Down the hole!

[Shorthair Guy]

Hey Putz sounds like your name fits you well. That is a great idea I think I will buy dad new skimmer and do the same for that. HaHa

[smellzalilfishee]

was holding up a 20 inch smallie when for no reason i just let my leatherman go in the other hand. also dropped my keys in once and spent 6 hours using a magnet to fish em out. now all of my pockets have zippers..

[steve schmidt]

More than once I have decided to re tie some mono leader on my fly rod as the old piece was getting short due to changing flies etc.

Popped my fly off, bit the line off, re tied new mono on and then grabbed the end of what I thought was the new mono line only to tie it on to the piece I bit off. Dropped my fly over the side of the boat, picked up my rod to start fishing only to discover I had just throwm my fly overboard with a short piece of mono. The good news is I tie all my own flies so it is never a major monetary loss.

[Guest]

Bunch of years back a buddy and I were fishing in a small portable the only thing we had for light was one of those large box type flash lights. One bounce on the ground and yep, right into the hole. It was a good quality flash light because we could see it lighting up the bottom of the lake.

Rush has not been good to me. Fishing with a goup of people off of cigar island somebody needed the scooper, well there wasn't much snow on the ice so I just slid it across the ice to the person that needed it. Yep, right down the hole.
Same lake, same location, different day. All done fishing when I was packing up, I had a small heater that you put on a 1 lb tank. Unscrewed it from the tank and yep right down the hole.

[Guest]

More,

Took my new springer puppy fishing for the first time, I get done drilling my first hole and I move to the next hole I hear a splash and look to see the dogs back legs in the first hole. I get her out dry her as much as possible, I start cleaning the holes out turn to clean the next one and hear another splash. I turn to see her *** end sticking out of the hole. That freaked me out, I grabbed her back legs and pull her out out the water. This is the same dog that fell off the back end of the boat in open water, we were anchored.
Now when I take her ice fishing I drill a hole just for her, she will splash and dig at the hole all day long. Not the smartest, but a good hunter.

[Guest]

I was just reading this the other day and.... yesterday dropped my motorola 2 way radio down the hole($150 gift)... oooops.. tryed to not let it ruin the day, we still had a good time and now I'll be looking for another radio now I guess... Man are these fish expensive ($/pound)... especially considering I rarely keep anything!

Live and learn I guess... I keep my cell phone, car keys, wallet, etc. secured in a zipped pocket for this reason... but I keep the radio near me because I'm using it a lot... Guess I'll need to tie this to my shack or something...

I was wondering if anyone has dropped their Aqua-vu or other camera down the hole??? That would be far worse... I noticed the aqua-vu would fit easily if it slid down just right...

[northerndirt]

we were up fishing winnie one sunny day in march a couple of years back with my brother and my 4 year old son, we had punched a bunch of holes, 10" auger before we had started fishing, i had started to clean out the first few holes to start fishing when all of a sudden i hear this ruckus behind me and when i turned to look you wouldn't believe the horror that came over me, you guessed it , my 4 year old son had went down one of the 10" holes up to his arm pits, talk about scaring the sh** out of a guy, WATCH YOUR SMALL CHILDREN AROUND THESE HOLES!!!!!

[Guest]

wur icing for paper mouths one evnun hadz one them thare gas coleman, packen up to leave, downz the holez it goez but herez warez it getz better , wur on duz same puddle thatz spring fishun the samez area and sawz somez strange glow , soez i putz on a dardevel lowerz it down andz retrivez my coleman still lit ,wow what a lantren and on 16oz propane bottle

[Guest]

Ya know, far be it from me to call a fellow fisherman a lier...but-ja-know that be a tiny bit tought to swaller, even for me?

[Guest]

ya furz gotz aboutz them thar mantles dead gevz away hy

[Guest]

I've gotten to where I use a lot of Duct Tape - LOL. I hold my glasses on with one of those gadgets made for doing that / I keep my C-Phone on a lanyard around my neck - fits inside my shirt or pocket, keeps it warm and always know where it's at, now drop - works great for me.

