Down the hole

[JJ Mac]

I was out fishing tonight and my friend's son dropped my spud down the hole. GRRRRR! What have you dropped down the hole lately? :eek: :eek: :eek:

[William H Bonney]

We did this thread last year, too. Quite entertaining if I remember correctly. Me, personally, only thing I've tossed in the drink was a spud.

[bgoodenow]

Sunglasses and a fisherman's multi-tool (pliers, knife, etc..)

[Fish Whisperer]

A reel, but not the rod, after spooling up with fresh line.

[Ralph Smith]

Once I hollard to my bud to lift his trap style shanty and I'd slide him a refreshing beverage:) You guessed it, they don't float! Then as he looked down to try and make a grab at it, in went his sunglasses. Not to long after that he lost a nice walleye. Guess he chummed it in:D

[twoteal]

A whole small tackle box full of tear drops and jigs! The bad part was I could see most of them still glowing. And a pager

[marty]

I lost my glasses down the hole. Bent over and they slipped off my face. After that I wore them with a cord around my neck:) A couple fellow last year lost their keys to their truck. I always keep an extra in my wallet now.........marty:D

[Happy Jack]

As I said last year it's a good idea to leave the hole doors closed until you are ready to fish. The roof support poles fit down the hole nicely !

[andy capp]

My buddy kicked a propane heater down the hols last year but we got it back. A couple lures, a friend dropped his sunglasses but caught them with his hook. I guess nothing of any real value.

[Treetop]

Let's see, while poking around for a snowed over hole from the day before, "yep it should be right about........yep there it was, spud slipped through the hands and gone. A friend dropped my mag light down the hole in thirty feet of water that stayed on and we could still see it. We had a smelt light for the rest of the night but didn't help we were fishing for walleye. Oh and then I was changing pimples and reeled the one up, took it off the line, took the minnow tail off and put it on the new one, then tossed the new one right in the hole. It helps to put it on the line first.

[live2fishdjs]

I'admit to throwing my buddies spud down the hole on Otsego lake this year making our "sturgeon aquarium".

Saturday night the fish were not biting and the beer was still cold so..., well my buddy put my wifes new pretty coo LED flashlight down the hole that she got for Christmas-from her dad (I was just borrowing it)-two of her brothers were also with me. I sure hope my buddy intends on replacing that, I've alredy agreed to buy a new one.

Another goo question is what have you lost that blew across the ice?:eek:

[redwing111]

While it may not seem to have much of a dollar value, you can quickly realize how priceless a Bic lighter can be while you watch it sink to the bottom of the lake. I manged to pick it up with a treble hook, pull it up inches from the hole, and have it fall back down at least ten times. When I finally got yanked it up thru the hole you would have thought I caught a whale from all the hoot'n and hollowerin'!!!

[SpartanAngler]

Went out to Muskrat lake this morning, and forgot to refill my lantern, well needless to say I had to use a flashlight to get set up, then after I set up my first rod.....kaploosh, in goes my flashlight.....fished until sun up with my lighter over the bobber

[skulldugary]

My wife and I were fishing Vinyard Lk in Irish Hills and I almost had a limit of gills,my wife had 3,sitting right next to me,using the same set up and was getting pretty steamed about her inability to catch fish.She then proceedes to drop her lighter that had a cover on it made of silver and turquoise that a close friend of ours had given to her and she really cherished it.We tried everything to get it back but it was a no go.I started teasing her about getting mad about not catching many fish and throwing the lighter in the hole.The more I teased the madder she got.Needless to say it was a pretty quiet ride home:mad:

[flyrod4steelhead]

Past couple years; Rod n Reel combo for walleye, and jiggin rapala. Ladel (sp), thanks to my son. Spud, flashligh, pliers, gaff and numerous tear drops, jigheads, jiggin raps and all other kinds of lures. I believe that is it. Or I should, I HOPE THAT IS IT, NO MORE LOL

[woodsman rick]

