You ever just undress and dive for your lost lure?

[geo g]

In South Florida the places I fish are so full of big gators I am not diving in to retrieve anything, including the wife!  Please don't tell her!

 

[MGF]

18 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

I’ve tried diving down off my dock to save all the lures I’ve lost over the years. It’s too dark underwater to see anything and a hellacious pressure builds up inside my head over 6-8 feet down. So I’ve tried but to no avail. I found a ratchet strap and some sunglasses though 

P1V1 = P2V2

 

As you descend and water pressure increases the air spaces in your body (and equipment) are compressed. In this case your sinuses and middle ear. Divers must blow air into those air spaces to avoid injury...it's not hard to bust an ear drum.

 

some people have mentioned the use of swim goggles. NO GOGGLES! A diving mask also encloses the divers nose so air can be blown into the mask...goggles do not. Just as with the middle ear, as you descend the air inside the goggles or mask is compressed and the mask/goggles are pressed against your face...and your face (including your eye balls are pressed into the mask. So blow air into the mask to prevent your eye balls from being sucked out of your head.

 

LOL I never saw an eye ball actually sucked out of the head but I have seen some really nasty blood shot/bruised eyes.

[MGF]

18 hours ago, Jigfishn10 said:

Happens to me as well...but my doctor's diagnosis is that I suffer from vapor lock. 

I don't know whether or not your kidding but, in truth, if you don't go to a doc that is familiar with "diving medicine" they will likely be completely clueless. Apparently it's possible to skip basic science and math and still become a physician.

 

Pain on descent means that you failed to equalize those air spaces. A cold or other condition may make equalization difficult or impossible...don't dive when sick. Pain on ascent is a "reverse squeeze" and can be a real problem.

 

Here's the big one that your doctor is likely to screw up. When you think you have water stuck in your ear after a dive...it's NOT water. It's also not an ear infection. Water can't get into your middle ear and there isn't anything to trap it in your outer ear. When your middle ear is squeezed blood or other body fluids are sucked into the middle ear to equalize the pressure. That's what you hear and feel sloshing around.  

 

Honest, not all doctors are familiar with diving related conditions or contraindications. 

 

 

[Jigfishn10]

@MGF, I was in fact kidding around, however, you provided some insightful content that I will pass along to my 16 y/o son who just past his divers certification last October. 

Thank you for your posts. 

[MGF]

1 hour ago, Jigfishn10 said:

@MGF, I was in fact kidding around, however, you provided some insightful content that I will pass along to my 16 y/o son who just past his divers certification last October. 

Thank you for your posts. 

That's all stuff he should have been exposed to in his training.  I rambled about it here because non divers are often unaware but still might jump in the water and get into conditions where it's relevant. Pressure related injuries could occur in a swimming pool. You don't have to go "deep" or be breathing compressed air.

 

When I was a kid I swam in a 10 ft deep pool about every day. I remember the pain in the ears when diving to the bottom I never never had a clue. 

[walt-14]

All depends on the situation (water depth, water temp, time of day, and most importantly PRICE OF LURE, haha). Its funny this was brought up on here as I was thinking about this very topic last night.  I plan on throwing some bigger swim baits this spring at some of my local ponds to see if I cant get a PB this spring.  I'm going to be throwing an S-waver and you can bet your butt i'd go after that thing as long as the water isnt too terribly cold and it isnt hung up in water over 5-6 feet deep.  

[Spy]

I've gone swimming so many times that it does't really seem odd anymore. And lure price isn't a consideration either, I've swum for one particular Siebert Fogy at least a half dozen times though truth be told it is my favorite.

 

 

[Ghostshad]

Yes

[Sam]

I refuse to swim in any water where you can't see what is seeing you.

 

I will go into a pond, which I have been known to do, but not rivers or lakes.

[huZZah]

I sacrifice the little one. 
 

What?  He likes it...

[TriStateBassin106]

No but I have walked ankle deep into riprap to retrieve a snagged jackhammer before. 

[Bird]

If I can't reach the bait with an oar, it remains.

[Vilas15]

3 hours ago, Sam said:

I refuse to swim in any water where you can't see what is seeing you.

 

I will go into a pond, which I have been known to do, but not rivers or lakes.

Assuming you live around gators? Other than that there's nothing in the US that would be a reason to fear. Maybe a water snake of some kind.

[huZZah]

18 minutes ago, Vilas15 said:

 there's nothing in the US that would be a reason to fear. Maybe a water snake of some kind.

Some lakes worry me I’ll become the toxic avenger. 
But yeah snakes are a concern too, yeah. 

[Captain Phil]

I have a long time fishing buddy, Dave, that currently lives in Montana.  He's a hunter, fisherman and an avid outdoors person.  He's as tough as they come.  I always feel safe around him no matter where we are.  Some years ago we were fishing in a remote part of Ontario Canada.  We were 50 miles down the lake when no one should have been out.  The temperature was in the low 40s and it was windy.  My friend collects Indian arrowheads that he finds along the lake shore.  We stopped fishing long enough to check out a nearby spot where he had found some before. We beached his Lowe boat on a big rock and started looking.  When I turned around, I saw that the boat had drifted off.  I didn't know what to do as I watched the boat get further away.  My friend is about 5' 10" 240 pounds and white as a sheep. He immediately took off all his clothes, dove into the freezing water and caught up with the boat.  When he got back, he was standing totally naked on the big rock next to me. I asked him if he was cold (dumb question) and why he took off his clothes?  He told me if he had jumped in with his clothes on he may have froze to death by the time we got back to camp.  Living in Florida all my life, I never thought about that.  We have laughed about that day many times.  Sometimes what you don't know will kill you.  Here's Dave with a nice bass.

 

 

[brgbassmaster]

On 2/8/2021 at 5:21 PM, They call me “Gaiter Salad” said:

Whomever said swim baits are addictive- truth!

 

I had in my hands today the Deps Tiny Bulldog.  It would eclipse my most expensive bait to-date by a good margin.   I put it back - but I’d be lying if I didn’t say “I want it!”  My local bass eat bluegill big time. 

 

if I lost it in reasonable waters, I think I’d dive for it.  Hell, I might put swim googles in my kayak just because of it.

 

story time!  Tell me. Who has gone full Jacque Cousteau for a beloved bait?

Only way I'm jumping in after a lure is if its one of my $100+ hard to find swimbaits. some of the ones I have aren't made anymore or are basically impossible to get due to being sold out seconds after a drop or People just won't get rid of certain baits. Other than that all my other baits if they go in the drink oh well lol. 

[Sam]

3 hours ago, Vilas15 said:

Assuming you live around gators? Other than that there's nothing in the US that would be a reason to fear. Maybe a water snake of some kind.

Vilas, it is just one of my fishing rules.

[fishingtx]

I was throwing a brand new BX Brat 6' diver in a color that was sold out every where I looked. I got it hung on an old ski rope. I dove down with my coastas still on and got the bait. I got back up to the surface realizing I lost my glasses so I went back down to get them.

[Boomstick]

Lost lure? Not so much. However my youngest son had snagged a rock and I was trying to grab his line to get it out and while I was paddling over to it, he set his rod on his kayak and a strong wind blew it sideways and the rod fell right in the water. Without hesitation he jumped in and grabbed it.