Magnet Fishing

[Deker 3,478]

Anyone involved?

It seems a bit of fun so I thought I'd invest in a magnet and a bit of string!

eBay has plenty of choice, it seems pretty straight forward, any hits and tips?

Cheers

[Fellman Mark 612]

I’ve been a few times found the magnets off eBay were shit got mine from online magnets miles better

[Daniel cain 47,396]

I keep one in my fishing bag and back of the truck..handy for pulling snags out of your swim..I've had feeders, microwaves,pushbikes,old safe,old  gearboxes ,axles and a cbr600 is my best find so far

[Deker 3,478]

18 minutes ago, Fellman Mark said:

I’ve been a few times found the magnets off eBay were shit got mine from online magnets miles better

Thanks for that, what sort of weight pull is a good place to start, I was thinking somewhere 60-100kg??

This is just for fun (at least to start with) I don't want/need enough power to lift a Safe.

Cheers

Edit...how close to advertised pull weight do you think they are, i.e. is a 100kg really 100kg or more like 50kg?

Edited April 24, 2023 by Deker

[Daniel cain 47,396]

A decent set of chest waders are handy,incase you have to get in and drag stuff out

[Deker 3,478]

26 minutes ago, Daniel cain said:

I keep one in my fishing bag and back of the truck..handy for pulling snags out of your swim..I've had feeders, microwaves,pushbikes,old safe,old  gearboxes ,axles and a cbr600 is my best find so far

What sort of pull weight do you use and how close to advertised pull weights do you think they are?

Cheers

Edited April 24, 2023 by Deker

[Daniel cain 47,396]

2 hours ago, Deker said:

As above really, what sort of pull weight do you use and how close to advertised pull weights do you think they are?

Cheers

I got a little tiny thing,size of a Rollo lifts 25)30 kg handy if you drop something in the margins when fishing..the bigger is rated to 300kg...most of the time stuffs buried and full of silt etc so I couldn't really say about advertised pull weights,my pal has a couple,we used 2 to drag out the Honda

[forest of dean redneck 11,924]

There’s a fella does this in the stour at blandford had some interesting stuff including a ww2 grenade .

[Gypsydog94 4,659]

I would get fed up pulling out shopping trolleys what’s the rules with magnet fishing? Assuming you can’t just Chuck the rubbish you find back

[Daniel cain 47,396]

1 hour ago, Gypsydog94 said:

I would get fed up pulling out shopping trolleys what’s the rules with magnet fishing? Assuming you can’t just Chuck the rubbish you find back

get enough and weight it in

[paulus 26]

Tried it a few times on the local canal, Multiple road signs, bike frames, even part of an old 410 hammer gun, never did find anything of value, 

[Daniel cain 47,396]

no fishing clubs gonna moan,if you go along dragging out all the shit and leaving what you don't want on the bank in a neat pile

 

I would recommend getting some sort of permission from who ever owns the bank just to cover your arse like..

[paulus 26]

1 hour ago, Gypsydog94 said:

I would get fed up pulling out shopping trolleys what’s the rules with magnet fishing? Assuming you can’t just Chuck the rubbish you find back

Just left it on the bank on the advice of the friends of the canal i was doing it, they collected and disposed of it. They were happy when i found the bridge number plaque though. 

[Daniel cain 47,396]

1 minute ago, paulus said:

Tried it a few times on the local canal, Multiple road signs, bike frames, even part of an old 410 hammer gun, never did find anything of value, 

Theres a load of tidal Rene's/canals by us...for yrs the older leads were out robbing motorbikes,stripping and throwing the frames in this one section....filled a tipper every day for 3 days and weighed them all in,few yrs back,we used grappling hooks didn't need magnets

[gnasher16 30,812]

Bet theres a few peoples arses twitching if " magnet fishing " becomes a fad....." what do you mean you can take dna off a blade thats been under water for 10 years "