What fishing gear have you lost overboard? 2024

tentimesover reply :

Sad day. After a good morning fishing I was heading back home and hit some wakes. A couple of good bounces and there goes my E21 carrot stick/Shimano Curado E overboard. It hung on the line of another rod just for a second and I grabbed for it -- but, there it went. I did have the deck strap over it -- but, the butt of the rod was facing the stern so it just slipped through (lesson well learned). The worse thing is that this is the second rig I've lost this season. I didn't even see whenever my spinning rig went earlier in the season. I also witnessed another fellow loose his rod/reel when he got hung up while his boat was moving and he didn't have the presence of mind to release the spool.

:-[ >

What kind of gear have you lost overboard?

Raul reply :

None, almost lost a bc rig many years ago ( it flew away from my hand when I made a cast, duh ! : ) but fortunately I was able to retrieve it thanks to the lure.

NewAngler reply :

I've tossed a bc in the drink while casting. Got it back. Also have lost plenty of jigs, cranks and spinners due to being shorebound. Once I got a rooster tail back that I had lost the previous trip.

Koop reply :

had a bc fly out of my hand when fishing in the rain. Thankfully I was able to snag a trebble with a net as I was only in about 10 fow, was snagged though and couldn't get it up so I went swimming. I'm not above getting wet to save a few hundred $$.

I also lost my favorite thermos a few weeks ago... worst of all is I hadn't poured my first cup of coffee yet.

RoLo reply :

Fishing from the bow, my wife set the hook on a good bass that promptly wrapped-up in the bulrushes.

I quickly laid down my rod and got right on the electric motor remote, so either her or I could reach the bass.

As the boat was closing in on the fouled bass, I heard a sickening sploosh behind the boat.

You guessed it, my lure got snagged on the bottom and yanked my rod & reel over the transom (what a bonehead).

Well, we got the bass, but despite 30 minutes of grappling with treble hooks, we never recovered the combo.

It was a Daiwa Light & Tough rod with a Shimano Stradic reel. I have since renamed that old waypoint, "Shimano"

Roger

Raul reply :

Let 's go to the Shimano Waypoint ! ;D

Kinda sad when you think about it.

dave reply :

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None, almost lost a bc rig many years ago ( it flew away from my hand when I made a cast, duh ! : ) but fortunately I was able to retrieve it thanks to the lure.

I did the same thing years ago fishing in February. Cold and I just let go. We were able to dredge it up with a rattle trap.

Grey Wolf reply :

Nothing yet.

Lund Explorer reply :

Lost a bow mount trolling motor once. Running on Lake Michigan and one rouge wave submarined me into the wave ahead. When the bow popped back up the trolling motor was in the down position, but just for a few seconds before it blew four ugly holes through the front deck.

Thank God I had good insurance!!!

Shimmer reply :

We were fishing on a boat house once and my buddy thought his tackle box was latched. He was wrong, everything went into the drink.

christopherjake reply :

My Partner lost a G-Loomis SJR842S GL3 and a Sustain 1000FD when she somehow her gear overboard while trying to net my 12'' bass. Not sure what she was thinking trying to net a 12 incher.

You should have seen the look on her face when she was looking for her missing gear on the boat. It wasn't funny at the time but it's funny as heck now.

Bassn Blvd reply :

Haven't lost anything overboard except shiners, live shrimp and fish.

cart7t reply :

Kicked a rod and reel off the deck once.

I've had a couple combo's go overboard running down the lake.

Had a MK powerdrive TM go off the front of the boat (that was a good thing).

I had a double sided Plano tackle box go overboard while running the lake. One side flipped open spilling crankbaits all over the place. I was able to save that along with all the lures.

Had a back pedestal seat somehow come undone and leave the boat on the way to the lake.

Had a dead start battery once, went to swap one of the trolling motor batteries for the dead one and the start battery slid off the deck and into the lake.

that's about it.

FishinDaddy reply :

I have a 5500 C-3 on an ugly stick in Lake Harris. I set it down to help my boater land a fish and did not open the spool.

There is a Quantum on a Fenwick in West Point lake that my daughter lost while casting with gloves on. I replaced that rig and my Wife cast it overboard in Saddle Creek. I had bought a grapple hook and recovered the second one.

I lost a Berkely worm bag in Kissimmee on a rough day. I saw it fly out but it sank before I could get back to it.

RoLo reply :

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Let 's go to the Shimano Waypoint ! ;D
Kinda sad when you think about it.

You're right Raul, it hurts every time I park on those numbers.

I tried several more times to dredge up that combo, but to no avail

Remember the time when Avid found a whole tackle box that went overboard?

He recovered it several years later, but as I recall,

he wasn't able to salvage much more than corrosion and barnacles

Roger

CHEVYRIDAZ reply :

My girlfriend once accidentally tossed one of my set ups overboard in about 29ft of water! It was a Shimano Crucial and a Revo SX with fresh fluoro and a brand new Rapala deep diver! None of it was ever used!!!!