[Fisher Dave]

A couple years back while venturing out on Nokomis to see if anything was biting for a local angler. I was talking to the angler for a couple minutes and we had both noticed a smell that was obviously something burning. We both wrote it off as probably a home near by with a fireplace... Needless to say a few minutes later the guy noticed my flannel jacket was smoldering. Needless to say. I pulled the jacket off in a hurry, looked for something to extinguish it .. the ice hole was the 1st thing that came to mind.

The jacket extinguished, soaked, and ruined, I wished him luck and headed for the truck because I was cold in the 5 degree weather with no jacket. I got back to the truck to then realize that my truck keys were in the pocket of my jacket. They were no more, and no extra keys for the truck existed.... 30 minutes, 2 screwdrivers, a hammer, and 2 pairs of pliers I finally chipped out the steel steering coulmn on my older chevy pickup and drove home.

Ever since that day I wear my keys on a sturdy hook on my belt.

[Xplorer]

I had to post this story of the "one that didn't get away"
This occured this saturday at the FM lake trout get-together on Burntside lake near Ely. I was set up in 50' of water jigging two rods in my clam. I had a whisler jig working at about 32' and had a laker following it up from below. Now, i have a habit of hanging my 20 year old slush scoop from the top support bar in my clam to melt the ice off it. Well, you guessed it, the red bar met my whistler jig and i felt a bump and set the hook hard (missed the fish).
Of course my arm went up and the scoop came down, right down the hole I looked over on my vex and could see the red line going down the water column. Out of reflex i started to reel up and actually felt the jig hit the scoop at about 20' down but missed. Then I just opened my bail and let the jig freefall.
It seemed like forever, as i watched the thick red line go down and my thin green line follow it. The green line was catching up to the red line and then at about 40 it passed it. At 46' I stopped the jig and pulled up slightly to make the hook point up, and beyond belief, hooked the freakin scoop
Now i was using a pretty wimpy rod for lakers, but had powerpro on the spool. I ended up handlining the scoop up. When I got it about 10 below the hole i was even more suprised, as I had assumed the hook had caught one of the holes in the scoop part. But to my amazement, it had caught the curve of the handle!!!! I got it up the hole and just had to laugh.
I figured at that point that I had used up all my luck for the day, and headed back to the keg/basecamp shortly after (i did get one 3# laker earlier).
So, all that goes down the hole does not necessarily stay down the hole
Xplorer

PS: we did have one frs radio go down the hole early in the day, and reports are that a 10x10 shack can support 12 guys and a 16 gallon keg, but not 13 guys and a keg

[This message has been edited by Xplorer (edited 02-10-2003).]

[SpikeRoberts]

Just wanted to report that I joined the club this weekend. Actually I've been a long-time member in good standing, but this year I hadn't dropped anything of notice. Until Saturday -- Cell Phone $120 replacement fee. Spent a while trying to blind-snag the wriststrap but no luck. Oh well, now my dues are paid up for a while.

[Guest]

Saturday I was lowering the camera down the hole and saw a pair of sunglasses. Took a quick look on top of my hat and mine were missing. No big deal $10 pair. Went outside to grab a tip-up and caught a decent Northern. Brought it back to the portable, was handing it to my Dad and somehow I managed to put my keys in my other hand. Decided to hand him the fish with both hands and down the hole go the keys. Surprised the fish didn't go too. Took about 45 minutes and ruined prime time fishing. Eventually snagged the keys. Glad the camera had lights.

[Farley]

Was out this weekend and my buddy's girlfriend lost her phone while taking a burn on the cross country skis. She took his phone and started calling it and actually found it out on the middle of the lake. So she gives my buddy's phone back to him and we havent seen his phone since. It must of went down the hole or is burried in a foot of snow or something. When will they make a phone that floats for us clumsy fishermen?

[hattrk4me]

Friday night, cut my hole, leaned over to clean it and splash. My Mag-Lite goes down the hole. I stand up and hit my head on the ceiling of the portable and then I lean back over. Then Splash! I watch my container of lead shot go down.

