Lost Equipment 2024

matuka reply : 

Any stories about lost equipment? What kind of stupid maneuvers have you commited to result in a rod or such swimming to the bottom of the lake?

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Catch and Grease reply : 

My grandpa backlashed a curado and threw it in the lake lol... We never did get it back....

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BannedForSpamming-1234555 reply : 

^^^

haha

 

When I'm in the rush to leave, I remove my lure from my line and place it on the floor. I then forget to place it in my tackle box when I have all my gear packed to leave.

 

This happened twice last year.

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Big C reply : 

Once while kayak fishing with my brother, I dropped my paddle in the middle of the lake. I jumped in after it, but since it was a cheap push-pole style paddle it sank before I could get to it.  Meanwile he was fishing on the exact opposite side of the lake I was at, and it took him forever to find me literally up a creek without a paddle.  Luckily the wind blew me within a few hundred yards from the boat ramp, so it was a short tow to the ramp, but the wind was so strong I was freezing by the time he showed up.

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Master Bait'r reply : 

Thankfully no.  Just a close call or two.  

 

 

I've actually found somebody else's anchor when I needed one the most though haha- we were getting blown all over the lake and no sooner had I said "Man, we need an anchor bad!" than we noticed a yellow rope coming up from the depths...  Paddled over and wouldn't you know it- an anchor.  Just when we needed one.

 

 

Definitely one of those "You know you're livin' right when..." moments haha  

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Cameron211 reply : 

When I was a kid dad took me bank fishing. Got all ready 2 poles a piece in the water. Dad looks and says watch the poles im going to the bathroom. Bad idea for a 8 year old, that rather throw pebbles in the water because lack of patience lol. Sure enough his pole goes in and I tried to grab it, but didnt make it. He comes back sees me dirty. And just said thats why we watch our poles lol. Never saw it again. Thanks dad for leaving me to maintain 4 poles at 8 lol. But mostly thank you for not yelling, scolding, or saying told ya so. Just gave a solid and educational reason why we always never know when a bite might happen. We still get a laugh to this day about it. Great memory and conversation while fishing together.

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RSM789 reply : 

A couple of years ago, a big catfish grabbed the jig I was fishing and began dragging my boat all over the cove I was in.  It was mid-afternoon and a couple sitting on a nearby porch watched as Mr. Catfish gave me a tour of his home.  After a 5 minute battle, I wrestle the catfish out of the water to the applause of the couple.  The husband yelled out "How big is it?".  I grab my Rapala digital scale, hook Mr. catfish under the gill and just as the scale reads out "14 lb., 3 oz.", the catfish gives a major tail flip, ripping the scale out of my hand.  Catfish & scale end up in the water.

 

I can only imagine the catfish swimming up to his friends, showing off the digital scale & saying "Look what I caught..."

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Catch and Grease reply : 

  On 2/28/2015 at 1:56 AM, RSM789 said:

A couple of years ago, a big catfish grabbed the jig I was fishing and began dragging my boat all over the cove I was in. It was mid-afternoon and a couple sitting on a nearby porch watched as Mr. Catfish gave me a tour of his home. After a 5 minute battle, I wrestle the catfish out of the water to the applause of the couple. The husband yelled out "How big is it?". I grab my Rapala digital scale, hook Mr. catfish under the gill and just as the scale reads out "14 lb., 3 oz.", the catfish gives a major tail flip, ripping the scale out of my hand. Catfish & scale end up in the water.

I can only imagine the catfish swimming up to his friends, showing off the digital scale & saying "Look what I caught..."

If I'm weighing a big fish I've gotten to where I just put them in the net I have and weigh them that way then subtract the nets weight... I got tired of waiting on angry bowfin to stop thrashing haha.

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RB 77 reply : 

I have to come clean about this, maybe after getting it off my chest I will feel better about it. I have "rolled" my kayak twice. First round about $150 worth of misc. gear. The second time stung much worse. A brand new Calcutta 200B paired on a brand new Falcon Lowrider CB Rod. Ouch! At least I am safe and thats all that matters. I know people have lost much more. It's all material possesions anyway. Stay Safe brothers!

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Choporoz reply : 

I've got a new kayak and these stories concern me a little.  I know there's a risk to rolling, but I 'assumed' it to be rather uncommon.  I bought some leashes and assumed that they'd be on the paddle and rods at all times.  Is it impractical to keep a leash on a rod while using it?  Certainly, I'd plan to keep them leashed when behind me, but I suppose when in use or in a forward rod holder, they wouldn't necessarily be tied down. 

