Ever run over all your rods?

[Arcs&sparks]

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]

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]

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]

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.

[Deleted account]

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]

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]

41 minutes ago, 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]

46 minutes ago, 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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

No, but I have been tempted to. 

 

I have thrown them in the lake out of frustration before.

[Arcs&sparks]

24 minutes ago, 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]

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]

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!

[Deleted account]

4 hours ago, 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.

4 hours ago, 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]

16 minutes ago, 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.  

11 minutes ago, reason said:

Consider myself lucky

Definitely. But man what a crappy day.

[Fried Lemons]

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]

No, but the fish have run over my heart and soul a time or two.

[Jeff H]

8 hours ago, 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]

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]

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]

10 hours ago, 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]

20 hours ago, 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.