I fish alot (for 3 years now) with my 8 year old grandson, I think the only thing he has not droped in the hole is his lure:D :D . Now when he is with me I carry a good size magnet on a string & a large treble hook set-up, what I can't get with the magnet I get (or least try) to get with the hook. I'm thinking of getting a camera set-up to help me find lost items. I'm getting really good at this sport, but I would rather have him with me than not. Yes I did teach him the fine sport of hitting the open hole with a non-floating item.
Rick

[gomer]

seems like over the past few years i have dropped just about everything down an ice fishing hole that could fit......

some items include:

Cell phone, a box of approx 50 teardrops/sweedish pimples, Hemostats (did that twice), flashlight, a spinning reel, the drag adjustment knob to a spinning reel, countless other assorted lures, spud, a metal spoon (used to eat my soup).

The worst, by far, was my cell phone that I dropped down the hole last winter. At 80 dollars for a new phone........

also, a couple days ago i almost dropped the whole transducer to my flasher down a hole in 24 foot of water. The transducer came un plugged without me knowing and when i put it in the hole, it kept going and I managed to grab the very end of it just as it was about to go down. I have a zercom flasher, which is no longer made and the only place i found that sells parts for them, has transducers for 70 dollars. Glad i didnt drop it down the hole!

[mickdrosco]

Last summer my daughter, her boyfriend and I used our scuba gear to collect garbage off the bottom at the "smelt city" site on Higgins Lake. Along with hundreds of cans and bottles, we picked up eight ice scoops, three spuds, two propane heaters, a radio, a pager, forceps, fishing rods, sunglasses (..I wear my sunglasses at night?...), assorted lures, minnow buckets and other assorted garbage.

Just a plea for care... we are trying to reduce the amount of garbage in the lake associated with smelt fishing this year... do your part and haul away whatever you bring on the ice!!!

[gunrod]

Nice side business you have there. Let me know when you have some cheap rods for sale.

Last year Tattoo Mike and I were fishing Airport Bay off of Grosse Ile. Mike had the spear with him for pike but we never tied it off because we thought we were fishing water more shallow than the spear was long. The weeds on the bottom turned out to be much thicker/longer than we thought. Mike threw at a fish and the spear rested on the bottom. It took about an hour but we fished it out and the fish was still on the end.

[Burksee]

Originally posted by mickdrosco
Last summer my daughter, her boyfriend and I used our scuba gear to collect garbage off the bottom at the "smelt city" site on Higgins Lake. Along with hundreds of cans and bottles, we picked up eight ice scoops, three spuds, two propane heaters, a radio, a pager, forceps, fishing rods, sunglasses (..I wear my sunglasses at night?...), assorted lures, minnow buckets and other assorted garbage.

Just a plea for care... we are trying to reduce the amount of garbage in the lake associated with smelt fishing this year... do your part and haul away whatever you bring on the ice!!!

Mick, Sounds like the makings of a great M-S garage sale! I'm always in the market for a good used ice spud!

Note: If you leave the propane bottle attached to your heater it will float! It also makes it a little harder to go into a 6-10 hole!

[Slim Gem]

Don't laugh, but 2 weeks ago, while my son and I were at the channels of Gun Lake I had a nice bluegill on. Got it to the hole, bent over to lift it out, and SPLASH, there went my FRS radio, dead center into the hole. No bounce, or rim shot! Only 4 or 5 fow, but couldn't get it back. Probably would have worked anyway!
Son said, "No wonder you didn't answer me when I called"
Nice part is the good wife let me buy another set...much better set too!!
Gotta love her!!
tom

[pike buster]

Last year a friends daughter droped her cd player right down the hole and then later tried to drop her little brother down the hole fortunatly only one leg fits in a six inch hold. 13 and 8 years old.

[Ed Michrina]

A big 11" perch. Well I didn't drop it. He jumped in all by himself. As I went for him the rod I was holding hooked my Slip bobber rod and sent it 1/2 way into the other hole. I elected to grab the rod instead of the perch. The worse part is that perch saw what I look like, Hope he dosen't tell all his friends.

