Luckiest Retrieval ever!!!

[CrappieAttitude]

I was out fishing on Saturday and managed to drop wy cell phone into 30 fow It all happend when we were getting ready to pack up. My leather case managed to slide off my belt while I was sitting and as soon as I stood up...Sploosh righ dead center. No bounce, nothing but net. So I was completely bummed. It was dark an I figured I'll never get that back. So on Sunday, I thought I would go out with my aqua vu and an big airplane jig and see if I could get lucky. I dropped the camere down and wasn't able to see much of anything. So i brought up the camera and pounded the bottem with it and low and behold I snagged my leather case. All this took about 10 minutes. I brought it home and dried it out in white rice first for about a day and then my boot warmer. All of the moisture came out of the screen, but it is a goner. The buttons light up when it is plugged in, but nothing in the screen. I am going to bring it back this afternoon and see what if anything can be done. I was just curious as to if anyone else has a retrieval story from accidental hole droppings.

CA

[slotlimit]

I have retrieved my Coleman Lantern and my fishing pole that a fish took down the hole while I went to see what time it was in the truck. Good Old Five of Diamonds snagged them both.

[kaz2611]

this wasnt a retrieval but it relates to dropping something down the hole. My cousin and i were ice fishing one year early ice. we were in approx 8ft of water he was outside trying to hook up lights i had a fish on so i had small flashlight in my mouth when he asked me a question naturally without thinking i answered him and SPLOOSH! SOB i said he sasy what i said i just lost my fish and my flashlight and your not gonna believe it he started laughing. well the flashlight hit the water perfectly upright so when became submerged pressure was equal on all sides therefore remained upright as it stuck in the silt in the bottom the light remained on for 2 hours we had a bright glow under our house and several people inquired what it was and proceeded to laugh when i explained to them. 2 hours later minus 1 flashlight and not another bite we went home.

[hill7410]

I was on mille lacs and i went outside to break the seal, i come back in and my new st.croix rod and flueger reel was gone. I drilled about 6 holes around the center hole, dropped the aqua view down and i could see it. dropped a trouble hook and snaged it through the eye, i was pulling it up and on the other end was a 7lb eel pout. just like getting a benjamin back in my pocket.

[fisherjmb]

In January my father and I were up at LOTW. He dropped one of our new two-way radios down the hole. After sitting there bummed for a few minutes we notice the bobber going down on one of his rods. Thinking it is a fish he sets the hook and begins reeling. He kept saying "this fish isn't fighting much at all". Pulls it out of the hole and sure enough it's his two way radio. Apparently what happened the clip on the back of the radio slid down his line and when it got to his jig it got caught and pulled the bobber down. We were in 33' of water. Got everything dried out and it still works. I was quite amazed.

[Fish Head]

On LOTW last year I pulled up an 18" walleye that had another hook in the corner of his mouth with line. I pulled it up and sure enough there was someones rod and reel.

I was on Mille Lacs about a month ago and one of the guys with us brought up his wife's cell phone instead of his. Can you guess what happend? Of course..... it fell down the hole. We could see it clear as day on the camera, but couldn't hook it.

[Blake]

Crappieattitude....As a pro at losing cell phones down icehole(3 to date), I will tell you not to waste much time retrieving them....they are done,finished,gone!!! The 1st one I lost, the 2nd I retrieved with help of aqua-view and treble hook,never worked again even for a second,and the 3rd, after some much foul language directed mainly at myself , I decided to get over it....besides, like my buddy said....its looks kinda purdy laying on that bed of grass at 30feet(with aquaview)....they have some panel in them that gets wrecked when submerged....one guy said to retrieve it and take it back to store and tell them it quit working, but they know when its been submerged evidently.

However I have a crazy knack at retrieving rods and reels through the ice. I think I have retrieved 3 to date. all thru the ice

[GRAND DAD]

Crappieattitude I pretty much had the same thing happen to my but instead of a cell phone I droped my 9mm down the hole I was going outside to releave my self and grabed my jacket witch my 9mm was on top of and it all happened in slow mo right down the hole I ran around in circles freaking out got a hold of my self grabed my rod with my trusty Angle eye jr droped it down and got it on the first try thank god it was in a sholder holster got cought right a way.

[Fish&Fowl]

All I know is when (not if) stuff falls down a hole, it's always nothing but net. Just dropped a walkie-talkie down the hole a couple weeks ago and there was so bounce or anything to give me time to react, just a sploosh.

[jiggin pig]

Grand Dad, the 9mm must be for the really big ones! I like the 40 cal personally. lol. thats a good one. Imagine if you had a round chambered and it went down the hole. that would be a interesting retrevial.

[Dances with Walleye]

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On LOTW last year I pulled up an 18" walleye that had another hook in the corner of his mouth with line. I pulled it up and sure enough there was someones rod and reel.

I was on Mille Lacs about a month ago and one of the guys with us brought up his wife's cell phone instead of his. Can you guess what happend? Of course..... it fell down the hole. We could see it clear as day on the camera, but couldn't hook it.

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Two Summers ago I was on this po-dunk lake near Longville...

I caught a pike, who had 2 lures still stuck in his face and a jig deep in his mouth.

The one lure was worthless, as was the jig... But the Perch Shad rap was brand new... (Only had like 4 pound test tied to it) So I kept it...

