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groggyfrog
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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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tbern
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Jan 20, 2018, 10:24 AM »
Congrats on getting it back!
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ActiveTrapChecker
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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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westfish
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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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Jan 20, 2018, 03:01 PM »
Nice! Another plus for gps. Drop a waypoint, pick it up in the spring.
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mookie
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Re: Anchors- I mean "auger's away"
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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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eiderz
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Jan 21, 2018, 09:10 AM »
I have GPS numbers on two, neither of which was ever mine.. They make nice structure to fish.
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BWB-ice
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Jan 21, 2018, 11:45 AM »
That's a great story/post!!!
Well done!!!
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groggyfrog
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Jan 22, 2018, 05:42 AM »
Elderz. Seeing you have GPS on 2 augers, try the magnet technique. Works great.
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jedhead
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Jan 25, 2018, 06:32 PM »
Good job on not giving up!
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groggyfrog
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Jan 27, 2018, 05:45 PM »
Thanks. Anyone else in same spot, use technique. Simple, yet accurate.
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