Has a bass ever taken away your rod and reel?

[ratherbfishin1]

1 minute ago, Dtrombly said:

A big bluegill has taken my daughters, she casted and sat it down to go play and it took off into the pond. Luckily it was a very small pond and she had a bobber on, kept my eye out for it and saw the bobber surface after a few minutes, casted to it and drug in back in.. and caught the fish! 

I just hate it when the bluegills take my rods

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16 hours ago, Bassguytom said:

While bluefishng on a party boat at night My friend put his rod down  against the rail. As soon as I said you shouldn’t do that it sling shotted overboard. Pound for pound best fighting fish in the ocean. 

Used to work on a "night time blues" boat, that was almost a nightly event. Bluefish are great fighters for sure, but a 10 lb amberjack will drag three 10 lb bluefish backwards. Bluefish, much like cudas and carp get little respect from most anglers, never understood that.

[Paul Roberts]

No. But I've caught a few of them. One was the baited rod of a friend was lost -yanked right off his boat dock. The talk was that it was a HUGE carp; The ultimate"big one that got away story". A couple days later I caught the rod, and reeled in a 15" carp.

[SDoolittle]

I just caught a lost rod last weekend that had obviously been underwater for a very long time. I wonder if a fish took it away from someone of if it was simply dropped or kicked off a boat by accident. Of course, somebody could have just thrown an Iaconelli fit and tossed it into the lake on purpose!

[Pro Logcatcher]

I lost a rod while catfishing a small pond with big catfish in it. I got bored and walked down the bank to make a couple of casts at some nearby structure and when I turned back I saw my buddy waist deep in the water sloshing after my rod! I've also had a ton of times where I will make a cast with a two-piece spinning setup and half of it will go flying. So far, I've managed to retrieve all of those.

[Bill Kowalski]

My buddy lost a rod without a bite, but on his cast.  He forgot to oepn the bail and some how it came out of his hand.   I was up front and turned around to see him bent over with his arm in the water reaching around franticly.   Unfortunately it was gone.   I didn't know what to say.   lol  

[BCline]

I have never lost a rod, but once when I was a kid I was out in the boat with my dad getting ready for a day of catching red fish.  I picked up the cast net and made the first cast for the shrimp we would spend the day fishing with only I neglected to tie the net to my wrist.  I looked at my dad, he looked at me and not a single word was spoken.  I took off my shirt, kicked off my shoes and went in after it.  Fortunately I was and still am an excellent swimmer and after a few minutes it was found and recovered.  

[AggieBassin10]

One time I was fishing in the bay with my grandparents and my grandma asked me to get more bait for her (I was about six). As I was digging out a shrimp for her something hammered my bait and my little spincast rod didn't stand a chance. It was gone!

 

Another time my little cousin lost her reel. We were out on the lake and she went to cast. As she did so she cried out "uh oh." I glanced back to see her spinning reel, bail open, fall into the lake in about 20 ft of water. I began pulling in the line to try and save the reel. Sadly however, after pulling in about 200 yards of line, there was nothing on the other end. The line had broken at the spool and the reel was at he bottom of the lake! Has to be the funniest thing I've seen happen while fishing ?

[Cak920]

When I was a kid maybe 12 years old I was fishing live bluegill as bait and I casted one out and set my rod down to take a drink and my rod took off towards the water. I caught it just in time to reel in one of my biggest bass. 

[Jigfishn10]

On ‎4‎/‎10‎/‎2018 at 7:25 PM, Bassguytom said:

While bluefishng on a party boat at night My friend put his rod down  against the rail. As soon as I said you shouldn’t do that it sling shotted overboard. Pound for pound best fighting fish in the ocean. 

They certainly are hard fighting fish, no doubt about it. When they hit, they hit hard. I'm surprised I haven't lost a rig or 2 over the years.

[Seth_7]

I wish!

[All Day Fishing]

There is an awesome video on Youtube by LunkersTV where he is fishing for gar and it breaks off after nearly spooling his reel, then I think its actually a couple hours later they find a bobber in the river and he goes to pull it up and it is his fish still connected!  He then ties that end back onto his rod and catches the freakin fish!  Sorry its not about losing his rod and reel but it made me think of that, you should check it out!

[EGbassing]

28 minutes ago, All Day Fishing said:

There is an awesome video on Youtube by LunkersTV where he is fishing for gar and it breaks off after nearly spooling his reel, then I think its actually a couple hours later they find a bobber in the river and he goes to pull it up and it is his fish still connected!  He then ties that end back onto his rod and catches the freakin fish!  Sorry its not about losing his rod and reel but it made me think of that, you should check it out!

What video was that? I must have missed it. 

[All Day Fishing]

4 hours ago, EGbassing said:

What video was that? I must have missed it. 

It was from about a year ago I believe, it has like a million views!

