. She got 6 shimano reels and rods, his high end net, a tackle box, and his depth finder unit. I guess she didn't like him spending weekend mornings on the lake. He was happy to see her go!
Further North reply :
On 10/30/2017 at 11:42 AM, IndianaFinesse said:Google "Michael Iacconelli going ike throwing rods" he tosses a rod or two in the drink about every time he does poorly or loses a big fish.
Seems a little like a temper tantrum....
On 10/30/2017 at 11:53 AM, Weedwhacker said:watched major league fishing today. Mr Iconelli saw KVD catching fish and commenced fishing right next to him.
then later when he caught a fish he ran around the deck yelling and shaking the fish around for a couple minutes.
chances are that fish did not survive.
Kinda negates the premise behind major league fishing, immediately weighing and releasing the fish without putting it in the livewell.
this post went south. it has nothing to do with the ops original post
must have been half asleep when I posted this.
It might not have anything to do with the OP, but it's indicative of how our culture treats celebrities with special sets of rules...and lets them get away with stuff we'd not condone among our friends...it should be the other way around...they should; as ambassadors for our pastime, pros should operate at the highest level, not the lowest.
Thanks for putting the post up...those of us who don't follow the pros wouldn't know otherwise, and now we know to avoid things Iconelli endorses...
IndianaFinesse reply :
On 11/6/2017 at 10:50 AM, Further North said:Seems a little like a temper tantrum....
It might not have anything to do with the OP, but it's indicative of how our culture treats celebrities with special sets of rules...and lets them get away with stuff we'd not condone among our friends...it should be the other way around...they should; as ambassadors for our pastime, pros should operate at the highest level, not the lowest.
Thanks for putting the post up...those of us who don't follow the pros wouldn't know otherwise, and now we know to avoid things Iconelli endorses...
These are pretty much my thoughts on this subject also, except I wasn't willing to stir the pot with the ike fans on here that much..
Further North reply :
On 11/6/2017 at 11:47 AM, IndianaFinesse said:These are pretty much my thoughts on this subject also, except I wasn't willing to stir the pot with the ike fans on here that much..
They'll get over it...or they won't.
I'll be OK either way.
GorillaBass reply :
This is actually quite hilarious i'm reading this.. not the fact that 1000's are missing but yesterday when I was fishing I through my shakey head at an overhang, it got snagged.. like we all do sometimes
BUT.. as im trolling over to it, my freaking dropshot weight on another rod was hanging over the boat, ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE BAD HABIT of mine, is leaving my stuff hanging over the boat when not in use..
well, the weight wrapped around another tree limb and dragged the rod 1/4" away from dropping into some nasty heavily limbered tree ~12ft deep, my girlfriend wasnt paying attention (go fn figure) and I luckily saved it in time.. almost fell in, then almost hooked myself, burned my boat by dropping my cigarette,....
long story short, it was an intense 30 seconds and i learned a valuable lesson.
HAVE BETTER CASTING AIM! haha
Arcs&sparks reply :
Lol My buddy and I have done that same thing so many times in his little Jon boat. We are now very good about keeping tips in the boat. I bent a brand new st croix premier right in half going under a bridge, it's amazing it didn't break. It's not the best rod I own but it sure is rugged!
S Hovanec reply :
I had just delivered a brand new custom SCV and Stella. Also a SCIV and Certate, but that one is irrelevant. Plans were to head offshore and fish for deep Erie smallies.
We were 5 miles off shore in 50'+ of water. The lake is pretty calm, by Erie standards, and we we're smacking some fish. He was using his SCIV/Certate initially and decided to try out the SCV/Stella.
If you're familiar with older Lund multi-species boats, you'll know the rear deck is rather small, maybe only about 14" wide. It's quite easy to loose balance and step off the 6" to the floor of the boat, or the 3" into the splash well.
This all happened so fast that its kind of a blur. I had my back to Jim and I hear a splash. I turn just in time to see the silhouette of a Stella sinking into the abyss. Now Jim is a large man. I can say that cause I'm equally large. I also see Jim, with ninja like speed and agility, dive for the rod and scoop deep enough to get his hand under it, while never leaving the boat. Well, at least from the knees down he didn't leave the boat. I don't know how he didn't totally exit the boat, but he didn't.
He gets his composure, puts the Stella in the rod holder and says, "I think I'll fish with my Certate for a while. I won't care as much if I drop it".
BasserJim reply :
On 11/7/2017 at 1:12 AM, S Hovanec said:I had just delivered a brand new custom SCV and Stella. Also a SCIV and Certate, but that one is irrelevant. Plans were to head offshore and fish for deep Erie smallies.
We were 5 miles off shore in 50'+ of water. The lake is pretty calm, by Erie standards, and we we're smacking some fish. He was using his SCIV/Certate initially and decided to try out the SCV/Stella.
If you're familiar with older Lund multi-species boats, you'll know the rear deck is rather small, maybe only about 14" wide. It's quite easy to loose balance and step off the 6" to the floor of the boat, or the 3" into the splash well.
This all happened so fast that its kind of a blur. I had my back to Jim and I hear a splash. I turn just in time to see the silhouette of a Stella sinking into the abyss. Now Jim is a large man. I can say that cause I'm equally large. I also see Jim, with ninja like speed and agility, dive for the rod and scoop deep enough to get his hand under it, while never leaving the boat. Well, at least from the knees down he didn't leave the boat. I don't know how he didn't totally exit the boat, but he didn't.
He gets his composure, puts the Stella in the rod holder and says, "I think I'll fish with my Certate for a while. I won't care as much if I drop it".
I don't know who this Jim fella you speak of is, but he seems like quite the doofus.
To this day, I don't know how I stayed 'in the boat'. I was waist deep in the water, upside down. Center of mass and the laws of gravity say I was going for a swim and re-entering the boat via boarding ladder/climbing the engine (I don't think you had the ladder installed yet at that point??). I guess the human body is capable of some amazing things when you see $$$$ worth of brand new rod and reel sinking to the bottom the first time you use it!
BaitFinesse reply :
I was at the front of the boat delpoying a Terrova trolling motor which requires you to step down on a foot release and lift up the motor right at the tip of the bow. I had gotten off plane and still had some forward momentum but the boat drastically slowed and it costed into 30mph winds. The sudden deceleration caused me to lose my balance and ended up tip toeing on to then off the gunwhales and all over my rods on the casting deck. I ran over my rods. Later a Orochi X4 Seven Eleven snaped under a guide seat and I'm sure I must have steped on it because it was on the deck that day. Luckly Megabass replaced the rod.
bigfruits reply :
i backed over a 15 pack of beer a few weeks ago before a fishing trip. 5 survived.
doesnt come close to losing what your friend did. i feel for him!
spoonplugger1 reply :
I've got some old graphite rods that may have held up to be driven over by your truck, they survived an old school Ford Bronco in the day with some component damage and scratches, but the blanks were fine. The company is still in business and makes some fantastic light and ultra-durable graphite saltwater rods of all types.
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