Ever run over all your rods?

[OCdockskipper]

I was fishing a small lake with 2 friends about 30 years ago during a warm summer day.  There was a hump with a brush pile on it about 20 yards from the shore in a cove & it was loaded with bass.  So that all three of us would not be on top of each fishing the same spot, I walked around the side of the cove and waded out a bit in order to make my casts at a 90 degree angle to theirs. 

 

I was about waist deep in the water and had caught a couple of fish on a Texas rigged plastic worm.  I made another cast and immediately the line began to move off.  I reeled down, reared back and had completely forgot that my hands were still wet from the previous fish I caught.  The rod slipped right out of my grip as the bass pulled it toward deeper water.

 

Instinctively, I dove under the water.  Visibility was about 2 feet as I swam forward looking around.  After about 20 seconds underwater, I saw the bright yellow fluorescent Stren Line and grabbed it.  I surfaced, and followed the line back to the Diawa Millionaire combo.  As I reeled in the slack, I found that the bass was still on the line.  As I landed the fish, my buddies on the shoreline were busting up laughing and gave me a standing ovation.

[Boomstick]

I haven't done this yet, but it will probably happen as I do stupid things all the time.

[Frisbie385]

Yesterday a friend and I took my boat out to Smithville lake. My buddy had all of his cold weather gear that he had been shedding throughout the day stuffed underneath the passenger console. We decided to make a run and I just happened to look over to watch his nice hoodie get sucked out from underneath. We immediately turned around and trolled over to his hoodie that was surprisingly still floating. He started freaking out telling me to hurry up and get over to it. Come to find out when his hoodie was sucked out from the boat it grabbed one of the hooks on a very nice combo and yanked it in also. There was about a foot of his rod tip sticking out of the water when we got over to it. He was lucky and recovered everything

[Choporoz]

On 10/29/2017 at 1:32 AM, Arcs&sparks said:

...... got back to my place after dark and he set his rods down in a safe spot next to his truck .....

Every time I launch before dawn, or return after sunset, I'm reminded of my father....was nearly 50 years ago on every hunting trip when I was young, that he drilled into me...over and over....that nothing is set down anywhere between the boat and the truck in the dark...ever.

 

    So, while I've had some brain-dead rod incidents...and tipped my kayak in a swift river....I've never run over any gear

[burrows]

Never say never

[RPreeb]

51 years ago (summer 1966), I spent that summer working for the Forest Service in The Swan River valley in Montana, south of Glacier National Park.  A friend and I would usually take at least one of our days off and hike back into the Mission Mountains fly fishing.  I was a pack a day smoker then, so on a 5 mile back country day hike to some pretty remote lakes, I always made sure I had enough smokes for the day. 

 

On one of those trips, I was fishing a big log jam at the outlet stream of the lake.  Water was about 6 feet deep, and about 50°.  I was crossing a log and managed to step in some slime on a wet part of the log.  As I got back to dry wood, apparently some slime from the wet area was still on my shoe.  My feet went out and I was dropping into the lake.  Without even thinking, just reacting and I still don't understand it, I dropped my flyrod and grabbed the pack of cigarettes out of my shirt pocket.  I held them over my head as I hit the water, high and dry.  I swam to a safe dry spot and put them and my lighter on the logs, then swam back, dove down and recovered my flyrod, safe from nicotine withdrawals for yet another day.

 

My buddy just about went into the water himself, he was laughing so hard.  In the end, all that I did was get wet and scare a few fish.  

[DINK WHISPERER]

I would cry for days after! Well, assuming I make it past the initial heart attack i would suffer! 

[the reel ess]

I guess I'm doing pretty well. I've broken a couple cheap rods. One with the tailgate, both my fault. I've dropped the sideplate of a Johnny Morris reel in water that was too deep and cold to go get it. BPS replaced it for the minimum reel maintenance fee of $19.95. 

[nosdog2]

On 10/29/2017 at 1:08 PM, ww2farmer said:

No, but I have been tempted to. 

 

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

Did you save the waypoints?? LOL!

[BrackishBassin]

On 10/29/2017 at 1:35 PM, 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. 