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BassnChris reply : 

I did absolutely nothing to cause this loss:

 

http://youtu.be/tJlpKJYAhLQ

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Fishing Cowgirl reply : 

My Halo rod and Curado reel now rests in 10' of water, in the Butler Chain of Lakes. I do plan on going back there with a treble hook retriever and my down scan to try and find it. I fish with gloves and they had gotten wet as they do. I made a cast and watched the rod slip out of my hands onto the deck, then into the water. I ended up in the water trying to get it, but lost it anyway. I now have those rod cushions that float.

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buzzed bait reply : 

i've never rolled the kayak (knocking on wood now), but have lost some gear in a not so intelligent maneuver.....

i have to admit that i've lost 2 combos from my kayak.  once was while casting, i hooked into the rod in my rod holder and jerked it out, somehow freeing it from the hook and sending it to the depths of about 20' of water.

a second time in a scary event altogether that involved a dog, a deep cycle battery, trolling motor and kayak catastrophe.  I could have easily drowned, easily lost everything in the kayak (including the kayak).  essentially the battery fell into the water and the cables remained connected and nearly rolled it, but just enough to fill the kayak about 90% full of water.  somehow in all of this ordeal i had a BRAND NEW abu garcia combo fall into the water (roughly 15').  i was so scared that the yak was about to sink that i couldn't even attempt to recover the lost combo....

 

2 lessons learned:  i no longer keep a rod in the rod holder on my right side since i cast that way.  and i will never try to use a trolling motor and battery until it is rigged properly and not just thrown together like i did on this instance.

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buzzed bait reply : 

  On 2/28/2015 at 3:42 AM, Choporoz said:

I've got a new kayak and these stories concern me a little.  I know there's a risk to rolling, but I 'assumed' it to be rather uncommon.  I bought some leashes and assumed that they'd be on the paddle and rods at all times.  Is it impractical to keep a leash on a rod while using it?  Certainly, I'd plan to keep them leashed when behind me, but I suppose when in use or in a forward rod holder, they wouldn't necessarily be tied down. 

 

i've never used a leash of any sort and mainly because i do not want those extra points of entanglement....  even at that, i don't think i would be able to fish with one connected to a leash.  i mean i see how it will save your gear, but just seems like a pain otherwise. 

as far as the paddle goes, mine floats so no worries there.

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Choporoz reply : 

  On 2/28/2015 at 4:08 AM, BassnChris said:

I did absolutely nothing to cause this loss:

 

http://youtu.be/tJlpKJYAhLQ

sorry, but I couldn't help laugh at that....you must get your trolling motors from the same place that Bill Dance does

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RoLo reply : 

My wife was on the stern deck fighting a bass, when her fish got locked-down in bulrush canes.

Quickly, I laid my rod on the bow deck and backed-down on Lois's fish with the electric motor.

In my haste, I didn’t retrieve the lure all the way, and left it dangling in the water.

It apparently got snagged in weeds, then I heard a sickening splash as it was dragged into the lake!

I cast the area with a grappling hook for about 1/4 hour, but to no avail.

The rod was an inexpensive Daiwa Light & Tough, but the reel was a brand new Shimano Stradic.

This was an old hotspot I had named “Toadstool”, but since that day we call that spot “Shimano” 

 

Roger

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Sam reply : 

Going  back to the stone age when I was in my teens and joined my uncle and two cousins on his 48-foot Chris Craft yacht he used for saltwater fishing.

 

We would catch those big gafftop catfish and speckled trout and put some in the skiff's live wells as we were fishing to harvest them for dinner.  We pulled two 16-foot skiffs with live wells to use for shrimping and fishing so we could leave the big boat secured or anchored and fish the reefs and marsh areas in the skiffs.

 

My uncle was so proud of the new lantern he had bought the Friday of one of our weekend trips.

 

After we returned to the boat from fishing all day Saturday, he told me and my cousin, Harry, to take the lantern and put it in the skiff so we could see to grab the catfish and speckled trout out of the live well and knock them out with the handle of a screwdriver, remove their heads and gut them. We were to then pass the fish to my uncle and he was going to cook them for dinner.

 

Everything went well as my cousin and I made sure each of us threw the innards over our side of the skiff at the same time to keep us balanced. And the lantern worked great!

 

Worked great until we got confused and we both leaned to the same side of the skiff with the lantern to throw our guts away and oops!  The brand new lantern, only used for six or so minutes, hit the water.

