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03-19-2012, 12:00 AM
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: down by the river
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Rod down the hole
So, got out this morning to the whitefish spot dropped down my first rig and set about to setting up the 2nd.
Not 5 minutes later a 15lb laker grabs my first rig and takes it down the hole, but not without me dropping to a knee doing my best impression of a slide into home plate and getting a wet arm in the process.
Once the water cleared the rod was nowhere to be found.
Have you ever lost a rod or tip-up down the hole?
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03-19-2012, 12:02 AM
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I highly doubt it was a 15lb laker!
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03-19-2012, 12:03 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2011
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I've lost countless fish that got off half way up the hole but that's it and at bonavista I saw about four rods go down this year
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03-19-2012, 12:05 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Calgary
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Never lost a rod or tipup but I have lost a cell phone down the hole
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03-19-2012, 12:46 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2010
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Not yet. Knock on wood 
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03-19-2012, 06:40 AM
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Never lost a rod but back in the days when Coal lake still produced some huge fish I did do a pretty impressive 50 yard dash through the shallows, couldnt quite catch my rod so I made a hail mary dive for it at the last possible second and got ahold of it, lost the fish though and he seemed like a pretty good one. As a fishing addicted kid living under the poverty line with parents who would have been pretty happy to see me give it up there was no way I was letting that rod get away!!
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03-19-2012, 07:35 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2010
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I lost a jaw spreader once.....not a good idea to mess with the fish right next to the hole.....was pulling a hook that the fish took deep and in one flip it was a perfect swish nothing but hole.....
LC
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03-19-2012, 05:37 PM
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dropped an expensive pair of scissors down the hole today. they went point first and all i could see was the top of the handles, very soft bottom. retrieved them with the magnet that i always have in my bag of tricks.
my brother had a rod "jump" out of the boat and 3 hours later when we hoisted anchor up came the rod with 3 lbs. rainbow still on.
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03-19-2012, 01:21 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2010
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BeeGuy
So, got out this morning to the whitefish spot dropped down my first rig and set about to setting up the 2nd.
Not 5 minutes later a 15lb laker grabs my first rig and takes it down the hole, but not without me dropping to a knee doing my best impression of a slide into home plate and getting a wet arm in the process.
Once the water cleared the rod was nowhere to be found.
Have you ever lost a rod or tip-up down the hole?
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I had a reverse experience. I pulled up a 15lb 2 oz laker with a Dora the Explorer rod and reel attached to it
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03-19-2012, 01:23 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by chubbdarter
I had a reverse experience. I pulled up a 15lb 2 oz laker with a Dora the Explorer rod and reel attached to it
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Can I have my rod back?
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03-19-2012, 01:39 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Grande Prairie
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two bells and a pair of sunglasses
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03-19-2012, 02:06 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Saltmania
two bells and a pair of sunglasses
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The rod I lost also took my 3rd bell of the season.
Still waiting on the mail for my bucket brigadier badge
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03-19-2012, 06:22 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2009
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I anchor my rod holders, but 2 winters ago the wife went to set her camera down, bounced it off the chair and down the hole it went. had mine hanging on the back of my chair this winter, forgot about it and folded the chair, fortunately it landed on the ice.
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03-19-2012, 07:17 PM
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I have lost faith a number of times, but nothing else yet. Came close lots, but that's a benefit of only having a 6" auger.
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03-19-2012, 07:22 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Gangland, Edmonton
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Myself, I loose 1 perch rod every year. Buddy drops my pliers down the hole and another bud lost his coffee cup lid down the hole. we even seen it float to the bottom on the fish camera. then it sank in the soft bottom. I am going to start ti tie it off the chair while i am not watching it.
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03-19-2012, 07:48 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2012
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One rod, one cell and a zippo, needless to say I don't keep thing on my lap any more, and try to keep a close eye on that rod.
