Needing some advice on finding a lost rod...

[Oldyota]

So Wednesday night I was fishing at my favorite farm pond and hooked a nice 6.5 lb'er. I turned the boat to get a picture and I kicked my favorite spinner bait rod over in the water. Before I could grab it, it sank to the bottom. My buddy and I tried for 45 mins. to hook it with a treble hooks with no avail.. Going back out this afternoon with a metal fish stringer (kind with the snap hooks) and a rope. Bringing the wetsuit as well just in case... Oh course it was favorite revo reel on a nice shimano 7'... Any advice would be greatly appreciated..

Thanks

[tomsmithers]

How deep is it? How bad do you want it? LOL
You may need to go overboard

[Skeeter Man]

We knocked one overboard at T'sville a few years back and we took the biggest treble hook we had and a 4 oz weight in front of it and drug it on the bottom till we hung it. The treble hook was huge though. If you decide to dive for it be sure you have a buddy with you and use some safety precautions. It's not that valuable.

[Col Forbin]

Take one of those metal clip stringers, and open up the clips and bend them out a bit. Take a couple of 1 oz. (or Bigger if you can find them) and clip them to it. Hook it on some strong braid, or an anchor line and start dragging - Without current to move the rod around, and being contained in a pond - this will get it back.

[publican57]

Way to go on the fish.

Bummer on the rod and reel. Good luck.

Definitely make sure you have someone with you if you go overboard. Some guy got out of the boat at Taylorsville last year to unstick his rod and drowned.

[walkeraviator]

First, you invite me to join you on the farm pond... then i will tell you my million dollar secret to get it back...:-D

[Oldyota]

Weeeeehooooo!!!!!! Went out this afternoon with metal fish stringer with about 3 oz.'s of weight and a small rope, on the third pass I felt it hit something and then it got heavy... Pull it in and it had actually hooked the spinner bait and not the rod, but 3 ft behind the spinner was my favorite setup.... I didn't have time to fish, but did manage a 12" in 5 casts... Thanks everyone for your replies...

[Todd2]

First, you invite me to join you on the farm pond... then i will tell you my million dollar secret to get it back...:-D

LOL...

[Shaggy]

I had something similar happen to me on a watershed lake. I went back the next day with a metal coat hanger with probably 30 treble hoods attached and drug the area for a good hour before giving up and going fishing. On the way back in, fishing a Zoom Lizard rigged texas style, I snagged the line of that outfit and was beside myself. It wasn't an expense rod and reel but one of my favorites at the time. Go figure.

[walkeraviator]

I have recovered other peoples rods by hooking their lure with mine. And I can't count how many times I have gotten new lures by snagging line witha crankbait

[kybodyman]

Take a real long cane pole with a large hook taped to the end, turn it so the hook points up, and drag it across the bottom until you feel the pole you lost and turn it over and you'll get it.

[spinnerbaitguy]

Many years ago, a friend of mine and I were fishing Kincaid Lake in northern Ky in a 2 man Bass Hunter when a dangling spinnerbait helped pull a baitcasting outfit overboard. My friend was in the process of getting sick so after about 10 minutes of casting and trying to figure out exactly where the rod slid in, may have fallen based on the direction of the boat and a bunch of different equations, which we were clearly not qualified to interpret, we gave up and came home to Paris.
The next day, I talked him into going back up there and help me try to recover the lost baitcaster. We went back to the spot, near the beach, and within 2 minutes, I was able to snag the lost item with a crudely devised stringer with several attached but dangling treble hooks. We immediately went back to the ramp, loaded up and neither of us has ever been back to Kincaid.
I'll have to say, it was an amazing feat. My friend recovered from his illness after several days off work and we still fish together today....just not up there. Sorry for being so long with the story. This posting just stirred my memory.