Whooops !

[Ron T.]

How many things have you guys lost while hauling a$$ to your next spot? Except for the obvious lucky hat with two years of hard earned mojo and an occasional pack of smokes or worms. Since bass fishing my list goes like this. # 6 was as of yesterday at Casitas.
1 / Cullemright scale
2 / Rain Jacket and several life jackets
3 / 250.00 sun glasses
4 / Cranking rod
5 / Shaking rod
6 / Plano box with 9 huds from R.O.F. 0 to 16's.
7 / Oh ya , Rob Tomlins cranking rod (cant forget that one, lord knows he wont)

[JeffJ]

Damn that sucks dude! I have been lucky so far. Knock on wood! Just a couple hats and my partner did lose his club jacket a few weeks ago.
Sorry again for the loose of the Hudds!

[Schneider Fishing]

Lost a partner once. (just kidding)
My list is kind of short.

B.A.S.S. Hat
Tilley Hat (twice - got one back)
Net (like I need one )
1 pack of beef jerkey

I had a partner lose a rod/reel while trying to net my fish (sorry Todd)
I lost a loomis Carolina rod and a Calais 200DC while trying to take a picture of my catch (got it back 10 months later)
Lost a phenix rod and castaic reel while retying. Partner got it back on a jig 15 minutes later at Mead.

I seem to lose my stuff while standing still.

Oh ya,
Lost my mind.

[Stratos278]

1. Hats (3)
2. Coffee cups (2)
3. Will-e-go board
4. License
5. Gloves (brand new - never worn )
6. Plano box full of crankbaits...box disintegrated, but I managed to net most of the baits..glad they floated

That's not counting the two rods I knocked off the deck but managed to recover

[mark poulson]

I dropped a brand new Falcon Rod and Quantum reel overboard in 100' of water at the mouth of Bones cove, near the outhouse, at Castaic in the winter of 2005.
The next year, almost to the day, Jeff Jue, fishing in 15' of water (the lake was down 85' for dam maintenance) snagged it with his jig.
We were both fishing there that day, and I called him on the way home to see how he had done.
When he told me he'd snagged a setup with a Quantum reel, I told him the rod was a Falcon, and the setup was mine. He wouldn't take anything for it, just gave it back, saying, "Dude, it's your rig. Period."
The reel was toast, but the rod, once I had wiped it down with WD40 and drilled two holes in the butt to drain out the water that had seeped in, was as good as new.
Talk about one in a million.
And I don't even want to talk about how many times I've cut the tag end off a lure and then thrown it into the water, only to realize, as it sank into the inky depths, I'd cut the main line.

[ROBTOMLIN]

Ron, It should read what you found like the livewell hatch that fell off my boat that you found walking the shore two months later, when the water was going down at castaic. Then you emailed me a picture on the week from hell at work. That made my week.. How about when I was lead core trolling and the line dug into itself. Snaped that plastic holder right off my boat. The winds blew at castaic for two weeks. When I finally went back with the camera got back the rod reel and the lure. Thats pure luck. What about the year you set my crankbait rod down with the lure in the water and used the big motor to move around the corner. That was a great sacrifice to the fish gods we won a boat that year.

[Ron T.]

Oh ya , thanks for reminding me about your cranking rod dude. That makes me feel much better Guess I'll add that one to the list as well. Those fish Gods are getting expensive.

[ROBTOMLIN]

A Ron how about the time the cull um rite got thrown in the water for not working right. Does that count?

[FinaticsClothing]

Lets see
drop shot rod with brand new real
I ripped the arm off my battery locker
and wrapped my trolling motor under my boat... woops...

[N.A.R]

Fishing Lake Martinez back in the 90's when the canals were tight. I was squeezing through and one of my rods grabbed a tulle and out she went without me knowing. On my way out of the cut, I noticed a rod... MY ROD

[Ron T.]

Nope ! that was the first one . That one was part of my anger management therapy and yes I felt much better. Castaic will never get low enough to recover that one .

[Ron T.]

Finaticsclothing , I gotta ask , how do you wrap a trolling motor under your boat ?

[Byron]

Let's see --- Maybe forgot to pull it up before blasting off to the next spot ? Been there - done that. Or beached it with the motor down ?

[ONTHETHING !!!]

Was out prefishing for the won clear lake this past may in a friends boat. We move a mile or so down the lake come off pad and I stand up to get on the back deck and my tackle bag is gone. Was sitting between us on the fold down seat . The whole bag blew out with 6 plano boxes full. My heart skips a beat and ask if we can go back, so we take off follow the gps and there it is still floating. Lost some worms and hooks but that was it. Lost a loomis crank rod with a curado in Franks Tract. ONTHETHING !!!

[ash]

Fishing Lake Martinez back in the 90's when the canals were tight. I was squeezing through and one of my rods grabbed a tulle and out she went without me knowing. On my way out of the cut, I noticed a rod... MY ROD

Same here!

[Greg E.]

Other than Hats the only thing I can remember loosing while on plane is a terminal tackle box. Bounced it out on a wave at Casitas. No big deal until I went to replace all my hooks and sinkers and had to spend over $500 just to get a basic box set up again.

But my list of kicked or dropped over the side is a different story.

1. Front pedestal seat with me in it and the rod and reel I was
holding and my glasses.

2. Me at Piru in January with the rod and reel I was holding
and my glasses.

3. Kicked a Loomis Rod and Chronarch over the side at Castaic

4. Kicked a Loomis Rod and Curado over the side at Cachuma.

5. Had a partner throw an entire rod and reel about 40 feet while
casting (he said it slipped)

6. Had another partner cast out a DS rig and lay it down on the
back deck to get a drink, I heard a little cussing and
turned around just in time to see a it go over the side and be
dragged away by a fish

7. Digital Scale.

8. Net

What I learned from this is that I am not meant to have Loomis and
Shimano stuff, always use a butt seat, leave the bail open if you
set a pole down and don't cast with greasy fingers.

Greg E.

[Team Fugowee]

I lost my non boater out of the boat at about 60 mph during a club tournament. I did turn around and retrieve her.

[FinaticsClothing]

Ron T: Byron was right I had 2 guys on my boat that weren't avid fisherman and I got slightly side tracked with them and tryed to jump on plane with the trolling motor down . Ya that trolling motor was about 6 months old. Anyways Live and learn...

[elfish16]

ok...lets see what I've lost.

-Shimano Stradic with a Fenwick HMX Spinning rod while on a guide trip...(the client was holding it and dropped it while on plane)

-5 hats

-3 Hudds

-Whole box full of Roboworms

-pliers

-hot sauce and Bam fish attractants

-sinking Rago trout

-two pairs of DSO sunglasses

-two beanies

-gold ring

-two nets (one hit me in the head on its exit overboard OUCH)

-Team Diawa reel

-many Weigh in Variance slips for tournaments

-back up boat keys

-two cell phones

Thats about it...I think pretty much topped the list of crap lost overboard!

Eric Elshere