a reason why it is a good idea to bring snorkeling stuff fishing!

[carpmanjake]

whenever you fish on a small, shallow, heavily fished river, be sure u bring your diving gear!

first time:

and i thought i found ALOT last time i was river fishing!

and look the this beautiful antique!

[ozzie]

wow why buy rapalas and runners I guess just go to the river get snagged and go get the snag out huh!! nice take man!!

[wplatehunter]

Nice Find. Good for you.

[Scott M]

Nice finds jake. Thanks for sharing. That's pretty cool. My old man talks about doing some diving from all the plugs hes lost on some stumps on a lake by the family cabin.

[Jethro80]

Pretty cool, just like opening a time capsule

[carpmanjake]

there is still a huge mass of line and lures down there. but we had to leave, they will be there next time

[jwmiller33]

thats awesome nice work jake

[fishnhooks]

That's pretty cool Jake. Now you will have to try to find a larger tackle box down there to put your treasures in

"hooks"

[JeffB]

Great job I'm glad to see someone getting that stuff out of the rivers. Be careful, looks like some nasty stuff to be swimming around.

[NELS-BELLS]

I have a couple buddies who grew up in Milaca, (brothers) and they had a big net hanging on there ceiling and down part of the wall of there bedroom that was decorated with hundreds of lures that they had found while snorkeling in the Rum river and on the rock reefs of Mille Lacs. The good ones they put in there tackle box, the rest they hung on the net. Mostly rapalas. They also had dozens of anchors, even a couple rod and reels. One was a G Loomis with an Abu Garcia spinning reel that they found on Rocky reef at Mille Lacs. It looked like it had only been in the water a couple days.

I always keep a small pair of gogles in my tackle box just in case.

Nels

[cheddar 86]

Thats really cool! You should've taken a note on how the brush or whatever (rebar?!) was sitting - clean them all off and stick them right back where you found them....haha you would have a never ending source of free lures. No but really I'm sure you're not that kinda guy....but me being a musky guy I might try building a welded rebar "structure" - you've just given me a bunch of evil ideas! (not gonna do them though)

[mrklean]

nice catch jake

[CrowRiverRat83]

Good job! Got me thinkin.

[ac777]

Wow, just thing of the thousands of lures down there. Thats awesome! Were u using scuba gear or just diving?

[broken_line]

thats sweet! my dad used to do that and got tons of jigs and rapalas off the rocks!

[jigginjim]

Good going Jake. Add some one hooks to the crankbaits if needed. When I was growing upin New London, I would pull lures down off the trees over hanging the Crow river, easy way to fill up the box.

[youngie22]

Can I have my Perch deep diver back?

[carpmanjake]

Good going Jake. Add some one hooks to the crankbaits if needed. When I was growing upin New London, I would pull lures down off the trees over hanging the Crow river, easy way to fill up the box.

i ordered over $100 worth of trebels already

[carpmanjake]

Can I have my Perch deep diver back?

nah lol.

kinda funny what i found. why would people use deep divers in 5 FOW or less???

[carpmanjake]

Wow, just thing of the thousands of lures down there. Thats awesome! Were u using scuba gear or just diving?

diving, im not certified for scuba diving, plus the deepest area is only like 6 feet. so ya

[Deitz Dittrich]

$100 worth of trebles?.. Yikes.. no need to be spending that kind of coin in my opinion. I put new trebs on all my new cranks out of the box even usually and dont spend near that. I have found VMC Vandium to be very good for the price.. you can get them in a 25 pack for 6.49 at the store that rhymes with Schmabellas. Just thought I would let you know.

[carpmanjake]

$100 worth of trebles?.. Yikes.. no need to be spending that kind of coin in my opinion. I put new trebs on all my new cranks out of the box even usually and dont spend near that. I have found VMC Vandium to be very good for the price.. you can get them in a 25 pack for 6.49 at the store that rhymes with Schmabellas. Just thought I would let you know.

all the hooks i got were VMC barbarians. i got a total of 250. and i got 125 size 4 and 125 size 6. i got them for lure making, and i plan to keep diving and finding lures for a long time to come its really fun.

so i might as well have a bunch of replacements on hand

i still have to order some smaller hooks for countdowns and the other smaller cranks i got. i will probably only get a pack of each size then

i ordered them off cabelas BTW.

[pinkfloyd4ever]

thats cool

[S.D. Ice Angular]

WOW!!!

[trappingaddiction]

We had a "river day" today and I was walking in the river expirimenting things and stuff like that and I was walking and seen something shiny so I put my hand in the water and grabbed it and it was a orange spoon with black spots on it with almost brand new hooks, a liter and an extra swivel on it. You think that would be a good spot to go look for some lures (there is sand, silt, gravel, and some rock there)? BTW I found it in about 1-1.5 FOW.