My buddy got a nice pike the one day on the tip up outside, got wrapped in his jigging rod line but never went down hole, took my line down as well with my rod, pulled it all up the hole 15 feet away
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03-19-2012, 08:24 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Edmonton
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never lost a rod but lost an entire tackle box worth of lures while reaching for my rod 
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03-19-2012, 08:36 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2010
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A big jack literally spit my jaw spreaders about 4 feet over the ice and straight down the hole.
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03-19-2012, 09:24 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2010
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Quote:
Originally Posted by college-fisherman
A big jack literally spit my jaw spreaders about 4 feet over the ice and straight down the hole.
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We must have caught the same "Kareem Abdul Ja-pike".... 
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Originally Posted by Lefty-Canuck
I lost a jaw spreader once.....not a good idea to mess with the fish right next to the hole.....was pulling a hook that the fish took deep and in one flip it was a perfect swish nothing but hole.....
LC
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03-19-2012, 09:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Lefty-Canuck
We must have caught the same "Kareem Abdul Ja-pike"....
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Ja-pike is also known to shoot hooks.
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03-20-2012, 09:38 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Calgary
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2 setups !
Went out to Rupert and fishing with my Wifes "Uncle Buddy" an old retired salmon boat Captain. Wife came out of the cabin while I was jigging and said Buddy wanted to go to a different spot and to spool up. I did but left the two rigs lying in the deck not put away (stupid prairie boy)
I was in the cabin while Buddy throttled up the big volvo and watched as the weights on the lines bounced overboard followed by the rods. I was sick as I told this old man I hardly knew what had happened.I had 3 more days with him!!
The old guy laughed and said now well have to got to the tackle shop before dinner. He dropped 1400 bucks on 2 rods, reels, and new line. I offered to pay but there was no way then he took us out for dinner!
I miss that old guy with the kind soul alot. Pulled in a 100lb halibut that trip on one of the new rods.
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05-25-2012, 06:58 AM
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2 of my dads rods almost , but i caught em wet up to the shoulders, i liked to ancor my rods and their holders with something heavy he never bothered those rods are now mine hah
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05-25-2012, 08:16 PM
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NEVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. 
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05-25-2012, 08:43 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by slivers86
NEVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. |
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05-25-2012, 11:09 PM
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Quote:
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NEVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. |
bahahaha,
I keep dredging my ice fishing spot from the canoe with the fleeting hope that I can recover my gear
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03-20-2012, 09:53 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BeeGuy
Have you ever lost a rod or tip-up down the hole?
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Yes i have twice not a good feeling.
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03-20-2012, 11:10 AM
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A number of years ago I was ice fishing on a BC Lake for Rainbows. This couple walked up to see how I was doing and I happened to pull out a nice 16" trout. The older fellow got excited and opened his mouth to say something and his uppers shot out and hit the side of the hole skidded across the water and started to sink. Luckily I was down on the hole and had the presence of mind to scoop them out. Instead of thanking me his wife laid into him dragging him away, was tough to see the pained but grateful look on his face
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03-20-2012, 01:48 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lornce
A number of years ago I was ice fishing on a BC Lake for Rainbows. This couple walked up to see how I was doing and I happened to pull out a nice 16" trout. The older fellow got excited and opened his mouth to say something and his uppers shot out and hit the side of the hole skidded across the water and started to sink. Luckily I was down on the hole and had the presence of mind to scoop them out. Instead of thanking me his wife laid into him dragging him away, was tough to see the pained but grateful look on his face
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I never thought someone could lose their teeth down the hole. Maybe on the ice, but not under it. Hilarious
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03-22-2012, 07:27 PM
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sorry, i clicked yes because i have never lost a ROD but i have lost a bell(pike alert)
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03-22-2012, 07:35 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BUCKMASTER7MMMAG.
sorry, i clicked yes because i have never lost a ROD but i have lost a bell(pike alert)
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Nice, I lost 3 bells so far. Had a big rainbow try and eat one off the bottom the other day..weird.
I call the bell, "The Early Warning System".
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