I was about to ask how in the world do you do this? I would think after losing 1 phone I would do something to ensure it didn't happen again.

Geez get a bluetooth or something. SMH

Hats, new spinning rod/reel combo ($150), pliars, hook extractor, life jacket..... and my religion (just kidding about the religion).

A pair of Oakley TI SPikes $400
Ray Ban Sunglasses $200
A GoPro 4 With floaty attached and suction cup mount $500
A Backpack full of Baits, weights, hooks, plastics, pliers, scissors, extra line, (While fishing a draw tournament it blew out back of boat).
A couple hats
flip flops

Sunglasses, Hats and lures don't count. They're supposed to go in the water. I lost a $300.00 rig once ( a lot for me ) and sat there with a heavy jig until I fished it out. The dude with the chain saw wins.

I caught a women's purse at Richland Chambers. I thought I had caught something valuable that the person would want back. I bet it had 50 packages of faded out stick worms in it.

$500 worth of glasses!

Two rods and reels (luckily not expensive ones), measuring stick, net, hat, lower unit (Lake Fork stump), bunches of lures and a plug knocker. Not too bad based on the other postings.

"Caught" a folding chair. Hardest "fight" I've ever had. Also caught the top of a bikini.

Wish I was there when that bikini top was "lost" lol

I had a kilter lta and a curado slingshot out of my hand to the bottom of Falcon trying to break off 25 lb floruo.

I'm on the water a lot and most my work is done over the phone Also for the last two 2/3 years I've had two phones I just had to go upgrade again



Lol! Sorry man

What's the story on amphibian? I've lost mine going down the lake twice and went back and found them floating

Every couple months a post like this pops up and it's enough to keep me motivated to strap down the trolling motor before a run and to be ultra cautious of deck mounted rod bungees A.K.A rod launchers.

A fairly high dollar rod and reel sits at the bottom of Squaw Creek courtesy of a crank bait getting hung on a windshield of a Ranger 373V. I have a friend who lost a huge tackle bag and 20+ years worth of tackle to the bottom of Rayburn somewhere in the vicinity of Cassels-Boykin Ramp. A Goretex Ranger Cap at he bottom of Strom Thurman Reservior, and several pairs of sunglasses at a bunch of different lakes.

I witnessed a few of my buddies losing gear.

I was fishing fork maybe 10 years ago. I was a backseater and my partner somehow managed to launch his rod and reel on a cast into Lake Fork near some deep water we were Carolina rigging. He just bent down and got another rod and started fishing a jig. I mentioned the lost rod and he just said "Oh you saw that?" I asked him if he wanted to try and recover it he just said "Na it was old anyway. I need to get a new rig anyhow" and kept fishing. This same guy knocked two rods and reels off his boat also on Fork. We were in heavy timber. We tried for awhile but never recovered them.

I was fishing Kickapoo (Palestine) several years ago and another fishing buddy measured a fish and proceeded to throw the measuring board in the lake instead of the short fish. He just groaned stripped down to his skives got in the water (maybe three feet deep) and found the board (we needed it as we were only about an hour into the tournament). A few fish later this same guy unhooked another small fish and for some reason threw the pliers into the lake and was still holding the fish. The water was deeper so he did not even consider trying to get them back.