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New York => Ice Fishing New York => Topic started by: Reelax on Mar 09, 2021, 05:42 PM
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It was just a matter of time. Perfect day on Oneida. Had it dialed in. 5 perch on the ice with waves coming thru every 10-15 minutes. Got up to step out of the shanty to stretch my legs and heard something fall. “What was that”? Hmm, where’s my phone? Glanced at the screen and saw a big object racing to the bottom. Yup, lost the phone. Ironically getting a new phone delivered tomorrow so no big loss. Would have kept on fishing but didn’t want my wife to worry when she couldn’t get a hold of me for the rest of the day. What about you? What fell down your hole?
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Phone almost made it this year, but luckily didn't bounced. When my daughter was little lots of ice scoops went to the bottom, a few jigs and spoons due to kids burning the line on the heater and me not seeing it.
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1 shale bar used as a spud to the bottom and a friend's glasses this year , can't wait for next year!
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I have 3 phones on bottom of saratoga lake. 2 through ice and 1 open water. I'm a slow learner i guess
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Lost my phone on Lake George a couple weekends ago. Saw it sink to the bottom with the action of a good spoon. Even had the background pic of my family lit up as it went 40’ to the bottom. I ordered a floating waterproof case that night.
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I've never owned a cell phone but if I ever do I think I just learned not to take it on the ice - hahaha
Just don’t bend over the hole to look down if your phones in your chest pocket that isn’t zipped up
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Just don’t bend over the hole to look down if your phones in your chest pocket that isn’t zipped up
Same way my grandpa and his buddy has lost phones on the boat leaned over side to net a fish and bye bye cell phone
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i've lost a lot of those clip-on depth finders over the years.
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Lost my first phone this year on LG. I watched it flutter down to 106'. At least it brought in a lake trout hahaha. Also lost my bowl :pinch: A couple pliers over the years as well but thankfully not much more than that.
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Oh boy me personally old iPod , lantern globe, juul, fish whistle and scoop. I've been witness to an 8 inch fry pan with 2 t bones , chisel, jig pole and my buddies only set of car keys wich had to wait 10 for gm to send him new ones
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The year my dad passed away my brother and nephews came out ice fishing with me. We were about to have lunch and we were making hotdogs. My brother accidentally dropped a full pack of hot dogs down the hole and it sank. We watched it go down on the depth finder. ;D
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pliers spud and a class ring once. ;D
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A phone and an electronic lettuce inhalation device lol, phone was on schroon got a flag, phone was on lap, raced up to get the flag and swoosh goes right down the hole perfect zero rim or bouncing for me to try to grab it watched it flutter all the way to the bottom on my graph. Another time I was night crappie fishing and my phone went for a dip but some how I stuck my hand in the hole and grabbed it b4 it got out of reach don’t ask me how I did that got lucky on the grab
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The year my dad passed away my brother and nephews came out ice fishing with me. We were about to have lunch and we were making hotdogs. My brother accidentally dropped a full pack of hot dogs down the hole and it sank. We watched it go down on the depth finder. ;D
Sounds like he was chumming for pike, a bold strategy if they were still in the package though
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Ice scoops, lures or jigs, one glove, cell phone, and a pole !!! Yeah something big hits it while I’m reeling in a fish from the other hole... numerous perch also and yeah maybe a bit of my pride.😎😎😎😀😀😎🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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A friend once showing me his new filet knife, and it floats! Just to prove it, he put it in the water, and we watched it sink to the bottom.
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My stress
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::) ;)
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I've been witness to an 8 inch fry pan with 2 t bones
:o :o :o :o :o
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It was just a matter of time. Perfect day on Oneida. Had it dialed in. 5 perch on the ice with waves coming thru every 10-15 minutes. Got up to step out of the shanty to stretch my legs and heard something fall. “What was that”? Hmm, where’s my phone? Glanced at the screen and saw a big object racing to the bottom. Yup, lost the phone. Ironically getting a new phone delivered tomorrow so no big loss. Would have kept on fishing but didn’t want my wife to worry when she couldn’t get a hold of me for the rest of the day. What about you? What fell down your hole?
I still can't believe that people don't secure their phone in the field. Those things are too important and too expensive to just leave them to fall out and get lost. Hunting or fishing, I have a second plastic snap in case with a fishing tether on it. When I leave the truck, I pop the phone out of the normal case and snap it into the case secured to my coat or belt loop, and drop the phone into my pocket. Fish always bite when my hands are full, and I would have lost it many times without this. I just use a tether with a loop on the end, and since my phone case does not have a place to attach the tether, I loop it through the speaker hole.
There are a million options for tethers on Amazon and EBAY. I buy them by the handful and put them on everything:
https://smile.amazon.com/Pacific-Handy-Cutter-CL36-Lanyard/dp/B00HQNPEKU/ref=sr_1_14?dchild=1&keywords=fishing+tether&qid=1615390575&refinements=p_36%3A-700&rnid=386589011&sr=8-14
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Sounds like he was chumming for pike, a bold strategy if they were still in the package though
I wonder how long they lasted down there.