[jpollman]

At this point I guess you could say that I've been lucky. I've never lost anything "down the hole". Oh wait, unless you count A WHOLE LOT OF MONEY ! I'd be better off just pitching handfulls of 10's and 20's down there. It would be faster and could just get it over with all at once. Then I could go home and get warm ! :)

[tangleknot]

My right leg twice and my left leg once. A very "odd" feeling stepping into a hole.

[UnkaD]

This year I lost my tackle box full of jig's Raps.(9) bobbers, I mean the box was full. We went to check on a tip up and the shanty went over and in went my box we were in 8-9ft of water. The visability was only 3-4 ft. so I couldn't see the bottom. i tried a tri hook on a rod with no success so we packed up and left. Well I couldn't just let it sit at the bottom of the Marina so I put a treble hook on the end of a 10ft conduit and freezer sealed a mag light to send down on a rope and try to see the box and hook it. Went to the same spot Mon. after work found the holes drilled and cleaned them put the conduit down and felt bottom at first it was mush-mush-mush-then thud-thud-thud pulled the conduit up and the tacle box was hanging of the hook might say it was the best catch of the season. By the way if you need to borrow my gear retriever you can PM me maybe a patten is in the works:D

[E Man]

Last Saturday Fishnnut lost my spud and my last two depth finder wieghts in the drink. suminabich:mad:

[Buzz]

I lost my brand new ice scoop last year. I propped the scoop under the door on the floor of my bosses shanty to hold it open. Well a little wind picked up-shook the shanty- Plup down the hole. He laughed is butt off. Then we both left the shanty to check the tip ups. Look back there goes the shanty. The wind flipped the thing over and over for about 100 yards. All our gear,heater,lantern,minnow bucket,you name it was on the ice. We still laugh about it.;) Buzz

[William H Bonney]

Thats pretty funny, Buzz. Wait until the wind starts blowing from the east,,, out at Metro Beach,,, everyone thinks they're safe and they NEVER anchor they're shanties. I bet I saw,,, at least 5 shanties smashed into the rocks last year at Metro, from the wind.

[Ed Michrina]

A big jigging rap works great for recovery!

I think this should include how many jigs ect. we lost due to burning our fihsing line when it touched the line to the heater:(

[Bolo]

I donated a brand new (about 1 hour old) ugly stick combo in Saginaw bay last year. Fish on..................Fish gone.............Rod & reel gone! Word of advice, don't leave your rod sitting on a bucket next to the hole...... well.......unattended anyway. Bolo

[Ricky Missum]

Many moons ago, in my youger years, many miles out on Sag. Bay, after gettin set up, me and cuz, we made a "offering" to the fishing "gods" The way I understood it, the Indians, before a big hunt, would make a offering to the "gods" in hopes that the hunt would be excellent, and as cuz put it "at least we can say we caught something" Well as luck would have it, after our first "offering" the rest of our "offerings" in a nice shiny brass case, ended up at the bottom of the bay! After sitting, and watching several hundred perch stop by, check out the "offerings" and move on, it was something that was lost forever, but never forgoten! At least that's all I can recall from that trip!

[rkowal1250]

A Mag Lite, Ice Skimmer, numerous jigs and lures. :(

[Mule Skinner]

Been lucky so far,just an ice skimmer and a few depth finders. My buddy dropped my spud in Lake Columbia , back in the late 80's.

[discdrag]

my spud-last year i let my bored little brother go and poke some holes, i hear thunk, thunk, thunk, crap! turned around just in time to see the handle disappear into 40 FOW:p o well, got a new one, no harm done

[B. Stringer]

Worst thing was my Coleman Northstar lantern on its maiden voyage. went back the next day and fished it out luckily it was only about 8 fow. Had to replace the glass but still use it to this day.

[tommyboy]

Bought a used shanty for $15 as a teenager. On my first trip out dropped one of the many poles down in Evans Lake. Learned to move my shanty away from my holes before tearing down my shanty.

[fairview253]

I lose at least one depth finder (depthers as my buddy calls them) each year, usually due to my flailing around like a wounded elk in my shanty, and pretty soon...sploosh, down it goes. I usually forget about it until the next time I am out fishing and I reach for the depther and it isnt there and I pimp slap myself for being such a knob. They dont cost much at all but dang if they arent one of the most valuable pieces of gear in the bucket.

