Lost rod and reel

[notrailer]

To make a long story short, through a series of unfortunate events, one of my spinning combos fell overboard yesterday on Gervais. I almost went in the drink going after it. It has a cork grip, but not enough to make it float apparently. If anyone runs across a rouge spinning setup on Gervais let me know and I'll identify it.

Thanks,

Nate

[BoxMN]

Bummer Nate! We have had several rigs go overboard as well, some little kids stuff, and a couple nice "big boy" rods. It makes your heart sink every time.

[Pherris]

Sorry to hear about your rod but glad to hear you did not "go in after it" That could have cost you a lot more then the price of a rod and reel combo. Water temps om area lakes can be deadly this time of year. Just a reminder to all my fellow FM'ers

Good Fishing and again sorry to hear about the rod.

[notrailer]

Yeah, it was a nice day, but the 55 degree water wouldn't have felt good. I have its watery grave (out from the beach) marked on my GPS.

[polarsusd81]

I saved one last year for a fellow FMer on Demontreville. Get yourself a couple big daredevil spoons and a big weight and start dragging bottom. I hooked in to the one I saved last year on about the 10th cast. It was a Shimano Cumara/Stradic combo. Saved the guy about 400 bucks over buying a new one.

[eyebjim]

One thing that works well for this is a crank bait retriever. It is basically a 3-4 inch d-ring with a big treble hook off each end. Cost about 5 bucks and saves cranks and fishing poles.

[Roddropper]

Hope to start a detailed search in the near future.

I'll need your location mark!

[JimBuck]

Ouch. It's always tough. I recommend finding a friend with a camera and dragging some daredevils. Nice work on your part to mark the gps point. If I lived in the area I'd swing by and give a look with my camera....good luck in recovering the setup.

[notrailer]

Thanks for the advice. Roddropper, we'll need to head out and see if we can snag it sometime. Who knows, it might be fish holding structure by now!