 

We knew we could not go into the Gulf to search for it a it was dark and the sharks were in the water after the fish innards we threw overboard. So I got a rod and reel and my cousin stood up in the skiff and tried to snag the lantern.  This is when my uncle came onto the back deck and asked how we were doing. We said we were doing great, me sitting in the skiff and my cousin standing up with the rod and reel trying to snag the lantern.

 

My uncle then stopped, looked at us, and said, "Where's the ^*%& lantern?"

 

My cousin looked at him, smiled, and said with a straight face, "Don't know, Unk, but I am sure we will find it soon."

 

I almost fell out of the boat in laughter; my other cousin who was on the boat deck watching this fiasco fell over in tears; and we got cussed out really good by my uncle.

 

Never did find that d**n lantern.

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Dylcook91 reply : 

Two summers ago I was out on a kayak that I had at the time. I was on a lake that has a feeder stream that is about 5' wide and very deep. There was a thunderstorm the day prior so the water was raging. I...like a dummy decided I was gonna go upstream to where it opened up to a pond where the bigger fish are. About half way up the current pushed me to one of the sides, in the second I hit the branches sticking into the water a giant deer stood up (was sleeping in the bush) and takes off running scaring the c**p out of me. I turned the kayak away and didn't realize a branch had hooked onto one of my rods in the rod holder. As I turned it picked it up and out. I hear it splash in the water and as I turn to look, it shot of into the dark current never to be seen again.

Luckily it was not one of my more expensive combos...was about $80 though.

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jeff25 reply : 

Fishing one day with my brother in law in his jon boat. We both had several rods and it was a bit crowded. Well we knocked one of my rods over board. He went swimming looking for it, in the meantime I tied on a deep diving crank bait and snagged it on the first cast

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hawgenvy reply : 

Was fishing with a guide on Lake George in New York, for lake trout. I think we were trolling with a down rigger. I pulled in a rather big trout from very deep, and there was a second hook in its mouth, attached to a line. We pulled in the line, maybe a hundred yards of it, and lo and behold, it was connected to an expensive rod and reel that we recovered. Our guide recognized the rig, which belonged to a friend of his, another guide on the lake. After laughing for ten minutes, he called his buddy with the news.

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hawgenvy reply : 

One more. I was fishing one windless autumn evening with a friend of mine in the Lousiana marsh, for speckled trout and red drum. This was back in the 1970s, before cell phones. You could rent a skiff with a small outboard back then from Blackie Campo's place in Shell Beach, about an hour east of New Orleans, where I was a student.

 

We had motored over to Hopedale Lagoon and on into the endless brackish waters south of it, a pretty remote location. We fished around the reeds, pilings, and oyster beds for a couple of hours -- without a single bite. It was time to head home. But we couldn't get the outboard to turn over. The sun was setting soon. My arm was getting pretty sore pulling that cord. We played with the choke and the fuel bulb, to no avail.

 

We decided to wait five minutes and give it another try. I gathered my strength and pulled once more as hard as I could. The motor's handle hit the underside of my expensive wrist watch and unlatched it. The gold watch flew off my wrist. We watched it sail through the air in a high arc, and kerplunk into the water. And of course, the motor did not start.

 

What then ensued was ten minutes of silence. As the sky darkened we just sat there, kind of thinking, I think.

 

I half-hardheartedly pulled the cord one more time. It started. We motored back to Campo's in the twilight.

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Sam reply : 

Hawgenvy, I remember Blackie Campo's.

 

We fished the Biloxi marsh but never found your watch.

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blackmax135 reply : 

I have many zebco 33 rod and reels all over my little local lake. Now I fish with bait casters they actually last longer.  Went fishing some time last summer and my fiancé decided she wanted to try bass fishing so I had all my bait casters sitting out on the deck.  So when it got dark we took out the catfish reels and were going to try our luck with the cats.  Casting the second line out, when I rear back the hook grabs my newest abu Garcia rod and reel (not the most expensive) and slung it as hard as I could; not yet realizing I had a rod and reel as bait now, then WAMMMMM right in the back of my fiancé's head the reel hits her, she starts screaming at me and I'm screaming at my reel COME BACK!!! I'm going to see if I can catch that thing one day.

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matuka reply : 

My buddy and I fish fast. Land  fish, Unhook with the pliers, toss the fish back , toss the pliers toward the middle of the deck and back to fishing. Along comes tournament day so Dave's excited. He lands a fish, smoothly unhooks it, places it in the livewell and as if choreographed, tosses my pliers in the water. It wasn't till he picked his rod up and fired a cast that he realizes what he had done, then has to fess up. We laughed it off.

