The Black Hole

[hoggs222]

Personally, I've only lost small items.

People I was with have lost the TV remote, leatherman and their car keys. 3 hours later with the camera in 22' of water, the keys came up. We did have to chisel the hole over 2 feet, because nothing drops straight down and we had no way to move the house, since the truck keys were down 22'.

[Irish]

I have lost many things but two of the most memorable were a small shovel and a radio haha.

[lakeshoremunster]

Brother in law was tying up his brothers new latern onto one of the poles in our portable house and the chain must have sliped his hands and went right into the hole, didnt touch the ice at all. also have seen a buddy drop his cell in the hole, we were trout fishing and it must have sliped out of his pocket, we all saw it go in the hole and he had that look on his face, like no that didnt just happen, we laugh so hard at him.

I have only lost a scooper so far, hope thats all I lose.

[daylate]

30 years ago when I was about 10 and at my late grandfathers cabin I pulled up to his fish house on a snowmobile. It was very cold and I came bustin in and slammed the door hard behind me. He blamed it on the door slamming. but off the shelf went his prized antique ice fishing rod he had had since his early days of ice fishing, and of course it went right down the hole. Never heard the end of it until his last days. "I would be two ahead of you if I had that lucky pole you put down the hole!"

[stealth3350]

my dog

[mrklean]

once got the line to close the the coleman and it meled the line so i lost the lure, well about 20 min later while jigging i actually caught the jig i thought i lost, ended up just barley catching the line, one in a million right there

[bikeoutback]

Couple of metal ice scoops last year. Sent my leahterman wave down the hole last year, that sucked as I didn't even know it was gone till I got back to the truck but searched all around and didn't find it so I'm assuming it slid down the hole.

I probably would have lost keys at some point if I hadn't read enough on here about people losing keys. They either go from ignition right into a zipped pocket or just stay in the truck. Don't want to chance it.

[tsande00]

my dog

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[OnAFly]

yeah, no kidding. I would like to hear the story behind the dog!

[gators06]

yeah, no kidding. I would like to hear the story behind the dog!

Heard story back in the day of a guys black lab diving for a fish through a spearing hole and popping up in another houses hole close by. Not sure I can believe that on though...

[Irish]

I have also heard that story and I am pretty sure it is true because I read it in a book. I think it was on Mille Lacs...

[Woody61]

Only 2 things lost by me, a 40.00 rod and real( I stepped out of the tent for a sec and when I came back in I asked my buddy where did my rod go? oops, he never saw it go in).

Last year my garmin car gps with brand new lakemaster chip went down the hole.

[fishgutz77]

Metro and I were doing an overnighter years ago on Island lake at about -32 degrees.

Not kidding, coleman fuel would not light with an open flame on it.

In the middle of the night I heard a splash and thought something was coming up one of the holes but could find nothing wrong, so back to sleep I go.

The next morning I'm sending my jigg down the hole and see a white spot in the middle of my veiw. The Co2 detector had fallen off the ceiling and right down the black hole. The crazy thing is that we were in 27 fow and I could see it plain as day so I did take a pic. and I have it somewhere I just can't find it .

[CrappieNight]

Heard story back in the day of a guys black lab diving for a fish through a spearing hole and popping up in another houses hole close by. Not sure I can believe that on though...

[HandySpence]

I tied on my first chubby dart last year then bit the line with my teeth to get the excess off, tossed the lure down the hole to find out I bit the wrong line... mindly hilarious

[curtistodd]

My buddy owns a nice big permy. He called me one night and said he was starving because he cooked up a box of mac and cheese on the flip-down two burner stove, and somehow knocked the whole kettle full of hot mac and cheese down the hole and had nothing else to eat!

Another night he dropped a full ring of frozen deer sausage down the hole, and we ended up having to fry up rock bass we were so hungry!

[CAD]

Wedding ring. I was releasing a walleye back down the hole and with the cold and a little slime it just slipped right off and I watched it go down. No camera at the time so not much I could do. Never heard the end of it and I will probably hear about it again today as I get ready to go fishing.

[Lip_Ripper Guy]

I can think of only bad things that are bound to happen based upon any confirmation or denial of things that have or have not gone down the hole. I'll play it safe and go with "no comment".

[My_Key]

I lost a rod holder down a hole yesterday. I managed to snag it with my spoon. I also saw a girl tos the car keys to another girl quite a few years ago. As she was in the motion, I tried to say "I wouldn't do that", but before I could finish, the keys hit the floor and went right down the hole where the other girl was standing. The next day, my buddies uncle fished the keys out with a magnet. This was in the early 90's, before underwater cameras.

[mixxedbagg]

Nothing. I've never lost anything down an ice hole that I can remember at the moment. I can't believe it either.

Last year when this topic came up every other post was "cell phone". That's absolutely astonishing to me. When I go out, it's more fishing, less blabbing. Hope you guys aren't making the other people in your fish house listen to you!

A few questions

Why would you go fishing and spend the whole time answering to the wife/girlfriend?

Why would you even bring the thing or leave it on when you're trying to relax?

If you need noise, how 'bout an am/fm radio and a football game?

Why can't you guys hold on to your phones?

[mixxedbagg]

Oh yeah....the real reason I posted is to mention that I was fishing with my dad several years ago and he was chiseling out the hole with a new chisel. He lost his grip and chucked it right through the ice and it speared the bottom of Trout Lake (Coleraine), standing straight up in 23' of water. The lake is so clear that I could see it just fine. It took a long time, but I managed to hook the lanyard (which he should have been using!) with a treble hook on a parachute cord and retrieve it.

[panfishpounder00]

i lost my batteries tonite from my frabill lights, i should have known, that ole's law always wins! ..... what falls on the ice always will go down the hole!! had to make a store run to get more juice for the nite bite!!

[bogwalker]

Why is it that you can sit in a boat surrounded by water and not even think about losing anything. But sit near an 8" opening on a huge lake that is covered with ice and constantly be aware of anything that could fit down that hole and still lose stuff?

[Zoob]

Nothing. I've never lost anything down an ice hole that I can remember at the moment. I can't believe it either.

Last year when this topic came up every other post was "cell phone". That's absolutely astonishing to me. When I go out, it's more fishing, less blabbing. Hope you guys aren't making the other people in your fish house listen to you!

A few questions

Why would you go fishing and spend the whole time answering to the wife/girlfriend?

Why would you even bring the thing or leave it on when you're trying to relax?

If you need noise, how 'bout an am/fm radio and a football game?

Why can't you guys hold on to your phones?

My phone is also an FM radio and MP3 player, so it comes with me. I've learned, though, with my ice holes, I've cut a 5-gal pail into 1/3rds or 1/4ths, and use that as a sleeve on top of the hole, so if anything hits the ice and goes sliding around, it'll bounce off the side of the sleeve and not go into the hole.

Pack snow around the sleeve, and then drop in a thermal tipup as a cover over the hole, and it helps keep my holes from freezing from day to day, too.

[Finlander]

This isn't a "Black Hole" story but funny non the less!

My brother was tying on a jigging rap and attempts to bite off the tag end of the line, as he is trying to bite off the line and pulling on the jigging rap, the line gives way and sends the front end hook up and thru his nose like a pierced earing hangin there. It hurts just thinking about that!