 

I’ve seen Iaconelli do it. 

[Arcs&sparks]

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.

Haha,  I googled it.  I then googled his name with "skateboarding";

 

[everythingthatswims]

I was running my boat on Lake Anna last winter, when my hat flew off my head. I turned the boat around and luckily got to it while it was still floating, I like that hat!

 

Then my buddy said "where are your Costas?"

[IndianaFinesse]

3 hours ago, Arcs&sparks said:

Haha,  I googled it.  I then googled his name with "skateboarding";

 

You want to have a good laugh, look up a video of ike breakdancing after the weigh in at the bass master classic, when he won.  It should be noted that the weigh-in director of the time told ike to do it though.

[SuperCorona]

I turned my 7' finesse rod into a 6'8" rod with the living room ceiling fan the other night.  The real sad part was that I was in the process of getting up to turn the fan off to avoid that very unfortunate accident.  The rod was laying across my lap and when I got up....grrrrrrrrr

[N Florida Mike]

My dad drilled into me about being careful with my Rod and reels.I can only recall 2 that I lost for good. I dont remember breaking any by accident except the 2 I broke bank fishing by throwing them after losing big fish.The first one I lost was when I had a live worm out on a dock in the river. Something grabbed it and pulled the rod out so fast that it didnt hit the water until 6-8 feet out. Water was neck deep. I got out there and felt around for awhile but it was gone.

Lost a old quantam reel and custom rod this year .When I got home in the bass hunter it was gone. Never noticed it gone but did remember hearing a splash near the boat and thinking it was a fish at the time.

Another time I was fishing a big lake just after sunup and just as I shut the motor off  a bass blasted something near a cypress tree. I excitedly grabbed for a rod and when I picked it up another combo had got caught in it and it fell in the lake. My sons only rod!. So I prayed and jumped out in 6 ft of water. It was cold, windy and lake full of gators.After 5 minutes of feeling around I stepped on 

it! 

And a friend broke the rod that I caught my PB on as he bent it into an arc and asked " Is this an ugly stik " and the rod snapped. 

My son though has lost several of my outfits through the years.But this post is long enough already!

[Bankbeater]

I've never ran over a rod, but I have lost a few to car doors, and tailgates.

[geo g]

I had a co-worker who's marriage was coming to a nasty end.  He came home from work and all his rods and reels were in the drive way run over by his wife numerous times in her F150.  She got 6 shimano reels and rods, his high end net, a tackle box, and his depth finder unit.  I guess she didn't like him spending weekend mornings on the lake.  He was happy to see her go!

[Further North]

On 10/29/2017 at 10:42 PM, 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.

Seems a little like a temper tantrum....

On 10/29/2017 at 10:53 PM, Weedwhacker said:

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.

It might not have anything to do with the OP, but it's indicative of how our culture treats celebrities with special sets of rules...and lets them get away with stuff we'd not condone among our friends...it should be the other way around...they should; as ambassadors for our pastime, pros should operate at the highest level, not the lowest.

 

Thanks for putting the post up...those of us who don't follow the pros wouldn't know otherwise, and now we know to avoid things Iconelli endorses...

[IndianaFinesse]

55 minutes ago, Further North said:

Seems a little like a temper tantrum....

It might not have anything to do with the OP, but it's indicative of how our culture treats celebrities with special sets of rules...and lets them get away with stuff we'd not condone among our friends...it should be the other way around...they should; as ambassadors for our pastime, pros should operate at the highest level, not the lowest.

 

Thanks for putting the post up...those of us who don't follow the pros wouldn't know otherwise, and now we know to avoid things Iconelli endorses...

These are pretty much my thoughts on this subject also, except I wasn't willing to stir the pot with the ike fans on here that much..

[Further North]

Just now, IndianaFinesse said:

These are pretty much my thoughts on this subject also, except I wasn't willing to stir the pot with the ike fans on here that much..

They'll get over it...or they won't.

 

I'll be OK either way.

