Rod pulled in!

[bobcullen79 1,495]

Ive been sneaking onto a loverly small weedy pond that belonged/belongs to portsmouth football club,and since their demise,have stopped looking after it,its about 2 acres and packed with weed from the bottom to the top. Ive been doing really well on there,I love this place. Went down thursday with a small rake to enlarge the holes in the margins I fish,intending to fish friday. well after a bit of raking,I got the bug and had to nip home for my kit,I couldnt resist doing the night. Got back and set up by 3.30pm,one in the left margin and one in the right. A few hours had passed with nothing more than a couple of liners,then my mate in the next swim had a bream. Not worried,I began to wonder if i`d f****d it by doing the raking earlier. Staring at the water I noticed loads of fizzing over both baits,and I said to my mate "thats gonna go in a minute" then "probably a big shoal of bream" When all of a sudden Whoosh,the left rod and reel looked like a speargun being shot into the lake. It was so fast and aggresive I didnt even have time to stand up. Never seen anything like it,Ive seen rods go or get dragged,but this was something else. Any way packed up by 8.30 and lucky my mates got a tranny van, I went and picked up a fibre glass dingy. Searched for it til 11pm with no joy,but there was 4 fishing chavs seen it happen,so I was back there raking by 7am yesterday and after mountains of weed I found it at 11am in a lilly pad patch 2 swims to the left of where I was fishing,no fish attached-I had light leads,with clips and tubing up the line so the fish should be fine. So Im well happy I got £300 worth of kit back and now I know a bit more about the lake bed. I no longer rate solar extendable buzz bars and the matrix snag ears didnt do much either. Tightlines everyone.

P.S Anyone know if the rod will be ok after 17 hours submerged,once it dries out?

 

 

[watchman 256]

glad you got it back,me and a mate fished a 5 acre lake years ago both sitting there swinging the lantern over a few beers like you do,just getting dark and very foggy as you say one second the rod was there then it was gone,we stared at each other in disbelief then pissed our selves laughing,i went on to get a run in the early hours,played in two fish,one had taken my bait and snagged on my mates rod,both fish released and recovered everything he had lost.he soon got the hang of bait runners after that little episode,happy days

[ratattack 111]

Lol i pulled in a rather nice shimano rod and 10000 xtea shimano reel with a nice mirror carp attached to it when pike fishing once!! Hahaha silly numpty had forgot to put the baitrunner on!!!!! That reel and rod were fine after their swimming trip and i still use them for my piking now

[Guest bullterrier]

never had a rod pulled in myself but some fella fishing the method feed rod go in the lake i always keep hold of my rod when fishing the method feeder because it only takes a secondand its gone .. .john

[RaiderBoy 19]

My old man forgot to put the bait runner on a rod once and we didnt spot it had gone until the rod floated past my swim We managed to get it back by casting the rod i was rebaiting over it, we didnt land the fish but we got the rod back. the rod was fine but the reel needed to be cleaned and re lubed afterwards.

 

Richard

[crazycanuck 3]

We lose the odd rod here and there while ice fishing for pike but that's a different game all together. Rod is sitting right over the hole. If it's a good fish and it hits hard, you'd better be standing close by. Never been lucky enough to get one back though!

As as side note, i saw a guy catch a 12lb carp through the ice this winter. Very rare to see this, and he wasn't fishing for carp but it was interesting. He thought he'd hooked a monster pike. ended up drilling two more holes overlapping his original hole in order to land it.

[fireman 11,033]

I had a set up pulled in from Boscombe Pier by a jet skier once,turned the air blue a little i did but a smooth sea bed and a set of feathers on my other rod saw it hooked back in.Did go get 20 quid of the bloke for my hassles afterwards mind,lol.