Looking for any idea, suggestions, or methods used to, hopefully, retrieve a rod / reel which went overboard in 7-8 foot of water?
Looking for any idea, suggestions, or methods used to, hopefully, retrieve a rod / reel which went overboard in 7-8 foot of water?
Metal chain stringer open all hooks 1/4 rope sinker on the end .
Yes Sir. Just had good friend suggest that exact method except to attach a #10 treble hook bought at Walmart to each clip of the stringer.
I'd get a Snorkel and Mask and just go get in the water ! UNLESS, you cant see because it's too stained. I've retrieved two, by tying on a couple of super spooks and 3 oz of lead flipping weights and just dredge the bottom. Change angles after a few casts until you catch it.
Ranger Boats / Mercury Motors
G Loomis Rods / Shimano Reels
Raymarine / MinnKota Ultrex
Garmin / Live Scope Plus
Pepper Jigs / Robo Worms
Troll Bridge / V-T2 Vents
I got mine back with a 7/0 treble and a 1oz egg sinker attacked to a musky rod with 80# braid. Cast over it and drag the bottom till you bring it in. Hopefully there's not a lot of rock and stump, or you'll be screwed.
I marked the GPS as soon as it went over in a calm bay, went back the following day with the musky rod & got it back on the second cast. A word of warning - retrieve SLOWLY. You have no idea what part of the rod you will have snagged. I caught the stripper guide on a spinning rod. Lucky for me I didn't bend or break it.
Also lucky for me that no fish picked up the bait that was on the rod and swam off with it, or I for sure would have never gotten it back.
I also got one back using a large treble hood. I used a bench grinder to blunt the points down a little so it wouldn’t hang up so easily.
I've had success putting several heavy weights in front of a large crankbait with several trebles and dragging it thru the area where the rod is located. Helps a lot if the rod was in use and had a lure out with some line attached, bigger target.
Whew! Guys I want to thank everyone for their suggestions in my concern. That said, the old saying, "persistence is a virtue!" is so true. Long story made short, lost 2 rod combs on Sunday May 10 and spent 3 hours dragging light chain stringer w/#10 treble hook attached through various parts of area with no luck. Returned to area with same tool and method to work for 4 hours from first light and retrieved both combos. again thanks everyone.
Persistence does pay off, LOL !!! Congratulations !
Ranger Boats / Mercury Motors
G Loomis Rods / Shimano Reels
Raymarine / MinnKota Ultrex
Garmin / Live Scope Plus
Pepper Jigs / Robo Worms
Troll Bridge / V-T2 Vents
My wife.
A-rig.
Lake Norman, N.C./New Britain, CT.
An Khe 66-67
I use a painters pole extendable with a rake head on it or a clam digging claw that's how I got my last one back
1990 374V Ranger Still kickin' bass after all these years
Know some one with a old underwater camera , had a buddy drop one night fishing went back the next morning and drop the camera and there it was
1st thing if you see it go over the side... Hit a waypoint!
Old fashioned metal stringer
2019 Basscat Lynx
2019 Mercury 250 Pro XS 4s
SN: 2B586555