What's the best set-up/gear you have ever found or snagged?

[DougH]

I've found a few good things, like a perfect old Shimano fighting rod witha Calcutta 200.

Anybody ever drag up a killer Loomis or anything like that?

[swimbait]

I caught two ugly stick combos on the hudd last year. Damn lure catches everything.

[Oldschool]

Last year I snagged a heavy 100 lb test mono leader attached to a spreader bar with 3 Optimum swimbaits at the deep cat ledge at Casitas. Looked a lot like the rig found at Castaic a year eariler with 5 Ospreys.
Tom

[Ron T.]

Old school , I found the same back side of Island with Rego bait in the center.
Doug H., any chance you found that Shimano and Calcutta 200 around Paleens at Casitas ?
I also found an original Castaic hard bait at Castaic last year when the water was way, way down .

[DougH]

Hey Ron,
No, I found it at Castaic when they had the lake low.

[JohNNy Utah]

*NM*

[Lance]

I found Gary Collins Rip bait rod in 50 feet 2 weeks after it went overboard

[TADTHEBASSNUT]

this year at a club tourny at havasu caught a pair of shorts off the botttom with a crankbait,with $180.00 in the pocket.

[tunaman]

Very cool Tad - welcome to Western Bass! Now you're officially a Nutcase also!!!

Roger

[vinnybass]

I found a 24P stainless prop at Mead about five feet up the bank. It was in good shape. Probably lost in about 25 feet last year & just got exposed in August when I found it.

[Greg E.]

Found a Shimano Stradic 1000 on a Shimano Stimula rod when Castaic was at its low last year. It had been there awhile but it cleaned up (with a lot of work) just fine. Use it as a guest rod and reel for new backseaters.

However, does not make up for all the stuff I have lost over the side over the years. If Any one finds a Loomis with a Curado SF up near the mouth of Elizabeth, it is mine.

Greg E.

[Robert F]

I snagged my own GLoomis GLX/Shimano Calais at El Cap last year. Probably doesnt count as a big find.....unless it is your own. Funny thing is I wasnt sick about it being gone. Just the two hours of fishing I wasted trying to locate it.

[brushhogxxx]

I was at Castaic, thought I hook a fish when all it was fishing line. I was pulling in the fishing line and it started to move. I fought a 4-lb LMB by reeling in the line by hand.

Fishing at Casitas and caught a Phoenix bait caster with a Calutta 50 and a chartuse spinner bait, thought I had a good one!

[Bill Brown Jr.]

Fishing San Vicente a couple years back I snagged a G. Loomis GL2 with a Curado 200B on it. It was hooked with a bait hook to an old anchor line that still had the anchor attached.

I lost that very same rig at Fisher's the following year.

Easy come, easy go.

[some guy]

one of my buddies lost a glx and stella and the next day i found it still floating!!! he was very stoked.