Sfritr reply :

I once thought of tossing my wife overboard :-?

Then I realized she could swim..... :

I have had a partner go overboard when we hit a stump using the trolling motor. He just happened to be leaning over to pick something up and I just hit the motor and away he went. The look on his face was PRICELESS and ticked all at the same time.

John B reply :

Well, not exactly overboard, but....

On the way back from a camping trip a few years back, I set my main tackle box on top of the pop-up camper after we put it down for the return home. It was one of those big plastic boxes with 4 or 5 3700 size plastic bins as well as other holders, almost all of my lures, crankbaits, spinners, etc.

You guessed it, pulled away from the campground, drove about 30-40 miles before terror gripped me...I forgot to take the box off the top of the pop-up. Not sure why I didn't see it in the mirrors, whatever the case, we drove back, retraced our drive, no box. Several hundred dollars of fishing lures gone forever.

Some fisherman got lucky that day.

bilgerat reply :

Other than decorating trees with lures on occasion, I haven't really lost any gear overboard (yet).

However, when I was a kid bank fishing for carp and catfish I had my pole pulled under by something big. We got it back after casting for it with a big treble hook.

tentimesover reply :

Thanks to all for sharing your pain. On the way to dinner on the lake last night I saw this 52 footer parked on a seawall. It put my loss of the Curado E/carrot stick in perspective for me.

dodgeguy reply :

i have 2 $500 combos at the bottom of my lake.hope the fish are using them and laughing at me.

Fishing Rhino reply :

Amazingly, for a bonehead like me, nothing yet.

But, I did sleep at a Holiday Express last night.

I came very, very close to losing my trolling motor off the stern, because in my haste to get fishing, I failed to tighten the clamps.

I had been fishing for almost two hours when I turned the motor at ninety degrees to make a turn, and turned it on to full speed. The clamp on one side lifted off the stern.

Quickly shut it down, and tightened it down.

I might not have lost it, even though the water was quite deep. I don't use alligator type clips to connect it. I use the eyes that came on the cables, and clamp them tight with the nut on the battery stud.

bass or bass ? reply :

After switching the battery in my hand held spotlight, I opened my boat locker lid and the battery slid off the lid into the lake. That's it .

Fat-G reply :

You know, I'm really likin' the Carrot Stick/Curado Combo I fished out of the Lake last Saturday ;D ;D ;D

tentimesover reply :

I'd be pleased to know that someone was getting good use of it -- but, tell me how you recovered it from the 60 fow open channel????

Fishifishfisher reply :

Hi All,

I'm new in this forum. This is a great thread to get started on. I lost a GLoomis back bouncer with a Quantum Cabo over the side of a charter out of Morro Bay, Ca when a huge swell through me into the railings. My choice was to hang on to the rig and go overboard, or stay on board and lose the rig. Additionally, I've lost a pair of swim fins and a set of waders at the lake I fish...just drove off with them on the ground right next to my truck.

ValkyrieRider reply :

At a Lake about 45 min from my house, on a random dock....

Lost a quantum pole with a shimano spinner while catfishing one time. I was on a dock in about 20 ft of water and threw out a buncha chicken livers and turned around to bait my other 2 rods and I heard *ziiiiiing*

Turned around to see my pole shoot out off the dock. I tried to find it and wrote it off.

A week later my Dad calls me and says "You'll never guess what I caught at this dock on LOZ today?!"

I said "A Shimano Spinning reel on a Quantum pole" he says "How the hell did you know that!"

True story.

kms399 reply :

I have never actually lost anything but I once had a buddy new to fishing toss a g-loomis imx with a shimano curado in the lake as he was casting the thing actually floated long enough for me to get the boat over to it. a couple weeks ago I was a bit hung over in the morning and my brain was pretty slow, I had just casted and was reaching for the trolling motor when my rod jumped out of my hand right into the lake, as I reached for it the rod jerked again just out of my reach I hit the TM and was able to grab the rod and when I went to set the hook there was nothing there.

done reply :

I nearly lost my grandfather twice....but that's about it. Only thing I can think of that would be more miserable than my grandfather after losing a fish would be him falling in after he loses a fish. LOL

Skunked in DR reply :

A pair of Revo polarized glasses. Was fishing out of a canoe, got snagged, was looking down into the water and heard sploosh...I had completely forgotten that I was wearing sunglasses.

I always use idiot strings now.

Sam reply :

Just some lures, so far.

Came close with rods and reels a few times, but managed to save them before they went into the water.

wagn reply :

haven't lost anything yet.

Almost lost my trolling motor. I pressed down on the power button and instead of the motor pulling the boat the motor pulled the trolling motor right off the front. Somehow the bolts had actually cut in half. I managed to grab it before it went down and re-install it with quality hardware later.

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