Author Topic: What have you lost in the hole? (Read 6846 times)

ICEHOLE · « **Reply #30 on:** Mar 11, 2021, 01:21 PM »

i dont know how but wind knocked in the side of my pop up and tipped over a 7" sauce pan that was on a bucket, it made it down my kdrill 7.5 hole somehow..

TheWasp74 · « **Reply #31 on:** Mar 12, 2021, 06:57 PM »

Lost my phone on Saratoga couple weekends ago, out for the night bite. Was using it as a flashlight and had it up on a bucket. Wind came up blew it right in the hole I had my vex in. Watched the light go down and disappear. Packed up and left.. never even got a line in the water that night.

Arctic Addict · « **Reply #32 on:** Mar 12, 2021, 07:32 PM »

My dignity...

Neil McCauley · « **Reply #33 on:** Mar 13, 2021, 06:32 AM »

7" auger bottom connection. Screw worked loose and down it went on the first hole of the morning at LG a few years ago.

Car keys have to be the worst. I have so much important stuff on my keychain I only take the fob for the truck now when I fish.

desmobob · « **Reply #34 on:** Mar 13, 2021, 04:49 PM »

In around 45 years of fishing, I've lost just two things:

1) my cherished Zippo lighter that I bought when I was in the Navy and had long enough to wear the hinges out and had Zippo repair it. It fell out of the unzipped pocket of my coveralls straight into a hole on Crane Pond in the Adirondacks in NY. I dropped a big split shot with a long length of surveyor's tape clamped in it so I could bring my SCUBA gear up there and retrieve it in the spring or summer. I never did. I quit smoking since then so the desire to retrieve the lighter faded away.

2) a six-inch skimmer in Lake George.

That's it! I hope I didn't jinx myself. I don't own a cell phone so that's one commonly lost item I don't have to worry about.

coast51 · « **Reply #35 on:** Mar 13, 2021, 06:17 PM »

Great idea to anchor Hi-lite tape as marker for future scuba retrieval, even better idea to quit smoking, congrats!

coast51 · « **Reply #36 on:** Mar 13, 2021, 06:20 PM »

Quote from: ActiveTrapChecker on Mar 10, 2021, 06:29 AM

Sounds like he was chumming for pike, a bold strategy if they were still in the package though

good one ATC

filetandrelease · « **Reply #37 on:** Mar 15, 2021, 06:30 AM »

In 45 + years a few lures , and a cell phone, my temper
And several Fish , 😜

trapper2000 · « **Reply #38 on:** Mar 15, 2021, 07:07 AM »

nothing .............i had a few fish flop back down the hole ......but i can see why it happens ...... i thinkthe reason o don't lose things down the hole is the fact that i use a 36 inch micro rod ...i sit back further.....that or i'm just smarter then you guys

filetandrelease · « **Reply #39 on:** Mar 15, 2021, 07:23 AM »

Come on trapp I’m I the only 1 that has dove for a fish

trapper2000 · « **Reply #40 on:** Mar 15, 2021, 07:58 AM »

i'll dive for a big gill ......

skifisher · « **Reply #41 on:** Mar 15, 2021, 01:09 PM »

My sanity...every time I see fish on the Marcum that won’t commit to anything I throw at them!
(That, and a scoop several years ago!)

mdm25549 · « **Reply #42 on:** Mar 15, 2021, 01:11 PM »

I was drilling a hole with my ion this year and as soon as I broke through the bottom side of the ice somehow the bolt that holds the auger bit on came off and down went the auger bit leaving the powerhead in my hand. I tried hooking it and couldn’t. Have it pinned and going to try with a magnet this spring

In the Zone · « **Reply #43 on:** Mar 17, 2021, 05:18 AM »

Up early fishing for eyes years ago with my brothers and a friend. Started setting a line of tip ups, my twin was baiting up when the flashlight slipped down the hole landing upright eliminating the entire area. We told him he could fish that hole since he was trying his “new “ way of attracting fish.
Saw my other brothers pole taken off the bucket and down the hole by a pike up at the Lake of the Isles.
As for me, never loss anything except a few perch and a monster walleye in a 6” hole, 2’ of ice and a wet arm trying to retrieve it...arrrgh !

