Did the same two weeks ago. We both jumped for the rod. Wife took the worst hit. Slipped and fell, clipping a glass which we usually never have onboard - 16 stitches just below her pretty lil behind! Sooo, if anybody snags an old Skyline graphite baitcaster....

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Did the same two weeks ago. We both jumped for the rod. Wife took the worst hit. Slipped and fell, clipping a glass which we usually never have onboard - 16 stitches just below her pretty lil behind! Sooo, if anybody snags an old Skyline graphite baitcaster....

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WHAT<<<i don't believe it i gotta call her,,,,,lololol

 

When I was about 10 we were camping, I snuck my uncles brand new rod and reel out of his tent when he was sleeping, loaded a hook up with corn for a carp. Set the rod on the edge of a little bridge, you know the rest.

 

I once lost a rod overboard at Mosquito while drifting. Threw out the anchor, tied on a Sonar(if you've used one, you know they grab onto anything on bottom!), started casting upwind, letting it sink to bottom and reeling/dragging it back slowly. Hooked the rod, reeled it up slowly, then proceeded to wind in a(all of two pounds!) common carp! Wanted to make one of those insurance ad wall "mounts" but released it unharmed![emoji4][emoji4]

 

Funny stories.....can you say ROD HOLDER? LOL

 

Many years ago we were fishing for walleye on lake erie on a charter boat. Wife was sitting on the engine cover holding her rod and the captain said he was going to put out a bottom bouncer. He put it out and laid it on the engine cover beside my wife and ask her to keep an eye on it. Well she did keep an eye on it as it went over the side.

 

Years ago, while fishing Olcott in the fall for kings on the pier, old buddy was using the 'bottle' method and didn't leave the bail open. To make a long story short, the bottle dropped and WHEW! That rod shot into the river like a rocket! Never seen a pole take off like that in my life. We both sat there in shock before cracking another beer lol.

 

We were spring jigging in the spring on the Sassy Sal a few years ago then someone hooked a rod. They brought it up to the boat, and sure enough, there was still a walleye attached! I posted about it here on OGF and the guy who initially lost the rod replied saying he had lost his rod that a monster walleye tore out of his hand. The fish was only 24in or so, but still pretty crazy that we caught his rod with the fish still attached!

 

Well hey, at least someone got my nice St. Croix Eyecon, Diawa reel, Captain Jays blade bait and a fun story out of the deal. Cold hands jigging at Toussaint and I swear Nessie grabbed it. One mans pain is another mans pleasure

 

I've lost several out of rod holders, sometime the planner board like can catch them and fling them out. I know tie my dipseys rods in.

 

Think it's time to invest in some new rod holders my friend lol

 

Perching with two rods can have the rod over board effect. Set one down last year while reeling in a perch on the other rod and wham rod over board. Clipped on a Vibee and casted out 37FOW and hooked the line. Pulled it in and recovered rod with a nice 13" perch still attached. Talk about luck!

 

last summer at westbranch I had my cat rod go into the lake. after twenty minutes of scraping a branch in the water I went in after it. I had a large bobber on so I could see that the fish was still on...so I swam out and grabbed the bobber then swam back to where I could stand and pulled the fish in. 7 and a half pound channel. then back out to the water and pulled my rod back in...suffix fishing line good stuff. all this I got on my phone lol. one day ill try to upload the video.

 

Kind of funny seeing all these stories. It sucks indeed. Not only is it the "one that got away" it's also the one that stole my rod lol.

 

fishaholic that's funny stuff there , I fished up there with the locals doing the bottle method, on a good night ya can hear tink, tink up and down the wall..

 

Last winter my brother in-law and I were fishing from a small boat for Spanish mackeral on the Gulf coast canals. Useing live shrimp and a bobber. He laid his rod across the gunwales to get a drink and a fish hit his shrimp so hard I saw the rod take off like a rocket. We kept following the bobber for an hour or so but each time we approached the fish would dive. I still won't let him live that one down! Those fish hit do hard even when you're holding the rod they about jerk it out of your hands.

 

Fishing a up ground reservoir with plenty of rocks to wedge a rod down between them. I set up the rod to hold only the reel and handle. I was setting up the 2nd rod and in the corner of my eye I saw the other rod bent in half. It was something huge! Before I could put the 2nd rod down and get over to that rod, the rock that had held the reel and handle rolled off. It was like a giant spring. It hit the water about 10 ft out. All I saw was a trail of air bubbles!

 

Was

went out today after reading this thread and ended up losing one of my rods overboard. y'all are bad luck

 

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went out today after reading this thread and ended up losing one of my rods overboard. y'all are bad luck

Lol. They talked up something for you huh?

 

my poor butt!

 

it was probably this HUGE sheephead that cost me 16 stitches and hubby's pole! OMG

 

ya know if that fish did that too me I would pound it to paste, lol hope your stitches feel better, had to cut out 3 trebles out of a friends face once. made my eyes water

 

Perching last year, my friend loses a rod and reel in Lake Erie. A little later, he and my cousin get bites at the same time. My friend reels in the perch on the dropped pole , and my cousin reels in the rod and reel !! A few minutes later i catch a 30" walleye on a perch spreader !! What a run of luck !!

 

I was fishing a pond once and set out a catfish rod on a bobber, opened the spool and left it to go cast for some bass. When i went back the rod was gone. As i was sitting there in disbelief, I noticed the bobber about 2 feet under the water going back and forth.. snaged the line, pulled the rod up and about a 4 pound channel cat was attached. Last time I ever left a rod unattended on purpose! My girlfriend always yells at me when I set a rod down in the boat, she always says a fish is going to grab that and yank your rod in, she's probably right

 

A properly set drag and clicker switched on will usually prevent this, along with a holder angled above 45 degrees helps too.

 

My friends rod got pulled in off the Fairport short pier, steelhead pulled it in, landed 15 ft from pier. The look on his face was priceless, he said that fish had to be over 10 lbs to take a rod that fast. He was complaining that his wife was going to be pissed, she just bought him the combo 2 weeks before. About 10 minutes later a guy up the pier is fighting a fish, we notice another line when it jumps and think it has tangled with my friends rod, we bet the fish for him and the fish actually hit another jig while pulling my friends rod, both jigs in its mouth. That 10 lb steelhead was only 19".

 

Was fishing Lake St Clair a number of years ago and one of my buddies caught an expensive spinning rod & reel. Back at the boat ramp later I heard a guy in the boat ahead of us griping about losing his favorite spinning rig. We asked him what he lost and he described my buddies catch right down to the lure that was on it. The look on his face when we produced his rig out of the bottom of our boat was priceless....

 

fishing off of Frankfort pier in MI with live alewives. cast my rod out and set it down for a second. it shot off the pier 25 foot before it hit the water never to be seen again....damn KINGS

 

Lost a really nice UL off my dock. Was pan fishing and set it down to bs with a dock mate and there it went. I should have known better due to catching a 6lb channel cat there earlier this summer....