[the big dipper]

This is one of the most entertaining subjects so far on this site.

Hey NorthernDirt, My buddy and I decided not to take the 10" with when we're taking our boys out. I guess I (like a lot of fishing dads) have had a few trips end short with a kid getting a wet foot. My buddy even ordered a 4" hand crank to use when he takes his boys.

Earlier in this thread I related the story of putting a 73 Jeep wagoneer thru in 10 ft deep water 300 yds from shore. The story continues:

After a couple of days of wondering how in the heck I was going to get that Jeep out of the lake, I went out and chainsawed a hole and spent most of a day trying to hook on to the bumper with a chain wired to a long popple stick - no luck. I then called a woman I knew that worked at the Sheriffs dept to see if she knew of any scuba divers. All she told me was that I had two weeks to get the Jeep out or I would be getting a big fine.(Great news..Thanks alot)

To make a long story short, I got a hold of a wet suit, a mask, and a weight belt, and went for a swim. I made about four dives and could not get the hook on the bumper. At this point, My Dad, Who was supervising the operation, said, "Get the hell out of that suit". He changed into that iced up wet suit right there on the ice, went down and hooked up on his first try. (I don't think I mentioned that it was his Wagonneer that was sitting on the bottom of the lake.)

My Grandpa George, who had gotten quite a few chuckles, and seemed to be the only one in the family to see any humor in the situation, (he'd put a model A ford through the ice on the same lake back in the 40's), took over supervising the operation at this point.

A few days later, he produced an old time stump puller. We went out and drilled a hole close to shore,and hammered an oak post through the ice and into the bottom for a dead man to hook the stump puller to. I spent the rest of the day heaving on the handle of this stump puller, and winching the jeep about 10 yards closer to shore under the ice. That stump puller was powerful but slow - for every heave on the handle the cable advanced about 1/4 of an inch.

The next day I conned a buddy who was home from college for the weekend out to the lake to help. While we were cutting and chipping a channel for the winching cable, I caught a baseball sized ice chunk square in the eyeball, and ended up in the hospital with a blindfold for 5 days. At least they gave me some really good pills to help me sleep.

When I got out of the hospital I hired the biggest tow truck I could find in the area, and we got the Jeep out the next day. (with the help of a couple of friends and neighbors).

[Guest]

If your out on Big Jay Gould and you hear a ringing noise, well then you should drop your hook down and try and get my cell phone back.

I was spearing in my house and i was closing up and droping my minnow bucket back down the hole, and the cap came off and so i bent down to grab the bucket, because my minnows were all getting out. Well i had my cell phone in my chest pocket so when i bent down it fell, and it didn't just fall straight down it was like a bird or an airplane gliding and it went about 10 ft out of my hole. I could see if for a little while then it was gone, completely gone. I blamed the whole thing on my dad because he had just bought a cheap minnow bucket and thats why it happened. The good news though, is that my parents bought me a new phone and every thing for christmas.

sweet huh

[Guest]

Here is my cell phone story. Last summer my brother bought a canoe. He invited me to go fishing in this honey hole of a lake that is almost totally surrounded by private homes. No ramp and no parking. The only way to fish it is by car top boat or canoe. We get the canoe loaded up and hop in. We get about ten yards from shore and we tip the thing over. We scramble and save all of our tackle and gear. Both of our cell phones went under and both were ruined.

I replaced that phone and suffered the scorn of my wife.

This winter I am putting out my ice fishing shack. We get it in place and my buddies take the trailer to go get another guys shack. I drilled the holes and I bent over to scoop them out and I had the phone in my chest pocket. Bloop, it went into the hole and floated just long enough to mock me. I dived for it and I actually touched it as it slowly sank.

My wife still hasn't quite forgiven me.

So I lost two of them in water related incidents in a little less than five months.

[Willowmaker]

The black hole. THat is what it is called by our fishing pack. One member's nickname is "SPLOOSH" because of two cell phones in two years and a set of keys and a few scoops. Myself this year 1 electronic ignition lantern,scoop,a rod&reel and a camoflage zippo lighter. Happy fishing.