12/27 and 12/28 . tragic humor and some success

[toothyfishman]

I got a net on the bottom at Chautauqua as well

[Gcain]

I got a net on the bottom at Chautauqua as well

Time for me to take my SCUBA class!

[gfishes]

Lots of good stories here. I'll add another that ended more positively. We were ice fishing walleye spoons on Lake Erie in 30 fow. I had a fish on and yelled to my Dad to come over and help me gaff the fish.(30" of ice in 2014!) When he bent down to the hole his eyeglasses came off and went right down the hole. We landed the fish, chalked is up as a loss and continued on. My Dad walked back to his shanty about 20 feet away and started jigging. He noticed on his flasher that he had a mark down by his lure. He felt something on the line and reeled in his glasses! Either the glasses descended at an angle or the slight current pulled them into the line and they slid down to the lure. Either way, pretty lucky!

[Red Childress]

That is some crazy stuff right there.


I will add another once-in-a-lifetime occurrence. The short version......I was trolling a perchbait in January and lost it on a snag in about 28 FOW. (It was my last one in that color and had a few dozen fish under its belt.) 2 weeks later I get a package in the mail and it is the very same perchbait (with hooks removed for easier mailing). The same guy I had with me that weekend had come back to fish that area on his own the following weekend. Yep, you guessed it.........he snagged my lure with another lure and got it free then had the decency to mail it back to me. You just cannot make this stuff up.

[Gcain]

I was casting around the Power Boat Club- Tom's Pt. area this summer. Saw something floating about 30' away. Figured it was trash but got close to it and found a 2019 signed Baker Goldie floating with a short heavy fluoro leader still attached to about 10' of powerpro. SCORE for me but someone had to be bummed about losing that one!