A story of a lost pole.LOL

[MrMarty51]

Found this in the Billings Gazzette and thought it is a MUST share for all of those who`ve lost something down the hole.
http://billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/03/06/features/outdoors/24-lostfound.txt

[pooley]

that is funny!!! the odds against it happening are huge!

                                        rod holder below
                                                 
                                                   

[powderburns]

 Lucky, better run out and buy a lottery ticket.

[AirManCam]

Can't be that rare, it happened to me. My deadstick got spooled, and then 2 hours later I got a flag, pulled it up nothing and then my line was there and my buddy pulled up the line and got my jigrod and I was fighting the fish for a halfhour and it turned out to be a 29" laker. I got a nice fish, and my jigrod back so it all worked out fine!

[bucketbass]

NICE, whats the odds????ive caught a fishing pole ,seen my uncle catch a tackle box once, never do i get my things back that ive lost

[gonephishin19]

Thats awesome... he should deffinately but a lottery ticket

[chezmoose]

Reminds me of a story from my childhood - I'll try to keep it short! 

When my parents first got married (early 1960s) my mom told my dad the only way she'd go fishing with him was if he bought her a pink fishing pole. Well, he managed to find one, so she was obligated to go. My sister and I both learned to fish with that pink pole with the black zebco reel. One summer we were 'home' on leave (Air Force family) and were fishing on the banks of the Muskegon River by my grandparents' home. My dad had caught some crayfish and I wanted him to put one on my line. He said he would, but that I had to sit and watch my pole, because if something bit it, it was going to be big.

So he propped the pink rod on a forked stick and I sat and watched it. Well, being a kid, I eventually lost interest and joined my sister in playing on the bank. Suddenly there was a big SPLOOSH! and my dad saw the pink pole fly into the water. He jumped in after it, but wasn't quite quick enough. He put on some big treble hooks and tried to snag it with no luck. Grandpa brought down his row boat and they tried dragging for it. Nothing. The pink pole was gone. I felt awful.

The following spring they let the water level down at Hardy Dam to break up the ice. My grandpa always walked the banks at low water to find lures that people had lost to the stumps and logs. That year he found THE pink fishing pole!! The reel was full of sand but he managed to get it cleaned up and kept it for us until the next time we came home.

I do have a somewhat longer attention span now, but of course I'll never live down losing it in the first place!

[Slammerman]

I've seen and heard of so many people having fishing poles yanked down the hole by fish, pulled into the river, knocked off the pier, over the side of the boat, etc. One word always comes to mind - IGNORANCE

GET OR MAKE A SOLID ROD HOLDER AND USE IT!!

IMHO - If you have your bait in the water and lay your rod on the ice, then you deserve to lose it when a fish yanks it down the hole.

[AirManCam]

I've seen and heard of so many people having fishing poles yanked down the hole by fish, pulled into the river, knocked off the pier, over the side of the boat, etc. One word always comes to mind - IGNORANCE

GET OR MAKE A SOLID ROD HOLDER AND USE IT!!

IMHO - If you have your bait in the water and lay your rod on the ice, then you deserve to lose it when a fish yanks it down the hole.

So I'm ignorant becuase I had a SOLID ROD HOLDER that was drilled into the ice, but yet I had a laketrout come into the shallow water and hit my pike shiner, and spool my reel that had a couple hundred feet of line on it, and rip it out of the holder into the water..dude stop being such an arse.

[Quack_Attack]

Well, this is sort of a lost pole story. Lost and found.

Back when I was in my 40's a gentleman about my age now 65 invited me out to a private lake to fish. The fishin' was slow and we were doin' a lot of hole hoppin'. Well, bein' polite I asked my host if he wanted a slug from my bottle of Schnapps, knowing he liked his libations. After a rather large swallow he turned to go back to his hole, his eyes got big as he turned to me and said "My pole's gone". I couldn't help but start laughin' as he had been gettin' ready to move and he had carried his pole over to me with him to get a sip of Schnapps and it was sittin' behind him on the ice where he had just laid it.

Now that I'm his age I can readily see how he would make that mistake as I sometimes have trouble remembering what I walked into the other room for.  

[Slammerman]

So I'm ignorant becuase I had a SOLID ROD HOLDER that was drilled into the ice, but yet I had a laketrout come into the shallow water and hit my pike shiner, and spool my reel that had a couple hundred feet of line on it, and rip it out of the holder into the water

Do you still set-up like that?? If not - then end of ignorance.

This is TOUGH LOVE BABY!!

EVERYONE should have their rod supported or held tight enough JUST IN CASE an UNEXPECTED BIG FISH TAKES YOUR BAIT!!

I'll be the first to admit on being ignorant on MANY occasions. Thank goodness I've learned my lessons. Some at quite the cost, but I've NEVER lost a rod due to a fish taking my bait.

I DO FEEL SORRY when someone loses a rod, but in that situation, the fish obviously DESERVED TO WIN. They got schooled by a fish and I hope they learned their lesson.

[snot rocket]

I'm still waiting to catch a fish wearing my $500 prescription Bole' sunglasses that I lost down a hole last year. 

           Snot Rocket

[oneman]

I would have thought the hook would have rusted out in 2 weeks, or the line snapped after being drug over rocks. I did have a friend lose a rod down a hole at 1 local lake, then the following spring at a diifferent lake he heard some guy talking about how he caught a ice fishing rod while out on his boat exactly where my buddy lost his rod. It was the same rod and reel type so I'm sure it was his. He was to embarrased to ask for it back. finders keepers.

[panfishman13]

i always tie my rods to a bucket or the sled. i still haven't lost a rod.

[Quack_Attack]

Have yet to use a rod down a hole. My solid rod holder is a plastic paint bucket (place the rod across the topw/the spinning reel hanging inside) I anchor the bucket with a Schnapps bottle and a couple of cans of beer inside for weight.

This also keeps the reel outta the snow and slush.

If ya use two rods ya need two pints of Schnapps and a couple o' more bottles of beer. If yer a big drinker this system may not work.