diving for lures

[carpmanjake]

drrodey, his son, and i took a fishing trip to the sauk river yesterday,

one of the many snags we found

we found a total of 81 crankbaits, 21 spoons, 5 spinnerbaits, and almost 2lbs of lead

[mainbutter]

Awesome, just awesome.

I'm going to bring my goggles along on my next river trip.

[coombia21]

What were they all snagged on? What part of the river were you on?

[carpmanjake]

What were they all snagged on? What part of the river were you on?

mainly snagging on eachothers lines. its like webs of line down there! follow one line, and you find more, follwow that one and find more! its quite fun, pulling up matts of fishing line full of lures

[tweedlap]

Jake,

Great job on the river clean up ! Looks pretty rewarding, too.

tweed

[deadeye]

Well you don't have to buy cranks for a while LOL. Nice job on the cleanup.

[carpmanjake]

Well you don't have to buy cranks for a while LOL. Nice job on the cleanup.

i havent bought a crankbait for over 2 years. lol. i did the same thing last year, except i got to keep them all.

me and dan are splitting these 60/40

[jigginjim]

You could maybe sell them at flee markets or on-line. My neighbor has been selling older crankbaits 1/2 have they sold for and rods and reels at flee markets. so far he is made about $300 in 4 weeks or 4 days. The flee markets are only running for half days.

[Ed Carlson]

The worst snags are balls of old fishing line, especially on rivers. Carpet is another...and old sandbags..they suck too.

I "Mark" nasty snags and then harvest them with a Frabill Lure Retriever.

Once found...then you just extend and screw that retriever into a ball of line, and you get the whole wad and whatever is caught up in it. Scored some huge finds of cranks this way on popular spots on the rivers I fish.

One can pay for a $29 Frabill lure retriever preaty darn quickly that way.

[Wish-I-Were-Fishn]

Proof why you should never wade bare footed!

[JBMasterAngler]

Carpmanjake, if you ever search the bottom of cedar lake, keep an eye out for my wedding ring It's in the beach area somewhere.

[mrklean]

do you maing just hit the rocky areas or is there certian stuff you look for

[carpmanjake]

do you maing just hit the rocky areas or is there certian stuff you look for

just wade around in the river, until you feel fishing line. i dont focuse on any certain areas.

[Sherpa]

Carpmanjake, if you ever search the bottom of cedar lake, keep an eye out for my wedding ring It's in the beach area somewhere.

That's rough man. My brother just lost his in Lake Nebagemon near superior, WI. The funny part about it was that he wasn't worried that the wife was going to be mad as much as he was about buying a new $300 ring.

I still remember the pics you posted a while ago with all of the lures you found carpman.I really need to get out there and try this.

[fishinfey8]

How do you avoid getting hooked when finding and pulling up the snag off bottom??

That's awesome though...looks like some are still in good shape!

[Acemac]

best part about the bike is the 50 bucks worth of lures hanging off it...

[Shack]

Very Cool Jake!

If nobody has notice, Jake does this once or twice a year and makes a killing every time! Personally I thought one of your hauls last years yielded more product than this. Could be wrong.

Always very cool! Thanks for sharing.

[broken_line]

thats awsome! (: my dad had a buddie back in high school that threw a box spring mattres with cable to pull it out and take lures out of it about everymonth

[goblueM]

seems like an enterprising person could put some man-made snags down in a known bank location and "harvest" the bounty the following summer

[pushbutton]

i was thinking the exact same thing...did not post it because i also can imagine someone actually doing it

[RumRiverRat]

Absolutely crazy!

[vikingmeatwad]

Wow, nice finds there!

I really hope no one would actually put anything out there to cause snags for people, it sure wouldn't surprise me though.

[curtistodd]

Gawd thats awesome! My girlfriend did some diving for lures on a rock bar a few years ago and to my surprise swam up with a 10lb boat anchor with some rope! It had 5 or 6 lures/jigs on it. We use the anchor to this day. Nothing like your haul though! Nice work.