Named the fish "Snaggle Face"

[CrappieAttitude]

I went and brought my phone in this afternoon and to my surprise not one of them felt impressed enough with my fishing skills to replace my phone at no cost. So without insurance, and only a year into my contract, there are no bonus points that I can use to "upgrade". So now I need to decide if I want to drop a minimum of $100 on a new one, or try to see if any co-workers have an old reliable for me to use for the time being. They said that if I can find a phone that takes the same SIM card, it would be a matter of plugging mine in and away we go. (that is if my SIM card isn't fried) So all in all it might be a total loss and I might have to get an advancement in my allowance from my wife and bite the bullet.

CA

PS did you know that they have a way to tell if the phone was submerged or not? The next time that you take your battery out of your phone look for a little white circle. If at any point that white circle is RED (like it was in my case) you are SOL

[LEECH21]

My wife dropped her cell phone into Green Lake last summer off the pontoon. Found it about 2 hours later in about 10 ft of water. I dove down and grabbed it. She took it apart and dried it out overnight....The next day it worked like a charm!!!

Still works to this day. Miracles do happen!

[Blake]

yup...they know!!!

[Tippman]

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PS did you know that they have a way to tell if the phone was submerged or not? The next time that you take your battery out of your phone look for a little white circle. If at any point that white circle is RED (like it was in my case) you are SOL

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I surgically removed this sticker and replaced it with my brothers (he had the same phone)after mine took a dive. Worked like a charm as I got a new phone.

[EatSleepFish]

last sunday on mille lacs i was setting up my new eskimo grand caravan portable shack, when attempting to snap in the last metal support rod sure nough it slipped out of my grasp and nope no bounce or nothing. bullseye! kerplunk! right down the hole! reminded me of a spear being thrown down the spear hole. those suckers fly! also last summer i went swimming with my cellphone in my shorts pocket for about 15 minutes straight and when i got back to the cabin i took a hairdryer to it and it worked just fine a few days later.

[The Grebe]

Had a kinda odd happening last week on Mille Lacs...nothing as exotic as dropping my cell phone, or a pistol down the hole, but I was fishing with a Buckshot Rattler and for me, thats an expensive lure! My stuff usually consists of 99 cent Demons.

Well, I got a hit, set the hook and felt a good fish on the business end. The rod bowed, the drag squealed and the line popped, there went my Buckshot!

About 2 hours later, while hole hopping, I dropped a lead depth finder down a hole to make sure that my slip knot hadn't moved and when I pulled it up, there was some line sticking to the thing? I got ahold of it and hand over handed it in and there was my missing Buckshot! What are the chances?

Last night I set the hook on a sunnie and pop, the line snapped at the rod tip....the hook set must have stunned the sunnie momentarily, cause I could see the line in the water. I made a grab for it and proceeded to haul in a nice 8 inch bluegill that should have left while he had a chance!

[Bassman]

One good fishing storys that I have is fishing in my cousins canoe and we are casting. Then my cousins hand was wet or something and his poll flew straight out of his hands and then my brother and cousin stand up in the canoe which rocked it a little. after they sit down my brother starts reeling up and he says I got something so he reels it up and sees the line on his rapala so we pulled up all the string because the bail was open still and got it back. That is one of my retrival storys.

[Bassman]

One more thing to crappieattitude I would look around on hsolist for an unlocked phone. some go for about Ten dollars for a cheep one.

[aczr2k]

About a month ago we were up on LOW and my buddy was busy doing something and splash his rod goes down the hole. After about an hour, my other buddy in the middle of the house was messing around with his line, and he pulled up another bobber?? Here he had snagged the other line and he pulled up the rod with a little 8" dink walleye on it. Must have had enough power to pull the rod down the hole but when it hit the bottom of the lake he wasn't able to pull the rod around.

[riverrat56]

Lost a rapala one day trolling for northerns, decided to drop anchor and fish for sunnies, pulled up the anchor to leave and there was the rapala.

Dropped my keys to the bottom of the lake 2 hours from home, fished them bad boys outta there like nobodys business and then told them never to do that to me again.

[bluehat28]

Just last weekend I was up on Red lake, I was searching for crappies,drilling lots of holes.With depth finder,rod and slusher in hand I tripped and dropped the slusher right down the hole.After duct taping a gaff to a 15' pole first time down was able to grab the handle an came up the same hole it went down. More than the fish could do.

[minnow_03]

I was out fishing this year on one of those really cold days. We were fishing outside because we had snowmobiled to the lake and kept breaking off our our lines. We probabally lost a half dozen lures. When we were cleaning the fish, one walleye had something hard in it's stomach. I cut it open and there was a buckshot inside.

[Gadgetman]

took my small son out fishing a couple of years ago and he dropped his gameboy down the hole in about 13 fow. He was very bummed. Went back the next day and drilled three more holes making for one large hole, took the golf ball retriever and taped a small landing net onto it, fished it out on the first try. Dried it out and it worked fine minus the sound, which actually made me very happy. about 6 months later it crapped out, something must have slowly corroded inside

[reelguy]

Last years spring Canada trip got me. We were fishing about 7 fow when I accidentaly dropped my vex in the water (I'm too cheap to buy a mount for the boat so I use my winter pro pack and set it next to the minkota). Luckly I had brought the Aquaview that day.

After about 30 minutes of searching around the marker bouy I threw out, I finally saw it on the camera. I dropped the camera in the mud and and fed cord until we could get anchored. Dropped my pants and hopped into the water (keep in mind it was the 1st week in June in Ontario. brrrrrrr ) I made two dives and was out of breath due to the cold so, my buddy hopped in and made two dives as well and snaged the puck and pulled her up. When it came out of the water she was still running and hasn't quit since!