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.
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I said oh "you know" and one of the other guys swated their lure at it in the water and snagged the upper eyelet on first try and pulled it out. Rod was in the water about 2 seconds then back in the boat, that's about as close as I want to come to losing one, but too close for me. 