 

Another time I hung a deep diver in the rocks in about fifteen feet. Out comes my retriever, a monstrosity of a bulldog garnished with a bunch of short chain links. It is attached by braided Dacron, a Quantum baitcaster and a cutoff rod. Quite a project and pretty heavy. I unleash the thing on the crankbait and retrieve it. Reeling all the line back on to the "thing" I see an untidy loop or three that I must correct. I'm drifting out and I push the freespool. As the retriever sinks, all the loops bind up, catch,  and yank the whole rig out of my hands back into the lake......gone

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matuka reply : 

  On 2/28/2015 at 4:17 AM, Fishing Cowgirl said:

My Halo rod and Curado reel now rests in 10' of water, in the Butler Chain of Lakes. I do plan on going back there with a treble hook retriever and my down scan to try and find it. I fish with gloves and they had gotten wet as they do. I made a cast and watched the rod slip out of my hands onto the deck, then into the water. I ended up in the water trying to get it, but lost it anyway. I now have those rod cushions that float.

I keep a chain stringer in the boat for this purpose. Open up all the hooks and rig it up on a flippin stick with braid. Try dragging it thru the area in question. It has worked twice for me. 

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troutbum1 reply : 

When I tried braid for the first time. Tackle store put it on a spinning reel, I went plugging for stripers from a boat. I had braid falling off the reel in great loops on every cast. Bad part is I put everyone in the boat on fish. Fishing was hot, I got so ticked i threw the rod and reel and braid in to the Susky flats, still out there.  

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hawgenvy reply : 

  On 2/28/2015 at 3:32 PM, Sam said:

Hawgenvy, I remember Blackie Campo's.

 

We fished the Biloxi marsh but never found your watch.

Thanks, anyway! Campo's was a great deal: a sturdy little skiff with a 15 HP outboard, an anchor, and a live well full of live shrimp, all for around $25. And only a few minutes from Lake Borgne's bounty of specks and reds. Ah, the good old days!

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hawgenvy reply : 

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whitwolf reply : 

I have shared this story before and will skip writing it in its entirety. I was fishing with a buddy in his boat and he was quite Insistent that we be there on time. No big deal as I think It's the right way but his on time meant a half hour earlier then the stated time. Again no big deal as I knew this. 

 

Long story short I had decided to take the car instead of the truck and Instead of gathering my gear and loading It the night before as I usually do,  I did It that morning In a hurry. I stopped by quick-mart and got a a couple of sausage biscuits and was off to his house to load up and go, all told I drove maybe 15 miles. I park the car, went around the back of the car, and I see my sweatshirt, wormbags, and a jacket sitting on the trunk. I was heart sick as the box with all my crankbaits, spinnerbaits, tools, and terminal tackle was not there. Yes, In my haste to get going I left them on the trunk. 

 

He left for the ramp while I re-traced my route in hopes of finding my box. I didn't and went back home to gather some more tackle and he picked me up at the ramp. As I was getting my stuff secured I bent over and my brand new sunglasses flew off my hat an into the water. I watched as they were sinking out of sight. Honestly I shouldn't have fished that day as my mind was elsewhere. In total I lost around 300.00 that day.

 

It was a valuable lesson and one I wouldn't wish on anybody. I kind of laugh about It now, kind of. lol 

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Patrick Morrow reply : 

I have had some close calls with too tight drag, but it was years ago and It haven`t been problem in past years.

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kcdinkerz reply : 

  On 2/28/2015 at 4:17 AM, buzzed bait said:

i've never rolled the kayak (knocking on wood now), but have lost some gear in a not so intelligent maneuver.....

i have to admit that i've lost 2 combos from my kayak. once was while casting, i hooked into the rod in my rod holder and jerked it out, somehow freeing it from the hook and sending it to the depths of about 20' of water.

a second time in a scary event altogether that involved a dog, a deep cycle battery, trolling motor and kayak catastrophe. I could have easily drowned, easily lost everything in the kayak (including the kayak). essentially the battery fell into the water and the cables remained connected and nearly rolled it, but just enough to fill the kayak about 90% full of water. somehow in all of this ordeal i had a BRAND NEW abu garcia combo fall into the water (roughly 15'). i was so scared that the yak was about to sink that i couldn't even attempt to recover the lost combo....

2 lessons learned: i no longer keep a rod in the rod holder on my right side since i cast that way. and i will never try to use a trolling motor and battery until it is rigged properly and not just thrown together like i did on this instance.

did the same thing lucky I was in shallow water and got my rod back, since then I put floats on all my rods.

