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groggyfrog

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Anchors- I mean "auger's away"
« on: Jan 20, 2018, 10:19 AM »


Went to Black Pond in Middlefield yesterday. Popped 9 holes & added 10th. As soon as we finished & were pulling up the auger, the shaft came unscrewed from the head. 20' straight down like an arrow. My buddy decided to go get some rope and a large magnet. While he was away, I tied my bait bucket metal handle on to some line. After 10 minutes, the battle was on. I hooked her. She wouldn't budge though. Ended up snapping my ice line. My buddy returned with rope & 2 250lb. rated magnets. We tied each to opposite ends of the rope. After 15 minutes with so many hits on the auger & no luck, we tried a new approach. We originally kept magnetizing each magnet, thus acting as 1 large 1. I waited to he was attached to auger. I then lowered mine and was attached. We tried bouncing it a little & it worked itself free of the highly sludge filled sediment 20' down. 5 minutes later, bingo! Oh yeah. Rewarded with 2 pickeral all day & 1 auger!
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Offline tbern

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Re: Anchors- I mean "auger's away"
« Reply #1 on: Jan 20, 2018, 10:24 AM »
Congrats on getting it back!
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Offline ActiveTrapChecker

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Re: Anchors- I mean "auger's away"
« Reply #2 on: Jan 20, 2018, 10:26 AM »
Amazing you got it back, yet said that was the catch of the day worth mounting!

Congrats on the retrieval
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Offline westfish

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Re: Anchors- I mean "auger's away"
« Reply #3 on: Jan 20, 2018, 12:08 PM »
nice work - A buddy lost his and went back in spring with big magnet and was luckily able bring it back up...
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Offline FishingPhotographer

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Re: Anchors- I mean "auger's away"
« Reply #4 on: Jan 20, 2018, 03:01 PM »
Nice! Another plus for gps. Drop a waypoint, pick it up in the spring.
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Offline mookie

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Re: Anchors- I mean "auger's away"
« Reply #5 on: Jan 20, 2018, 11:52 PM »
There's a 10" strikemaster auger sitting on the bottom of Colebrook Res. that use to belong to my brother.
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Offline eiderz

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Re: Anchors- I mean "auger's away"
« Reply #6 on: Jan 21, 2018, 09:10 AM »
I have GPS numbers on two, neither of which was ever mine.. They make nice structure to fish.  ;D
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Offline BWB-ice

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Re: Anchors- I mean "auger's away"
« Reply #7 on: Jan 21, 2018, 11:45 AM »
That's a great story/post!!!
Well done!!!
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groggyfrog

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Re: Anchors- I mean "auger's away"
« Reply #8 on: Jan 22, 2018, 05:42 AM »
Elderz.  Seeing you have GPS on 2 augers, try the magnet technique.  Works great.
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Offline jedhead

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Re: Anchors- I mean "auger's away"
« Reply #9 on: Jan 25, 2018, 06:32 PM »
Good job on not giving up!
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groggyfrog

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Re: Anchors- I mean "auger's away"
« Reply #10 on: Jan 27, 2018, 05:45 PM »
Thanks. Anyone else in same spot, use technique. Simple, yet accurate.
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