Once it was lost but now it is found!!!

[RayB]

A few of you will have read my Awoonga report from Sept but I did leave out one notable event from the week due to extreme embarrassment. I decided to spend an afternoon with the local guide to get to know the lake and decided to take my new rod and reel with me, a Shimano T-Curve and a Daiwa CVZ205 (Jap model). After a couple of hours casting I decided to let rip with a long one and threw my rod and reel into the lake. The rod was too far away from the boat to just pick up and I thought I could have the boat moved into position and collect the rod. WRONG! It starting sinking of course, silly me of course it will! I panicked dived into the lake fully clothed, including hat, sunglass, mobile phone, wallet etc! Well, I did just throw over $600 overboard.

No luck, couldn't find the rod and my mobile was ruined! Not such a good day. I phoned the local dive shop in Gladstone and they put me in touch with a guy who would recover the rod for me for only $50. Sounds good until he calls up the day before I leave with a cold which means he cannot dive. My only hope now was the guide John Mitchell as we couldn't take GPS co-ordinates as he doesn't have one on the boat. Well, John spent a couple of attempts trying to retrieve the rod with no joy and I had given it up as lost. Now the good news, John called yesterday to let me know he had another dive and found the rod. Hurray! and all is in good nick, wouldn't have been the same result in salt of course.

Big thanks to John

Has anyone else thrown their rod overboard or am I the only clumsey one!

cheers
Raymond

[Roo]

worst nightmare

but funny when it's someome else

roo

[black_bass]

No but I did something worse maybe,I stepped on my brand new ian miller graphite(ever seen a grown man cry).

[Duyz72]

Ray - never thrown it all overboard, but like black bass I have stood a rod and stuffed it.
Of course when I put it down I was thinking to myself "I really shouldn't put it there, someone will end up standing on it"
But did I listen to myself - of course not!

[Big_Ren]

I'd be more worried about one of those big barra ripping it out of my hand in a half dazed moment trolling . Glad to see you got your prized possession back.

Cheers
Paul

[davez104]

Very lucky to have got it back. I had one go out the back of the boat while trolling one day, I was about three feet behind it and had hold of it before it had gone a foot under water. Lucky I was fishing with someone else as the boat was still in gear and chugging away down the river.

Dave.

[PlasticFantastic]

I was putting my rod in a holder on a jetty once thinking it was secure I let go only to discover it wasn't anywhere near the holder and dropped it into the water. Lucky it was shallow because the tip hit the bottom with the reel and handle floating there another fisherman was kind enough to catch it for me.

[iank]

Got cheesed off one day and threw a rod overboard on purpose, (saltwater) went back and picked it up a week later, stripped the reel and rebuilt it and am still using it today and is still as good as new.
Cheers Ian

[nigelr]

Never thrown one overboard, but had one dragged overboard by a large snapper (presumably)!
Went to grab it out of the holder when the fish picked up the bait and ran, had way more grunt than I appreciated and over she went, my fav 5'6" Ugly Stik with SS runners, thankfully not a fav reel, ONLY a $100 worth, man I felt damn sick! No way back from 20 mtrs!
That fish taught me to use reel retainers!
More sinister, it started a reel collecting addiction that I still struggle to control several years on!
But I learnt.......................!
Cheers and glad your story had a happy ending!

[timbacutta]

Had just turned around to do another trolling run along a stretch in Littabella creek one day and as I cast over my left shoulder somehow the rod and reel come out of my hand. Bye bye one ugly stick baitcaster and Diawa reel. An hour casting with the cast net trying to catch the lure attached to the line turned up nothing except some live bait. Oh well back to the tackle shop. Have been more careful since then.

Jeff.

[StevenM]

Yep

One real early morning at Monduran.

First cast of the day, go to swap hands from right to left and left was still asleep. Bloop.

Next ting me mate hears a splash and I am over the side.

Lucky braid floats.... no other goodies in my pockets except for a half pack of smokes and a full unopened and a lighter.

Climb back on board with braid in one hand.

Retreve lure first. Start retreivng line....remember that was only just swapping hands so not clicked into gear as yet. Hope I tied a bloody good knot on the spool.

A few minutes later feel a bit of weight and up comes me rod and reel.

Now we have 200 odd tards of line on the floor.

Click reel into gear and get mate to put some tension on the line and wind it all back on...No knots.

Pheewww.

Need smoke now....opps open pack goone. Open other pack...hey thats waterproof all ok.
Lighter..well shes wet no realllllll wet. Tried drying it out..naaaa.

Left it on the casting deck and it came good in about 4 hours.

The reel...well still havent serviced it yet and going great guns. The Curado 200SF went on to land a few fish that day and I was going to pull it apart and clean and lube when I got home. Any way that will happen one day.

Cheers

Steven


PS I woke up real quick after hitting the water and had me early moring bath.

[Great_White]

Hi Raymond, good story. I can remember fishing in the Brisbane River many years ago. I had the new rod & reel fly straight out of the boat and never to be seen again, all because I didn't loosen the drag enough

O well now I always check the drag prior to putting the rod down in the boat

Peter

[Far_Canal]

i had a dodgy old rod just fall out or get pulled out of the back rod holder in the tinny, it was the old mans so i thought i better get it, the best thing to do is just get the biggest lure u have, put a couple of sinkers (heavy ones) on the line and cast it out and retrieve and try snag the line, got mine back in about 5 mins

isnt it funy, the real was already about 7 yrs old, and this happened probably 3 yrs back now, in salt water, its an old heap of jarvis walker, never been looked after.....and shes still goin.

[Kendall249]

A mate and I used to reverse his ute up to the creek and put out as many rods as possible. One such night we were in the cab of the ute listening to music when we heard a strange noise, of course we disregarded it. After we got out of the cab we counted the rods in the back and realised that one was missing. So we tried a few different methods to reclaim the rod. After dragging the gafff in the shallows we managed to grab his line and too our amazement a barra of 63cm was still attached. talk about sheer luck.

[RayB]

Sounds like I am not the only one with disappearing rod stories although most stories were more glamorous than just chucking the rod overboard.

cheers
Raymond