I watched it live and actually thought it was a dangerous risk to take. I'm surprised nobody advised against it in 55-57 degree water, main lake with waves. He was very lucky the fish swam out cause if he would've dove down to get it anything could happen. Imagine something terrible happening like getting caught on a trotline in that pile or something weird like that and drowning on live.
I totally agree. I lost an anchor at jetties one time and had lost 2 in previous weeks so I decided its a nice hot summer day, Ill aqua man it. The haywire bale of mono, hooks, cast nets etc all around it quickly made me change my mind about that and again this was summer time.
I thought same about him not coming back up if he went down, I did not see him grab a dexter russel like you see a lot of guys have in a scabbard on their chest on shows like deadliest catch. These have saved more than a few lives for those who have the cool head to cut themselves out. I know 1 personally.