A Very Expensive Fishing Trip

[Capt Steve]

As if it’s not bad enough trying to fish in 100° heat
Yesterday I went out on the lake for a few hours of fishing. I was fishing a worm in about 10 feet of water when I got my first bite. Unfortunately when I set the hook, I missed the fish. 
A few seconds later, I realize my phone was no longer in my shirt pocket. Evidently, when I set the hook, it flew out into the lake. 
$1100 later I had a new phone. No, I did not have insurance on it. After all who would drop their phone into the water?Aaaaggghhh!!!

After being a saltwater fishing guide in the Gulf of Mexico for 23 years, I only dropped one phone into the water.  You would think I would have learned after that.
You can bet the new phone does have insurance on it.

Sorry for the long rant. I had to vent to someone.

[IcatchDinks]

Oof. That's rough. I snagged somebody's phone out of the river the other day. It was in a waterproof bag... That turned out to be not so water proof. I'm always paranoid about having my phone near the water. But how else am I gonna take pictures of all my tiny little fish? 

 

[Spankey]

That sucks and sorry to see that happen to you.  I get squirrely with my phone on the boat. Alway trying to keep it safe. Only have it incase of an emergency. It hurts to be out like that, in time it will be a memory. Go catch a big one and take your mind off of it. 

[Will Ketchum]

I have a small digital camera that I take fishing. It has a place on the bottom to mount a tripod if needed. I screwed an eye bolt into it and attached a shoe lace through the eye bolt and put it around my neck. The camera goes in the shirt pocket. I learned this the hard way after another camera ended up in the river. Phones should come equipped with something similar.

[Bluebasser86]

I've probably lost 7 or 8 phones to the water. I'd suggest something like this that I use for my phone when I'm kayak fishing and there's no choice but to use my phone for the tournaments.

https://roguegear.com/products/the-protector-phone-tether

 

[Bird]

Sorry to hear that ?.

 

I struggle with phones, either leave it in the truck and it shuts off from heat or leave under the boat seat for the ride home ?.

I worked on industrial cranes before retirement, sometimes over 100ft in the air.

They supplied climbing harnesses with zippered pockets which worked well when you zipped the pockets shut........I watched several phones spiral to their death.

[Darth-Baiter]

This is $20 I think.  I leash my phone. I hate insurance.  
 

[TnRiver46]

Gotta go pants pocket not shirt pocket. I’ve jumped in with my phone in my pocket a few times and it never came out 

[looking45]

My phone is never on me when I’m in the boat. I put it in a pouch and secure it to one of the rails. Storing it in the glove box or one of the compartments in the summer will cause it to overheat and shut down. If I have to use it, I sit in the middle seat I case I drop it. 

[Bankbeater]

Ouch! I put my first phone, a small flip phone, in my shirt pocket and didn't think about it again until I leaned over the boat and it fell in.  After that, I always keep the phone in my front pants pocket.

[slonezp]

They're all expensive. $50K truck, $50K boat....

[Susky River Rat]

Here I thought you were going to say you bought a new boat. I always put my truck keys and wallet at the console windshield. My phone can be anywhere 

[ironbjorn]

My phones are always $150-$200 prepaid Verizon phones. $50/month unlimited everything and they do everything the $1000 phones do unless you have a tech niche where you need the super sonic camera or something. So it's no great loss if one is lost or breaks. I did lose one to the water once while fishing a dam. It fell right over the dam wall. No chance.

[VolFan]

I have a story on here somewhere, the short of it is I was in my kayak 20 or so years ago with a flip phone. Went to flip it to answer a call and flipped it right out of my hand, off the gunnel and into the water. Big quick reach to try to grab it dislodged my sunglasses from the top of my hat where I put them to see the phone and into the drink. The phone worked for as far down as I could see it…

[Zcoker]

If there’s one thing that I’ve learned on the water….if it ain’t secured, gonna loose it. I tether everything when out on my yak, phone, paddle, dry bags, shades, tools…just about everything. Rods are always secured when not in use. Just never know. 

[Sam]

iPhone, important papers,  fishing licenses, safety course card, emergency information, .38 Smith & Wesson, hand held radio, SUV keys, sun glasses, and other items go directly into the boat's glove compartment right before launching the boat.

 

So far, so good!

[Captain Phil]

I have killed or lost dozens of cell phones while fishing.  When they first became popular, I would carry them in my pants pocket.   More than once, I hoped out of the boat to wade or free the boat when I would hear that sizzling sound of another frying phone.  Back in the 80s when Porsche sunglasses were in style, I must have lost  a half dozen pairs.  If you drain Rodman, you could find a truckload.

[Alex from GA]

When in the kayak I carry my phone, wallet and epi pen in a dry bag clipped to the under side of the hatch cover.  I carry a digital camera in a dive case in my PFD.  I've lost a flip phone in my shirt pocket when I leaned over to rinse my hands.

 

 

[Koz]

My phone stays in my dry bag, crate, or tackle bag when I'm out on my kayak or on a boat.

 

I have an Amazfit GTR2 watch that allows me to answer phone calls and read texts while I'm fishing. While I can receive incoming calls, I can't call out on it nor can I respond to texts. But answering calls on it is enough for me.

 

Actually, maybe I can call out. I forgot that my watch is connected to Alexa. I'll have to try that sometime.

 

It also texts me any of my app alerts or Alexa messages. So if I set up weather alerts on my phone I'll get them on my watch.

 

I paid $199 for it over a year ago and now it's down tp $124.

 

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08HRBZ2G4/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1

 

[N Florida Mike]

Ive never dropped one in the water.

But I had my phone in a ziplock bag while kayak fishing in my then slowly leaking kayak. I checked the phone every now and then and it was high and dry. Next time I looked water had got in the zip lock bag somehow…could not save it by putting it in some oatmeal and uncle bens rice…?

[casts_by_fly]

An iphone is waterproof for all purposes topside in the kayak, so I have no cares if it gets wet and I don't mess with dry bags and pouches.  However, every shirt or pair of pants I wear has either a zippered chest pocket or a zipped pant pocket where the phone stays most of the time.  if its not there, I have two places in the kayak where its below the gunwales and can't fall out.  I'd have to flip to lose it and that's a bigger issue than just losing the phone.  

[Fishingmickey]

I've lost a couple overboard since 2014. One was loaded with good limit of bass pictures that I had not uploaded during a tournament and it was in February. Cost me a top five finish in a field of 80-90 kayaks. I use a Rogue tether now.

FM

[Skunkmaster-k]

Most of the time I leave my phone at home when fishing. But if I absolutely have to carry my tracking device, it goes in the front pocket. One of these days I’m going to turn the trolling motor too fast or fall off the dock or something smart like that and then I’ll have an excuse to enjoy silence. Sorry about your phone .