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I still can't believe that people don't secure their phone in the field. Those things are too important and too expensive to just leave them to fall out and get lost. Hunting or fishing, I have a second plastic snap in case with a fishing tether on it. When I leave the truck, I pop the phone out of the normal case and snap it into the case secured to my coat or belt loop, and drop the phone into my pocket. Fish always bite when my hands are full, and I would have lost it many times without this. I just use a tether with a loop on the end, and since my phone case does not have a place to attach the tether, I loop it through the speaker hole.
There are a million options for tethers on Amazon and EBAY. I buy them by the handful and put them on everything:
https://smile.amazon.com/Pacific-Handy-Cutter-CL36-Lanyard/dp/B00HQNPEKU/ref=sr_1_14?dchild=1&keywords=fishing+tether&qid=1615390575&refinements=p_36%3A-700&rnid=386589011&sr=8-14
I'd rather lose my phone occasionally. 50 bucks for the insurance claim sure beats 1000 bucks on a new phone....
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I always seem to forget the glow light is on my lap and lost a few of those down the hole. I had my phone go down this year for the first time. Button that top button on your flannel pocket! No case and the thing did a pencil dive to the bottom.
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oh geez, a bunch of stuff. I had the drag adjuster drop off a reel one time while reeling in a perch, right down the hole. A couple pair of glasses. A can of soup one time, New England clam chowder, dropped off the cooker and flipped right into the hole open end down.... didn't catch a fish there for the rest of the day. Go figure. I lost an ice cleat down a hole too. There's some kinda strange gravitational pull, anything I drop on the ice will end up going straight down a nearby hole.
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I still can't believe that people don't secure their phone in the field. Those things are too important and too expensive to just leave them to fall out.
I sometimes keep my rods on cross bar inside my shanty. My auger broke and I was using Google to see how to fix. Wind shook shanty and Pole fell from top of shanty and knocked phone out my hand and slide right into hole. I couldn't do it again if I tried.
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I thought it would be smart to send a brand new top of the line GoPro down the hole on a piece of pvc to see what the bottom looked like. Problem was that the clamp got brittle in the cold and it snapped and sank to the bottom. We went back that night and got it out of 9.5’ of water with a net taped to a stick of conduit.
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Here's a short list of the memorable losses.
Samsung S5
Samsung S7 active (this one annoyed me as it was 7 fow in a life proof case)
Clam LED light
Otter xt650 support pole (front support, slippery hands)
Ice scoop (thank my daughter for that one)
Cabelas spud (props to my GF for sending that one to its grave)
Business end of a HT 7" hand auger (way back when I was getting started)
I almost lost jigging rods putting them in the roof of the flipover! Almost lost car keys once and now they never see the light of day.
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(prescription) sunglasses this winter. Guess I was due for new ones anyway.
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ice scoop and two jigging poles with reels of course! :'( :'( :'( :'(
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Not me but I had a fella come up to me last year with some magnets and an underwater camera in his hand and asked me and the group that I was fishing with if we could help him retrieve his auger that had sunk to the bottom of Schroon Lake the previous day in our tip-up spread. We tried for a half hour to hook the auger to the magnets but we could never get them to stick for more than a few seconds.
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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..
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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.
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My dignity...
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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.
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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.
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Great idea to anchor Hi-lite tape as marker for future scuba retrieval, even better idea to quit smoking, congrats!
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Sounds like he was chumming for pike, a bold strategy if they were still in the package though
:) :) :) :) good one ATC
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In 45 + years a few lures , and a cell phone, my temper
And several Fish , 😜
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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 :roflmao:
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Come on trapp I’m I the only 1 that has dove for a fish
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i'll dive for a big gill ......
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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!)
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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
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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 !
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Pair of sunglasses 250$ ouch 20’down
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3 hrs later a bunch of maguiver stuff recovered 😎👍. The shades Note to self get a croakie for glasses
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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
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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?
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18’.down
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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.
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a little bit of sanity and and a good percentage of my adult life ;D
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a little bit of sanity and and a good percentage of my adult life ;D
X2!
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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.
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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. ::)
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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. :woot:
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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. :woot:
Oooooh...that sounds painful! :pinch:
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Hahahaha. :o
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Oooooh...that sounds painful! :pinch:
Why am I not surprised at this? ::) :roflmao:
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Why am I not surprised at this? ::) :roflmao:
:whistle: ;)2
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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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I lost a skimmer on Bay of Quinte one time but I jigged it back up again. Thought I had a walleye on for a minute there.
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Phones lol more than one!!
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One of my biggest pike and biggest walleye ::) .
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Phone. It was in my shirt pocket and my jacket was open, it was fairly warm. Bent over the hole and down it went, nothing but net. Cheapie but it had a nice movie making function that is not on its replacement.
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You should take up golf if you don't do it already
:roflmao:
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ALIMONY
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Question should be more like what have you not dropped down the hole?
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ALIMONY
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A pole or 2, a cellphone, countless jigs, and not down the hole but a few years back I left an entire shanty at Lake Luzerne lol
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Monster Walleye had to be bout 30”