[buddhabelly]

Well so far this year its only been a Leatherman and a leaded depth weight. Last year it was KBKrause's latern in Hubbard Lake.
Hopefully nothing else.:(

[Fishfoote]

I haven't dropped anything yet..knock - couple years ago, my brother-in-law dropped and retrieved his frs radio...still worked too! I like fishing out of the those 10" holes, but got to say their similarity in size to my vexilar make me nervous.

[MGV]

My lower half of my body. Boy that can be cold. Other than that just some depth fiinders.

[Rat Fink]

This sunday while fishing crystal lake I bent over to pick up something in my shanty and splash , there went my 200+ dollar cell phone in the drink. Perfect bullseye in the hole too. Dove in up to my shoulder but just watched 100+ phone numbers that I never wrote down sink down to bottom 42 feet away. Last time I put my cell phone in any pocket not in my pants. Fortunately I was a smart boy and bough the insurance for it so it only cost me 35$ to replace it.

[greeneman5]

last year i was fishing with my dad in his shanty, he had his new cell phone in the tit pocket of his bibs, bent over to unhook his line from some ice, and sploosh.....he turned to me slowly and said "nothing but net"....lmao...so i had my cell phone, and thought id be a smart ass and see if any fish would answer the phone...he,he,he!! i cant remember, but i think i heard it ring once,....at least i like to think that!!

Then this week end my boy thought he'd see if grandpas all metal scoop would float like daddys plastic 1!!!lol....


myself, ive only lost fish....

[jpollman]

greeneman5,

Kids. You've GOTTA love 'em ! :)

[ih772]

Sent one of my favorite teardrops to the bottom with waxie still attached. Stupid hot lantern!!! :mad:

[bgoodenow]

You guys had to go and start this thread again, didn't ya?! This afternoon I had my coat on a hanger on the center pole of my Shap. Of course the $349 cell phone was in the pocket. Well, like a dop I decided to try and hang my spotlight too, which made the pole fall down. So as the whole shanty collapsed around me and my coat fell to the floor, the phone jumped out of the pocket and straight into a hole. The odds had to be like a thousand-to-one, but it sunk like a little electronic rock...

[ESOX]

Originally posted by bgoodenow
The odds had to be like a thousand-to-one, but it sunk like a little electronic rock...

I think the odds are that anything dropped within 12' of a hole is going in. I think left over ice holes are where black holes come from. They migrate into the cosmos in the spring. I can prove it too. Ever see one in the summer? Where do you think they go? Are we putting the universe in peril by ice fishing??? Geez I sure hope Green Peace doesn't get wind of this...:eek:

[michiduck]

Cell phone for me too

spudding out a hole and got warm so i took my coat off and the phone which was in the breast pocket of my bibs wiggled its way out one bounce and sploosh.... never did catch anything that day wither...think the fish ordered pizza:D


hey Esox....step out of that enclosed shanty quick, your heater has a leak and the fumes are going to your brain :D :p

[twoatatime]

Lost a rod holder at the basin. A tip up in simcoe. 3 friends lost their rods that same weekend. Lost an old fashioned steel scooper and a lighter.

[jeremy L]

Haven't dropped anything worth while down a hole yet. Last year i did drop a do jigger down the hole after trying it to 5 feet of line that i thought was part of the rest of the line on the reel, nope, watched it flutter to the bottom in about 12 feet water. tried to jig it back out, but never did get it.

I do get worried when i take my dig. camera on the ice with me, i try and keep that as far as poss. away from the holes while in my shanty.

[ifish4eyes]

spud, flashlight, fish took buddies rod, pliers, a legal pike i had just caught, all over a few years.

