Gear you've lost over board over the years......

[RWilson2526]

Originally Posted by RidgeRunner

Six hunerd clams and a gas card that would have got us home from Bradenton. Truck at the time ran on pre-mix..

Man that's got to sting.

[Blue_Runner]

Couple of rods and reels, one was in the rocket launcher pulling a lure that was a little too heavy. The rod had a wooden handle which decided to snap in two.

Lost a brand new "outrodder" rod holder in 40' of water next to the jetties at Murrells Inlet. My buddy got a bite, got exited pulled the whole thing out of the rod holder. I asked him to retrieve it for me but he wouldn't.

Lost an old transom mount trolling motor on Lake Wylie. It is still there, right where I lost it. Took off with it down....heard a loud smack, looked back and the transom clamp was still clamped to the boat. LOL

[macojoe]

2 rod & reel set ups about 13 years apart. Set of keys from shirt pocket while leaning over to get fish. 1 cell phone, bought a nice pair of ss finger nail clippers $20 said no more rusting crap they were gone first trip out with them#@*&and some bait.

[bgreene]

See I'm not the only idiot............I mean typical of what happens on the water.

Writing of RETREIVING things, I'd like to dive the Shrewsbury Rocks, NJ, fill sacks with all the lost sinkers and have a boat pull the sacks back up.
Must be thousands of sinkers down there............to re sell to all the bait shops !

[mawshj]

A few years back ,my wife and I were fishing under the Chesapeake bay bridge and she hooked a BIG fish, she did not want me to help her. She tugged for 20 minutes to get it up, when it reached the surface, I saw it was a brand new Penn rod and reel, I ran over and pulled it aboard. My wife was so angry that she did not have a fish, she grabbed it and tossed it back. My brand new Penn lost !!!!

[Liam]

Lost a few hats but have always been lucky enough to circle around and retrieve them.
One time we were cod fishing 10 miles east of stellwagen and a back pack came floating by. We pulled it in and it had a wallet and a few other things in it. I got hold of the owner and they collected it from my house,i guess it fell overboard on a whale watch out of Boston,they were pretty surprised they got it back.

[RidgeRunner]

2 pairs of prescription glasses over the years. Lots of catfish grabbers and chum bags, rods and reels, pieces off reels, keeper fish.
Winter time in FL often means layering up.. So you start out in the morning with jeans and a jacket on over your shorts and you peel off when it warms up a bit. Left my wallet in the jeans and the jeans blew out of the boat on the way in.. I was 16 so the most I lost was my drivers license and a few bucks but the wallet was a hand made calfhide one of a kind.
Another good tale of a near miss-
We were in a NO WATER ZONE in Ruskin running inside from Bishops Harbor back to Cockroach. Apparently my tackle box blew off the rear deck of the flats boat. Lucky (or not) we ran one tank out of gas about the same time. I tried to switch fuel lines over before we came off plane but no luck, we had run aground. I got out of the boat and looked back to see this relatively large box floating half submerged on the flat behind us. 100 yards back. WTHeck is that? Oh that is the tackle box, wallet, truck keys, etc. We picked up the pace but going back to where the box sank involved a lot of pulling and pushing the boat that day, the tide was ripping out. Then disabling an aftermarket alarm system on the GMC that could only be disarmed with the now wet keychain fob, convincing the man that yes we are the owners of the truck not trying to steal it.. just because the boat was filthy and we were wet we didn't actually sink the boat or get into an accident, per se..
AND we were sotally tober, HUH?