Luckiest Retrieval ever!!!

[Grant]

several years ago working for Mosquito Control - I had one of the nextel's they issued us go in the swamp at least a dozen times during the season. all I ever did was disassemble the case on the phone, take the battery out and let it dry on the dashboard for an hour or two, and it worked good as new. because of that I try to get Moto's whenever possible.

[kaz2611]

several years ago i was fishing with a couple friends and had my checkbook work its way out of my pocket had some cash inside it well a strong wind came up and caught it just right opened it up and money was scattering out of the boat and into the lake we quick turned around and retrieved 130 bucks. now i dont bring my checkbook or wallet in the boat

[muc33]

I actually was a national semifinalist a couple years ago on The Outdoor Channels win your own fishing show contest with this story... and it is true! I had my daughter with on East Graham Lake near Kinbrae Mn. and just got started in a small 4x8 on skids. Drilled holes, started to bait rattle wheels, and baited first genz worm and dropped it in just as the lure went down the slush came up the hole... so i grabbed the skimmer and started to clean out the hole when my glasses fell off my face and bloooooop, right down the hole (or should I say 8 inch magnet) My daughter freaked out and started bawling thinking she was in trouble and I went shoulder deep trying to get them as they fell, to no avail. Well I called my buddies in another shack and of course they laughed and I sent them to the truck to get my camera to see if I could find them on the bottom... When I got done calling them I went back in the house to see a bobber down in that hole and thought to myself... GREAT!!!! now is the only time I don't want to catch a fish! as I pulled up on the line and felt no real tension I slowly pulled it up to see my best friend the fathead wrapped around the bridge of my glasses nosepiece and pulled them up into the house....!!!!! Swear to fish god's that is a true story and I had witnesses to prove it. Surely luckiest day for me on the hard water!!!

CC

[Captain B.R.K]

I haven't had the chance to have something like this happen to me, but I do have a story about my buddy. He had just bought a new Thorne Bros Panfish Sweetheart that week before we went fishing. We were on the ice and the wind was blowing a little bit. He had put his rod on his fishtrap seat, house was flipped open and he went to drill us some holes. Meanwhile I had my house flipped closed and one side window open. All of a sudden I see him sliding on the ice and in one whole motion his whole arm goes down the hole. I flip my house over quickly and see what the commotion was. The wind flipped his house over and his new rod went right down the hole

He ties on this big ugly lure and starts to jig his way to the TB rod. After several minutes he is able to snag the rod by one of the guides and he reels up his new rod. Wheww...I really felt bad, yet really good that he was able to get his rod back!

[catflisher]

not a retrieval but yatzee game.four sixes on the table in ice shack..one went bloop in the hole...drunks with aquaview located and confirmed six ond lake bottom....game over.....

[Scott M]

I've lost a flashlight (small penlight), a slush dipper, and a rod holder, and the only one I got back was the rod holder. I was fishing a small lake, we were hammering the crappies and bluegills. Friend and I can't keep the fish off. We are sharing a minnow on a third hole. The ice buster on the third hole is slowly sinking. I overexcitedly reach for it and grab it to set teh hook. I clumsily knock the stand over into my buddies hole. Oh well, $2.50....well, his line goes taught like a bite and wouldn't you know it, he hooked it. The only time I've gotten something back....

[dirtking]

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drunks with aquaview located and confirmed six on lake bottom

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now thats funny

[CrappieAttitude]

A lady at work gave me an older phone that she had upgraded. It turned out to be the exact same phone that I had. Took my SIM card out, plugged it in, said a little prayer and... lights on and I am back in business. So now I can still use my chargers and everything. Total cost...nothing!!

Has anyone invented a floating cell phone case yet? If so, I'll take two.

CA

[Ely Lake Expert]

A couple of summers ago I was out riding around in the boat with my oldest dirtiest hat I had, a swift wind came up and blew it off of my head into the lake. I just considered it gone. About 2 weeks later I was out trolling raps, snagged a big tree branch nearby where I lost my hat. Pull it up to take my rap off and there was my hat stuck on the tree branch. I still have it though its a closet hat now.

[Green&Gold]

They're out there. Just google "water proof cell phone cases." It should be the first one on the list. I think Nature Vision also used to sell them but I don't see them on their HSOforum anymore. I have 2 (after losing a phone and a 2-way down the hole). You can talk on them without taking the phone out.

[kobear]

I've "answered my phone in the rain" and had it "just quit". I was able to get a new one that way. Yes the battery showed it got wet but they understood, fiancee called, rainstorm, you know, really.

[CrappieAttitude]

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I've "answered my phone in the rain" and had it "just quit". I was able to get a new one that way. Yes the battery showed it got wet but they understood, fiancee called, rainstorm, you know, really.

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Good one!

I'll have to try that line out on the next time that this happens to me. I am sure that this wont be the last time something like this happens.

CA