[Bob T]

I have dropped way too many cigars down the drink. Don't know if this counts as they float real nice but are hard to light after that, ha ha

Bob T

[Spanky]

a few yrs ago, I lost a nice spinning reel and rod combo down a 10 inch hole after a trout grabbed it. Had it reeled up to about 6 inches from comming out of the hole. so the minnow would stay alive while I enjoyed a "toast" with a few others who were along that day. Sure enough, after a big swig off the snapps bottle, I hear everybody yelling at me and turn around to see the end of the rod already in the hole and the handle bobbing up and down like a sewing machine. I started running to the hole( it was very wet and slippery...last ice) just as I was starting to slide to a stop, up goes the handle and straight down into the hole it goes!

I drive my arm into the hole as far as it would go, and just feel the end of the rod tap my fingers as it takes off. I was mad, wet, and embarrassed. I had to return to the "toasting circle" to endure the jokes and comfort myself with more snapps!

It was on Gull Lk. Barry county and I seen a few more rods go in that year the same way, just glad I learned my lesson on that.:p

[zman]

I have lost (1) cell phone, (2) lanterns, and too many single jigs that seemed to be the "right one" as I attempted to thread my 2lb test through the hole with numb fingers.



Take care

Zman

[Wishn I was fishn]

Just lost my two way radio on LSC this afternoon. But before this thread came up I had never lost anything. Mayebe I subconsionsly
meant top drop it down the whole so I could post on this thread.:eek:

[ozzgood2001]

ah thats ok saturday i dropped my fairly new( 6 months or so) olympus digital camera ( value 281 buxs) "down the hole":eek: . well its still there 20 foot down resting nicely in some sediment...the girlfriend took it quite well and let me order another one tonite..whew. what a woman to undestand and not fly off the handle. these things happen and its part of going out and enjoying the outdoors. i was pissed for a bout an hour and said nothing but i guess you realize you can do nothing so get over it. we even tried a aqua-vu to no avail but oh well the sun still comes up tomorrow

[quest32a]

That sucks ozzie, i remember when you had just ordered that one.

[ozzgood2001]

yeah it really does suck instead of spending 300 on one camera i now spend 600 on one camera worth 300. plus i just got a set of good rechargeables and 2 of em were in it plus the memory card which thank goodness i hadnt upgraded yet. no pictures were on it at least:D

[RichP]

I was out fishing this weekend, and while I was looking down at the holes I was thinking of this thread, because I thought it was weird how I've been out ice fishing for so many years and I've never lost anything. No more than a half hour later I stood up from my bucket and kicked it and the rod holder on it tumbled right down the hole. It was like slow motion -- I dove to grab it to no avail. No biggie, only like $3 at Meijer -- it was more funny than anything considering I was just thinking about it. Should have knocked on wood...

[jeremy L]

Haven't dropped anything worth while down a hole yet

I wrote that a few days ago, Then i went fishing yesterday, Guess what happened:eek:

I was fighting a laker and somehow a hopkins spoon got caught on the rod tip and when the laker shook his head the lure went down the hole.:eek: :(

Not 30 min. later, one of my rods which had a minnow on it went flying into the hole and i just caught it when the reel was near the bottom of the hole. Got the rod back, but lost the fish that did that.

I think this thread is cursed. It should be closed now before it can take its toll on anyone else;):eek: :D :D

[jpollman]

My last post on this thread was just a bit sarcastic. But I'm not making any more posts about "down the hole" experiences. Apparently it's BAD MUGAMBO ! ;)

[Nucleus]

Beer?

[Rat-Man]

Well in my younger days of fishing with my uncle we were in the shanty on Sage lake spearing pike , my uncle said lets change seats and you watch the hole I'll take a nap. This put him on the opposite side of the shanty , then someone knocked on the door and he must have been in a deep sleep because he got right up to open the door and steped right in the hole and gone he was! He went all the way under !!!!!!!!!, after he got out I asked him if he saw any fish while he was down there.
So I guess you could say I almost lost an uncle ! Other then him the only thing I've lost is a top to a real that went down while perch fishing with my 5yr old grandson, and while I was trying to get it out of 12 ft of water, I could see it on the bottom , he was hammering the perch. He is 12 yrs old and he still remembers the day he out fished his grandpa.

[Walleye123]

i never liked that darn phone anyway, who takes a cell phone fishing period! It should be banned.