[GorillaBass]

This is actually quite hilarious i'm reading this.. not the fact that 1000's are missing but yesterday when I was fishing I through my shakey head at an overhang, it got snagged.. like we all do sometimes

 

BUT.. as im trolling over to it, my freaking dropshot weight on another rod was hanging over the boat, ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE BAD HABIT of mine, is leaving my stuff hanging over the boat when not in use..

 

well, the weight wrapped around another tree limb and dragged the rod 1/4" away from dropping into some nasty heavily limbered tree ~12ft deep, my girlfriend wasnt paying attention (go fn figure) and I luckily saved it in time.. almost fell in, then almost hooked myself, burned my boat by dropping my cigarette,....

 

long story short, it was an intense 30 seconds and i learned a valuable lesson.

 

HAVE BETTER CASTING AIM! haha

[Arcs&sparks]

Lol My buddy and I have done that same thing so many times in his little Jon boat. We are now very good about keeping tips in the boat.  I bent a brand new st croix premier right in half going under a bridge, it's amazing it didn't break.  It's not the best rod I own but it sure is rugged!

[S Hovanec]

I had just delivered a brand new custom SCV and Stella.  Also a SCIV and Certate, but that one is irrelevant.  Plans were to head offshore and fish for deep Erie smallies.

 

We were 5 miles off shore in 50'+ of water.  The lake is pretty calm, by Erie standards, and we we're smacking some fish.  He was using his SCIV/Certate initially and decided to try out the SCV/Stella.

 

If you're familiar with older Lund multi-species boats, you'll know the rear deck is rather small, maybe only about 14" wide.  It's quite easy to loose balance and step off the 6" to the floor of the boat, or the 3" into the splash well.

 

This all happened so fast that its kind of a blur.  I had my back to Jim and I hear a splash.  I turn just in time to see the silhouette of a Stella sinking into the abyss.  Now Jim is a large man.  I can say that cause I'm equally large.  I also see Jim, with ninja like speed and agility, dive for the rod and scoop deep enough to get his hand under it, while never leaving the boat.  Well, at least from the knees down he didn't leave the boat.  I don't know how he didn't totally exit the boat, but he didn't.

 

He gets his composure, puts the Stella in the rod holder and says, "I think I'll fish with my Certate for a while.  I won't care as much if I drop it".

[BasserJim]

56 minutes ago, S Hovanec said:

I had just delivered a brand new custom SCV and Stella.  Also a SCIV and Certate, but that one is irrelevant.  Plans were to head offshore and fish for deep Erie smallies.

 

We were 5 miles off shore in 50'+ of water.  The lake is pretty calm, by Erie standards, and we we're smacking some fish.  He was using his SCIV/Certate initially and decided to try out the SCV/Stella.

 

If you're familiar with older Lund multi-species boats, you'll know the rear deck is rather small, maybe only about 14" wide.  It's quite easy to loose balance and step off the 6" to the floor of the boat, or the 3" into the splash well.

 

This all happened so fast that its kind of a blur.  I had my back to Jim and I hear a splash.  I turn just in time to see the silhouette of a Stella sinking into the abyss.  Now Jim is a large man.  I can say that cause I'm equally large.  I also see Jim, with ninja like speed and agility, dive for the rod and scoop deep enough to get his hand under it, while never leaving the boat.  Well, at least from the knees down he didn't leave the boat.  I don't know how he didn't totally exit the boat, but he didn't.

 

He gets his composure, puts the Stella in the rod holder and says, "I think I'll fish with my Certate for a while.  I won't care as much if I drop it".

 

I don't know who this Jim fella you speak of is, but he seems like quite the doofus.

 

To this day, I don't know how I stayed 'in the boat'. I was waist deep in the water, upside down. Center of mass and the laws of gravity say I was going for a swim and re-entering the boat via boarding ladder/climbing the engine (I don't think you had the ladder installed yet at that point??). I guess the human body is capable of some amazing things when you see $$$$ worth of brand new rod and reel sinking to the bottom the first time you use it!

[bigfruits]

i backed over a 15 pack of beer a few weeks ago before a fishing trip. 5 survived.

 

doesnt come close to losing what your friend did. i feel for him!