SPIN 1 · « **Reply #44 on:** Mar 23, 2021, 06:30 AM »

Pair of sunglasses 250$ ouch 20’down

SPIN 1 · « **Reply #45 on:** Mar 23, 2021, 06:37 AM »

3 hrs later a bunch of maguiver stuff recovered 😎👍. The shades Note to self get a croakie for glasses

SKIFFLAKEJIMMY · « **Reply #46 on:** Mar 23, 2021, 06:56 AM »

Quote from: skifisher on Mar 15, 2021, 01:09 PM

My sanity...every time I see fish on the Marcum that won’t commit to anything I throw at them!
(That, and a scoop several years ago!)

X2

Adironzach · « **Reply #47 on:** Mar 24, 2021, 05:27 AM »

Quote from: SPIN 1 on Mar 23, 2021, 06:37 AM

3 hrs later a bunch of maguiver stuff recovered 😎👍. The shades Note to self get a croakie for glasses

Heck ya, great save. How deep of water were you in?

SPIN 1 · « **Reply #48 on:** Mar 24, 2021, 06:05 AM »

18’.down

Adironzach · « **Reply #49 on:** Mar 24, 2021, 06:39 AM »

Quote from: SPIN 1 on Mar 24, 2021, 06:05 AM

18’.down

Not an easy scoop by any means. I tried recovering a spud i lost at the end of last season just off the shore in ~25 fow, but it was covered in mud by then. never could located it.

chaumontriverguy · « **Reply #50 on:** Mar 24, 2021, 08:08 PM »

a little bit of sanity and and a good percentage of my adult life

Hardwater2 · « **Reply #51 on:** Mar 24, 2021, 08:14 PM »

Quote from: chaumontriverguy on Mar 24, 2021, 08:08 PM

a little bit of sanity and and a good percentage of my adult life

X2!

iamthelevel · « **Reply #52 on:** Nov 28, 2021, 02:08 PM »

I lost the bottom of my Eskimo Stingray after the hex bolt came loose. Was able to retrieve it in 25 fow after a trip to harbor freight to get a magnet. Said magnet also saved my beloved one shot ice scoop. Now I keep the magnet in my vehicle all season.

Rebelss · « **Reply #53 on:** Nov 28, 2021, 03:03 PM »

A camera years ago...thanks to a 19" flopping 'bow. Good thing it was one of those disposable ones.... but the entire fish trip in pics was on it.

Iceassin · « **Reply #54 on:** Nov 28, 2021, 04:12 PM »

So far, in over 50+ years of ice fishing and as far as I can remember...nothing. I've kicked, dropped, and fell off/over stuff yet nothing has gone down a hole...only Muskrats UP the hole.

Rebelss · « **Reply #55 on:** Nov 28, 2021, 04:14 PM »

Quote from: Iceassin on Nov 28, 2021, 04:12 PM

So far, in over 50+ years of ice fishing and as far as I can remember...nothing. I've kicked, dropped, and fell off/over stuff yet nothing has gone down a hole...only Muskrats UP the hole.

Oooooh...that sounds painful!

DR.SPECKLER · « **Reply #56 on:** Nov 28, 2021, 04:25 PM »

Hahahaha.

Iceassin · « **Reply #57 on:** Nov 28, 2021, 04:29 PM »

Quote from: Rebelss on Nov 28, 2021, 04:14 PM

Oooooh...that sounds painful!

Why am I not surprised at this?

Rebelss · « **Reply #58 on:** Nov 28, 2021, 05:22 PM »

Quote from: Iceassin on Nov 28, 2021, 04:29 PM

Why am I not surprised at this?

ice dawg · « **Reply #59 on:** Nov 28, 2021, 05:33 PM »

Several of my rod and reel combos have been pulled down holes by Northern Pike. It always seems to happen while I'm putting bait on another rod. Lost a rod holder down a hole and caught it about ten minutes later while jigging for Perch. I dropped the drag knob while changing spools and watched it roll ten feet across the ice, hop over a ridge and go straight into a hole. I thought I was far enough from the hole to prevent this.

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Author Topic: What have you lost in the hole? (Read 6846 times)