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kcdinkerz reply : 

last year I had just bought one of the king cat combos from cabelas and on the first trip. Used a tree branch to hold my rod up, I was 10 foot away jigging for bluegills when I heard the bells on my catfish rod jingle. Turned around and saw my new combo go into the water.

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Senko lover reply : 

I wade in after my lost stuff from the bank if it's close. I can't afford to lose too much. Typically this only happens in the warm months, but not always .

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Dogface reply : 

  On 2/28/2015 at 3:33 AM, RB 77 said:

 I have "rolled" my kayak twice. First round about $150 worth of misc. gear. The second time stung much worse. A brand new Calcutta 200B paired on a brand new Falcon Lowrider CB Rod. Ouch!

 

 

That's a double "ouch"!!

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fisherrw reply : 

I've lost expensive cranks but that's it.

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Bluebasser86 reply : 

Fishing out of my 2 man I threw my anchor without realizing it was wrapped around both rods I had with me. Thankfully after quite a bit of swimming and feeling around on the bottom in the muddy water I was able to recover both, one of the rods was broken but at least I got the reel back. 

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RB 77 reply : 

  On 2/28/2015 at 3:42 AM, Choporoz said:

I've got a new kayak and these stories concern me a little. I know there's a risk to rolling, but I 'assumed' it to be rather uncommon. I bought some leashes and assumed that they'd be on the paddle and rods at all times. Is it impractical to keep a leash on a rod while using it? Certainly, I'd plan to keep them leashed when behind me, but I suppose when in use or in a forward rod holder, they wouldn't necessarily be tied down.

No need to worry, it is rather uncommon. I've kayaked hundreds of times and only had the two incidents. Thats two more than I would like, but i'm safe and thats all that matters. The first one was similar to Buzzed Baits situation of hooking and casting a combo off the yak fishing a local reservoir. I tried to grab it from the water (instead of netting it like I should have) and lost my balance. The second time I was fishing a blind bluff corner in one of our local saltwater bays and the U.S. Navy was running some exercize drills in thier gunboats which came screaming behind me. By the time I saw what had happened it was to late. I took a large wave over the bow of the yak and into the drink I went. Lessons learned. Be aware of your situation at all times just like in boat or float tube. Stay safe out there!

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RB 77 reply : 

  On 3/1/2015 at 10:44 AM, Dogface said:

That's a double "ouch"!!

Yeah, the Calcutta and Lowrider stung quite a bit! I probably catsted that combo less than a dozen times! Good grief!

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DILLY07 reply : 

I was out prefishing upper river in Dubuque for Fall State for Iowa Bass Nation. I was pitching and flipping sweet beavers in lily pads, little tight pockets. Had a huge bite. It was cloudy that day, had my brand new oakleys on my hat bill. Hooked set that so hard, and didnt realize my oakleys went flyin in to the water backwards. I was like I just bought that last week. Oh well, bought a new one, same exact ones.

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RSM789 reply : 

This story is about equipment, albeit not fishing equipment, but it still happened on a lake.

 

My parents had a lake house when I was growing up and one day my older brother found a floating golf ball.  He grabs my dad's 9 iron & hits the ball off our dock (which was covered with astroturf) into the cove about 80 yards away.  We had an old surfboard there, so I paddled out & retrieved the floating golf ball.  He hit it another dozen times or so, with me retrieving it until I told him I wanted to try.

 

I climb out of the water, take grip of the club, swing...only to watch the club fly out of my wet hands out into the middle of the cove.  I knew I was in big trouble, my dad really valued his golf clubs.  Alas, my older brother did what older brothers are supposed to do, save the day.  He paddled out to where the club entered the water & dove down (it was about 20 feet deep).  Thirty seconds later he emerges holding the club.  He said the air in the grip made the club literally stand on end on the bottom, making it easy to find.  Dad was never the wiser.

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matuka reply : 

  On 3/2/2015 at 2:10 AM, DILLY07 said:

I was out prefishing upper river in Dubuque for Fall State for Iowa Bass Nation. I was pitching and flipping sweet beavers in lily pads, little tight pockets. Had a huge bite. It was cloudy that day, had my brand new oakleys on my hat bill. Hooked set that so hard, and didnt realize my oakleys went flyin in to the water backwards. I was like I just bought that last week. Oh well, bought a new one, same exact ones.