[Bassun]

lol great stories... I've had a few incidents but never "lost" a rod.  

 

Trout fishing - had a reel just literally fall apart.  It was a cheap spinning reel, and I'm not entirely sure what happened I just remember reeling and then the bail flies open, flops around then the whole spool, winder, etc just falls into the water.  Ended my day.  I still alternate blame for the sabotage between my step brother and step dad.  Neither accept it lol. 

Carp Fishing - had a few rods lined up, sitting back enjoying the warm sun peeking over the ridge and BLAM.  Rod takes off like a rocket into the water.  I went in, and managed to grab it and tried to set the hook.  Apparently she stopped the run or turned back as I didn't feel any set--- so I kept leaning back.  Ended up with my needs dug into mud and laying almost on my back with the rod well above my head when I finally made contact.  Ended up being a 30 ish inch common carp.  

Buddy on a boat -- Well, he didn't lose his rod to the water, he went into the water.  Something big hit near the boat... he jumped and jerked and lost the rod... it fell harmlessly to the deck of the boat - but he, on the other hand, stumbled around and ended up flailing his way into the water.  I missed the hook set, but saw the rod flopping around and him falling over in slow-mo.  I think it was a big grass carp, he swears it was a striper.  Either way, he lost the fish and got a wet wallet out of the deal.  No harm no foul, unless you count his pride, lol.  

[sdsc357]

No bass but a striper took my 8 ft rod that wasn't secured well enough.

[WRB]

Nope, no bass but a big trout pulled my dads rod and off a dock when I was 8 years, left the rod in the water to go take a pee. My brothers heard the clicker zing, watch a big trout jump then the rod take off. Should have never barrowed my dads tackle?.

Tom

[N Florida Mike]

I've never lost one to a bass. 

My middle son accounted for most of my lost gear in one way or another !

The closest I came to it was fishing Ocean Pond in N. Central Fl. I had pulled into a little cove and saw a bass nail something near a Cypress tree. I killed the motor and grabbed my rod excitedly but another combo's line got snagged on the handle and it fell overboard. It was April, the water was still cold, and I had forgot an anchor. I stuck a paddle down to see how deep it was, (6 feet )took the flannel shirt off out of my overalls, whispered a prayer, looked around for gators, and jumped in. Amazingly, after about 5 minutes I stepped on it and got it back !!!

 

[haggard]

Fishing from the boat on the day of the total solar eclipse (Aug 21 2017), anchored near the shore with a couple friends, I was casting and retrieving for 30 mins with no luck so really wasn't expecting anything when the smallie hooked up. Reeled it in and when it was almost at the boat the reel fell off the rod. I never thought I had to check the nut once in a while but apparently it had worked itself loose. I managed to grab the reel immediately, don't know how it didn't hit the water, set the rod down, and brought the fish in the rest of the way with just the reel. That small fish was my only fish of the day and he made me work for it. 

 

 

[Columbia Craw]

Never.  If were to happen....I would never admit it.

[Joshua Vandamm]

Almost. 

Had a $230 rod n $250 reel setup in a coil spike rod holder at night with a plopper tied on and out in the water. Crossed over my own line with a t-rig worm and was slowly hoping it back when the plopper was hammered. 3lb Fish hit it and the whole setup came out of the ground and went sailing. So did I. Right into the dark cold water. Lol

saved the setup tho. ?

lesson #2 was a fish will hit a non plopping, virtually immobile whopper plopper.  

 

..oh I even landed the fish after all that

Edited April 15, 2018 by Joshua Vandamm

[riverbasser]

Well we can add Keith poche to this list. He fumbled a hookset on MLF yesterday and the fish took the rod lol

[burrows]

10 minutes ago, riverbasser said:

Well we can add Keith poche to this list. He fumbled a hookset on MLF yesterday and the fish took the rod lol

Wow

[frosty]

I’ve only had one come out of my hands, and it was a big 1/2 oz chatterbait is been throwing for a couple hours, my hand was a little tired and the line got around the tip, so when I went to cast it the momentum just jerked the whole thing from my hands. Luckily it landed on the bank but it did freak me out for a second!

[Lures'n'Liberty]

I used to drink a lot, and so did most of my friends. We've spent many a night on the riverbank flathead fishing, and even if you never caught a fish, it was nothing to catch 12-15 beers while a mason jar of something got passed around. One summer, losing rods became such a common occurrence that several friends started carrying "after midnight" rods and reels like the $14.99 Shakespeare Tiger so they could switch out from their high end gear when they neared the point of being "too drunk to fish." 

 

Personally I've never lost one to a fish. I lost a Daiwa featherlight while bicycle fishing a river trail, it must have fallen from the holder that was behind me when i was looking forward. I've also had 2 fall victim to the dreaded tailgate slam that we all fear.