Lucky, Lucky, Luck!!!

[5-Salt Fever]

Ok, so I am Sturgeon fishing today with my favorite tuna trolling rod - Seeker custom rod with a Accurate 870 Boss reel. We've fishing for couple hours with a bunch of shakers and almost but nice quite legals to our credit when...I cast over another line already soaking. In my attempt to prevent the crossover, mid-cast, I contort, point, and....drop the the whole thing into the river.

AGGGGHHHHHHH!!!! There goes $600.00 to the bottom. I thought I was going to have a stroke right there where I stood. My daughter and the neighbor boy dive for cover in anticipation of a complete meld down. Some how I manage not to un-cork a fit....but oh it burned so bad...my skin was crawling!!

After 5mins of deep breathing, meditation and comptemplation, I decide to rig a heavy cod jig and drag the river bottom in hopes of snagging the line/rod/anything (luckly for me I am lazy and hadn't off-loaded my bottom fishing tackle bag after my last outing). After 15mins of dreadging I snag the line - YESSSSSS!!!!! The rod appears from below and slowly comes to the boat. Inches from my grabbing it when, the birds nest finally releases and back into the deep she goes. 550yrds of braided line on the deck later, the rod finally re-surfaces. As I say little a prayer of thanks, one of the rods still soaking goes off proper!

Forget gently easing the rod out of the holder and timming a perfect hook set...oh no.... line is peeling off before I can put my hands to it. 35mins later and 3 beautiful surface crashing leaps, we release a nice 82in/210cm White Sturgeon to reproduce another day. Well...a guy can't really ask for more from the day than that so we pulled anchor and motored home.

Lucky, Lucky, Luck!!!

 

[Mongoose]

that is lucky, if i dropped a reel/rod that was expensive id be over board after it.... depending on the area

 

[5-Salt Fever]

Tried the overboard trick once - never again. Water is too flippin cold.

 

[KoneZone]

I was fishing the Clackamas River in Oregon near the bowling alley hole in January for Winter Steelhead. My in laws had just purchased a new 20' Duckworth and it only had 2 rod holders. I set my rod next to the motor cover when and looked away for a second to direct the new boat owner into the slot. As I turned around to see my rod in flying in mid air, sort of in slow motion. To dive after it would have been complete lunacy as there is strong turbulent water and it was about 20 degrees Fahrenheit outside. People die every year in the rivere doing far less stupid things than that. The rod was no big deal but the reel was about $ 175.00. I tried to snag it but the current was to heavy. Wah, Wah, Wah. Thats the second rod I have had stolen by a fish. That's the breaks I guess.

 

[5-Salt Fever]

I am now two for three on rods dropped/recovered.

A nice Lamiglas/Tekota 500 still sits in 8ft of water of the North Santiam. The other was bottom fishing...I grabbed that one the handle 12inches from the water.

One per year whether I need it or not is may SOP.

 

[SIR]

Never lost a rod but I put three cell phones in the chuck last summer.... wife is threatening to start buying them in six packs

Shirt pocket = very bad place to store them, keep leening over to tie mooring ropes and SPLASH

 

[battaglino]

I was fishing off of Uclett a few years ago and the swells where really bad and we got sideways in one and the boat tipped so much that the rod fell out of the rod holder but it was still attached to the downrigger line and I was able to carfully pull it up and within a min. of getting the rod in my hands I picked up a 12lb silver. Timing is everything.