Losing a fishing pole to a fish!

[SSG Stubbs]

Here is another one. Was fishing with my brothers in a boat. The front brother has his pole laying on the side of the boat and can hear a bite from the pole hitting the side of the boat. I tap his pole to make him think he has a bite and quickly reaches back for it. I laugh, he cusses and then sets the pole back down. My other brother taps on the pole and does the same thing. I laugh, he cusses and puts the pole back down. This goes on for a few more times. He actually gets a bite, he turns around to check his pole thinking it was us again so he is slow to react. His pole flies out of the boat and into the water. He jumps in after it and gets the pole and the fish. Cussing the whole time because he had his cell phone in his pocket.

[etucker1959]

I'm glad some people are getting with the spirit of the thread. I've got another story where we got the pole back. 3 years back we had some incredible coastal fishing for big game fish. (mostly Yellowtail but some YFT) I've never caught an YFT inside of Catalina Islands before. But in 2015 it was happening and I wasn't going to miss it. The Yellowfin Tuna and Skipjack were biting as close as 10 miles from the Newport Beach harbor. So I jumped on a 3/4 day boat with my friend Glenn. We got into the YFT not 40 minutes from leaving the harbor. Glenn get's bit before I do and unknown to me, he drops his pole in the water while he's fighting the fish. I then get bit and land an #25 YFT. After they gaff it, they notice another line coming out of the fishes mouth. They then start hand-lining the line and yup it was attached to Glenn's pole that he dropped in the water! Talk about luck in getting his pole back!

[billy b]

After many, many years of fishing ... I was casting off the pier at Jenks Lake and I lost my GLoom rod with Shimano Stradic reel ... expensive day!!! Dragged the bottom for hours ... went back the next day ... followed up with the ranger who said there was a guy who comes and drags for stuff like that. NO luck. My guess was that was too big of a payday for him to say anything.

[SSG Stubbs]

So who claimed the fish? Technically it was his first :)

[etucker1959]

So who claimed the fish? Technically it was his first :)

It went home in the same Ice chest and given away to good little boy's and girls. So it wasn't any issue at all! lol

[bowler]

I lost my pole to a carp in a pond that I was sneaking into before in West Covina. Then later that day I caught a snakehead out of the pond. True story

[NFCD I]

I lost a Phenix rod and a Curado Reel at Lake Skinner. My wife and I were striper fishing using swimbaits at the inlet. I had just told her to never leave her rod unattended. She was in the back of our boat and got hung up on the buoy line. I let my swimbait settle to the bottom and went back to give her a hand. I guess I don't have to tell the rest of the story.

[twin22s]

Lost rod to a stingray on san clemente pier, I had the reel in gear because the bait clicker on the reel broke earlier in the day. took my eyes off of the rod to tie up my second rig and look up to see it doubled over and then flip over the rail as i was heading over to grab it. It hit the water and was very slowly sinking, I grabbed my other rod and was going to cast it at the rig when i saw it shoot away from the pier into the abyss...

side story, I once threw my rod into the ocean trying to make an underhand cast and the hook caught a piling. I was able to wrap the line from my second rod that was soaking bait right next to me, around the rod as it was falling and reel it back to me...

side story #2, I have caught more rods(3) than i have lost(1), one total piece of crap push button, one surf fishing style spinning rig i was able to return to its owner after telling the story to some friends the following weekend. and one pistol grip rod with an original shimano curado bantam on it. reel was full of sand but 3 bearings, new drag washers and a ton of elbow grease i had it rocking and rolling and fished it for years before cannibalizing it for parts to fix my "vintage" castaic that i've had for 20 years and still fish to this day when pitching kelp from the jetty.

[DarkShadow]

I let my swimbait settle to the bottom and went back to give her a hand. I guess I don't have to tell the rest of the story.

From experience, some big ole catfish prolly ate it. Apparently they enjoy waiting for stockers to die and settle to the bottom, and they eat 'em, like Quagga eating wings during Happy Hour.

I had an incident at DVL where I tossed a 10" Triple Trout and created a 'professional backlash,' so while it settled to the bottom, I picked out the backlash.

After 10 minutes, I started reeling in, and thought I had caught a tree.

Instead, a submarine length catfish came up to the depths, with the Triple Trout sideways in it's mouth. The fish was so big that the Triple Trout looked like a Rapala in the fish's mouth.

(Then my buddy, being the biatch that he is, refused to help me, and the fish ended up swimming away with my TT after popping 30# test)

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But I didn't lose my 'pole' tho.