Great Day Trout Fishing ..bad Day For The Gear

[Pat3697]

caught a few real nice size trout this weekend. Lost 2 brand new rapala lures... and stepped on my pflueger reel handle and snapped it. : (

im sure many of you have stories of good fishing days even though u lost some of your favorite gear. Any stories id like to hear. Maybe

it'll make me feel better about my reel. lol

[flyfisher]

You can probably order a new handle.....

 

I have donated plenty of gear to the river gods but it has been a little while since I made a donation  The worst one though was a shimano stradic attached to a st croix mojo bass....wasn't real pleased on that one but it happens.

[Bluebasser86]

Two weeks ago we had a really slow day fishing and then to add insult to injury I broke a rod swinging a freaking white bass into the boat 

[Bankbeater]

Earlier this year during one trip I lost 3 spinnerbaits, 2 jigs, and got backlashes in two reels that were so bad I had to cut out the line with a knife.  Not one of my better memories.

[AssassinAngling]

I've lost so many cleos in the niagara river it isn't even funny.

[Pat3697]

haha man I thought my 6 dollar lures were bad.. id be real ticked if I lost a whole rod and reel.

I have seen people with me drop em 100 ft deep into the lake. its tragic.. thanks for the stories guys

I accually do feel better haha

[Insanity]

While bank fishing a small lake here with a buddy of mine. He leaned one rod against a bush behind him and was casting with the other. I missed a fish and he was being a smart butt and tried to hurry and throw on it before I could get mine in and cast again. Only he hung the top eye of his other rod while drawing back to make a mean cast. Man that sucker went half way across the lake. As the line snapped about half way threw the cast. Haha.

I've done the same thing a couple of times. But got lucky and stopped the cast or it staid hooked so I could reel it back in. Man that's embarrassing to do with people walking by.

Years ago when the reels didn't have infanant reverse. I had a five+ pounder slam a spinner bank rite as I was about to lift it out of the water scared me so bad I really slammed the hook set. Which broke the little plastic switch (diawa) that stopped it from going backward.

Which resulted in a monster birds nest and sore fingers as the crank smacked them as it went backwards. Left me with ten feet of line out on a mean fish. I decide maybe I could step off in the water and give him a little. Didn't work and he broke off. Left me smacking the water with the rod and cursing like a sailer. Only to look up and see a large group (family) watching. They never seen the fish only me as they rounded the bend.

I didn't even try to explain.