I guess this isn't so uncommon and I can now admit it! Same exact deal down the sweet beaver, except I'm going for largies in grass. That fish wasn't worth the $125 though.

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matuka reply : 

  On 3/1/2015 at 6:02 AM, kcdinkerz said:

last year I had just bought one of the king cat combos from cabelas and on the first trip. Used a tree branch to hold my rod up, I was 10 foot away jigging for bluegills when I heard the bells on my catfish rod jingle. Turned around and saw my new combo go into the water.

Here's a similar incident. My friend lives in Hawaii. They went fishing crevalle Jacks. They cast a heavy weight off the rocks then tighten up and prop the rod. A snelled live mullet is hooked and clipped to the mainline by a snap, and zip-lined into the water. A jack crushed his bait as soon as it hit the water and took the whole rod and reel with it, oh well.. A week or so later the same jack was caught by a guided fishing boat on the other end of the island. The rod and reel still attached. By hook and by crook, my friend got his equipment back from the  guide, but it was hopelessly beat the shreds on the rocks and coral.

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Catch 22 reply : 

I know a fellow [not me] that left a very expensive rod /reel combo  laying on the cap of his truck while securing the other tackle.He never saw it again.

 

A rod/reel "found" post was listed on another site that I use. A few days later I overheard a yaker talking about leaving a combo at the ramp while he loaded up. I hooked the two of them up and all was well. 

 

I found a snow skiing outfit along I-95 yrs ago. I searched the gear for ID  but didn`t find any thing.I looked again to find a tiny piece of paper with enough info to contact the owner. He was  3 states away and it took 2 months to come together. I wasn`t at home when he showed up because I would have refused  the "C note" he rewarded me with. I found out that he was  high dollar surgeon, so that eased my conscience.

 

It pays to have ID in or on your goodies. I had a T bag returned twice  already. Getting old is tough

C22

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hoosierhawghunter reply : 

Funny story but 100% legit.

I was probably 10 or so. And when me and my brother would go fishing with dad, he would just hand us some of his combos to fish with. He gave me a brand new shimano reel and bps rod and a spinning rod. I fished with the shimano all day because i was just in awe at how awesome it was. We came up on a point so i decided to pick up the shakey head... laying the new setup down on the boat i started casting the shakey head. We go passed some submerged grass which grabs the lure on the new.setup and drags the combo into the water and down to the depths. My dad looks back and says. "I know that wasn't my new rod and reel" i said it was...

So he went on getting pretty mad and lecturing me about how i never let lures hang over the side of the boat on a rod thats not in my hand.

Fast forward about 3 hours and AT LEAST 100 yds away from where it went in... dad sets the hook, and pulls up that combo. Lays it down on the deck and keeps fishing. Me and my brother just look at each other like what just happened lol. Crazy but true...

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primetime reply : 

if I kayak is not meant to stand in, don't get greedy and go for a kneel etc.... I could of lost all my equipment and I would have still felt like I won the lottery when I made it back to sure, glad I was near land when it happened...I probably should not use my kayak for stealth at night and follow large splashes hoping they are bass. I realized in the water that your feet feel super vulnerable at night and kicking in a panic...

 

I bring my less expensive gear and most tackle is stored away but getting in was not an option, and 2 combos gone, so now I just need to make sure I never attempt to stand again for the 4th time in past year, but getting shut out for 4 hours when you imagined fish every cast at work makes you do crazy things.

 

I never feel crazy since I know a guy who dives for golf balls at night with scuba gear and some ponds he frequents have legit T-Rex's in them that have to be hungry on a golf course. The bass fishing is not so great, and not sure what it eats, but dude has scars and stories...Good guy to know...He knows where the bass hang.

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Robeng reply : 

Lost a Gold Zebco 33 to Lake St Clair when it was a brand new gift from my bride at the time.  Wave hit and slipped out of my hands...yes, you watch it sink and can do nothing.  lesson learned.  (at least it wasnt an expensive setup - still it upset me to lose that gift and she has since departed this planet)

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ThePackMan reply : 

One of my fishing buddies was absolutely terrible at tying knots. I must have shown him how to tie a Palomar knot 15 times. Most of the time I ended up tying on his baits. Well when I was busy he was on his own. On at least 3 separate occasions I witnessed him tie a knot, proceed to trim what he thought was the tag end then toss his bait off the side of the boat as he picked up his rod as he watched his bait sink and his line blow in the wind. Luckily one of these times was a hollow body frog so he could scoop it back up. plus there's all the baits I've seen go sailing a mile due to his poor knots.

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